Arsenal News Archives: 07/2016

Lyon have rejected a €35m bid from Arsenal for Alexandre Lacazette.

Monday saw the Gunners jet off to the USA, as well as more developments in a few transfer stories.

Former Gunner, Kolo Toure, has signed for Celtic on a one-year deal.

Arsenal have embarked on their US tour but they’re missing a vital person: our rumoured new captain, Per Mertesacker.

Mesut Ozil is still enjoying his summer break after playing in the Euro 2016 semi-finals and it appears he’s hanging out with Liverpool’s Emra Can and Schalke’s Leroy Sane.

Despite only signing for Kazakhstan club, Kairat, in March of this year, Andrey Arshavin has already made 21 appearances for his new club.

Stan Collymore had some choice words for Arsene Wenger in his column for the Sunday Mirror.

Takuma Asano will not travel to Rio with the Japanese Olympic team prompting speculation that he will be swinging past Arsenal to get a few snaps of him in an Arsenal kit first on his way to Brazil.

Plenty of youngsters were given some minutes during our 1-1 pre-season draw against Ligue 2 side Lens on Friday evening, so how did they do?

Alexander Hleb has returned to his hometown club, BATE Borisov, for what will be his fourth spell at the club.

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that he is trying to bring a forward and a defender before the transfer window shuts at the end of August.

It seems like a weekend isn’t complete these days without some sort of crazy transfer speculation. Here’s the latest.

Graphic to celebrate 10 years since Dennis Bergkamp opened the Emirates

Tony Adams has turned down the chance to coach Arsenal’s u18 side after years of moaning that there was no role for him at the club.

As the new season approaches and pre-season gets underway, most Arsenal fans have one massive eye on the transfer window as they hope to see the club land a massive striker signing

Arsene Wenger has moved to calm fans after they got a little angry with Ivan Gazidis’s recent comments that indicated there wouldn’t be much more spending this summer.

Per Mertesacker has revealed that Arsene Wenger has not yet made a decision on who will replace Mikel Arteta as Arsenal captain or, if he has, he hasn’t told anyone.

Liverpool have snapped up former Arsenal keeper, Alex Manninger on a free transfer.

Since we love a Friday announcement, Arsenal chose today to confirm the signing of Rob Holding. Oh yeah, and we played RC Lens.

Rob Holding has been given the #16 shirt, Aaron Ramsey’s old number, according to the Arsenal website.