Arsenal News Archives: 05/2016

Alex Iwobi has been included in the Nigeria squad for their friendly against Mali that will take place in France on 27 May in the Stade Robert Diochon.

Absentee Arsenal majority owner, Stan Kroenke, was given even more incentive to stay away from North London yesterday when his NFL franchise, the Los Angeles Rams, were awarded the rights to host Superbowl LV in 2021.

Arsenal finally announced the signing of their first summer recruit on Wednesday when they made the Granit Xhaka deal official. Here’s how it took a year for them to get their man.

Granit Xhaka was officially announced as an Arsenal player on Wednesday and the player has already been giving interviews to the media in his home country about the move.

With the Granit Xhaka deal now official, people started wondering who the next signing would be. I didn’t. I wanted to know how long we were signing him for, what it was costing the club, and how much he was going to get paid.

Granit Xhaka wasted no time in delivering his own statement about joining Arsenal after the club announced his arrival.

Although we’ve known that the 23-year-old is coming to north London for a little while now, Arsenal have finally got their backsides in gear and announced the signing.

Tomas Rosicky will not be hanging up his boots despite leaving Arsenal and heading to the Euros without a club.

John Hartson’s been on a mad one, claiming that Arsene Wenger is about to spend £150m in the summer transfer window.

Mesut Özil and Alexis Sanchez have both been enjoying their time off from football but in different ways.

Aaron Ramsey has proven yet again that’s he’s a certified lad by bringing up all the banter he and the Welsh national team have.

What do Arsenal players love? Banter. What else do they love? A May wedding, apparently.

Gedion Zelalem has thanked Rangers for his season-long loan deal in Scotland.

Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Freddie Ljungberg all appeared alongside Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud and Hector Bellerin in the advert for our new 2016/17 Puma kit.

The new Arsenal kit was revealed today and the first team to play in it will be the Ladies’ team.

Mesut Özil has been pictured wearing our new 2016/17 Arsenal kit.

Along with our new 2016/17 home and goalkeeper kits, images have also emerged of our away and training kit.

Arsenal officially revealed their new kit for the 2016/17 season on Monday morning but it’s looking a little bit different to our rumoured goalkeeper kit.

Hector Bellerin apparently likes the stripe down the centre of our new Arsenal home kit, which is a bit awkward because most people are a little confused by it.

Alexis Sanchez appears to have finally made a decision regarding his Arsenal future: he’s changed his shirt number.