Arsenal News Archives: 09/2016

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has spoken about turning 23 and his new, potentially murderous approach to football.

Arsene Wenger revealed that he’s targeting the top of our Champions League group and so he should.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Carl Jenkinson and Mathieu Debuchy were all in Arsenal training ahead of our Champions League clash with Basel on Wednesday.

Arsene Wenger is wary of Basel after the Swiss team beat both Manchester United and Chelsea in recent years.

On Tuesday morning, the news that Sam Allardyce’s job as England manager was hanging in the balance due to a secretly filmed alleged conversation about side-stepping the third party ownership rule and naturally, Arsene Wenger was asked about it.

Mauricio Pochettino claims he’s had good news about Harry Kane’s ankle ligament injury and the striker could return as soon as the North London Derby.

Olympics gold medalist, Mo Farah, has spoken about his relationship with Arsenal in a recent interview with The Sunday Times Magazine and even admitted he’d love to work with our fitness coach one day.

Arsenal and Reading fans will pay just £10 or £20 (or £5/£10 if under 16 or over 65) for the EFL cup game on 25 October.

Both Arsenal and Tottenham had one player each in the European Team of the Week with Chelsea, unsurprisingly, not contributing anything to the conversation.

As expected, Manchester City defeated Chelsea 2-0 on Sunday and were crowned champions for the first time, so what next for Arsenal ladies?

Wojciech Szczesny was on the losing side as Roma suffered a surprise 3-1 away defeat at the hands of Torino on Sunday afternoon.

Arsenal’s u23s earned a hard-fought three points against Chelsea on Friday night in the revamped Premier League 2.

Arsène Wenger has said that our 3-0 home victory over Chelsea should give the players “the taste to want more” over the coming months with plenty of important fixtures coming thick-and-fast in all competitions.

After their unbeaten start to the campaign was ended by Chelsea last weekend, Arsenal’s u18 side returned to winning ways in emphatic style with a fantastic 5-0 thrashing over Leicester City on Saturday.

Carl Jenkinson is set to return to first team training on Monday and, on Sunday night, the rightback said he felt like a kid on Christmas Eve.

Eddie Howe has publicly shown his belief that Jack Wilshere can be a brilliant player for Bournemouth whilst on loan with the Cherries this season.

Alex Iwobi has emerged on the first-team scene this year and is currently enjoying his football, competing against the top sides and keeping a composed head on very talented shoulders.

Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba, couldn’t resist getting in a light-hearted dig after Arsenal beat his former team 3-0 on Saturday.

Rio Ferdinand believes the key to Arsenal’s continued success needs to be the likes of Theo Walcott getting behind the young, more inexperienced players.

Alex Iwobi won Man of the Match for his performance against Chelsea during Arsenal’s 3-0 win on Saturday.