Arsenal News Archives: 05/2020

James Olayinka could end up with the rather bizarre loan record of one appearance and one Man-of-the-Match award if the League Two season ends early.

The 2019-20 Premier League season could restart in June after clubs and league officials agreed stage one of Project Restart on Monday – small group training sessions.

Olivier Giroud has agreed to remain at Chelsea despite it seeming like the former Arsenal favourite would be leaving the club this summer.

Granit Xhaka admits he held talks with Hertha Berlin ahead of the January transfer window, but Mikel Arteta convinced him to stay.

Despite the FA sending out a lengthy email that basically said ‘hang on, we’re still discussing it’, the FA WSL is set to be cancelled although the final standings/outcome has yet to be determined.

Former Arsenal physio, Gary Lewin, believes that the Premier League restart should be pushed back to June 26 at the earliest as players start to voice fears over injury concerns.

Arsenal have told the media that they will deal with Alexandre Lacazette internally as a ‘private matter’ after the Daily Star made a massive deal of the player doing something totally legal.

Arsenal have reportedly agreed a new contract with goalkeeper James Hillson who is expected to be sent out on loan next season.

Arsenal have reportedly made sure that their sports psychologists are on call for Academy players, a move that surely seems sensible regardless of any pandemic.

Alex Iwobi’s nickname, ‘Big 45’, emerged at Arsenal, and the former Arsenal fan favourite has been speaking about it and some of his favourite career moments.

Unai Emery is back again blaming everybody around him for his own failures.

Joe Willock and Calum Chambers both have a lot of good things to say about new teammate David Luiz, as he has a clear positive influence in the dressing room.

Before football ground to a halt, Vivianne Miedema had been having a great season and her stats certainly back that up, but will she lose all the records she set if the season never finishes?

Jordi Osei-Tutu became the first Arsenal loanee to return to competitive match action on Saturday, starting and scoring for VfL Bochum against Heidenheim.

Shkodran Mustafi thinks Mikel Arteta is like a professor in his approach to football management, and it’s nothing like he’s seen before.

Arsenal loanees Jordi Osei-Tutu and Konstantinos Mavropanos are hoping to make their return to the pitch this weekend, as the 2. Bundesliga kicks off again.

Jack Wilshere was almost ready to sign an Arsenal contract extension before Arsene Wenger left, but a conversation with Unai Emery convinced him to leave.

Bernd Leno says Shkodran Mustafi always spoke highly of Arsenal, the Premier League and London, helping to convince the goalkeeper to join.

Semi Ajayi looks back fondly on his time with Arsenal, particularly what he learned from the now-academy manager Per Mertesacker.

As I type this, it is two months to the day since it was announced that Mikel Arteta had tested positive for Covid-19 and football across the United Kingdom was postponed soon afterwards.