Arsenal News Archives: 10/2016

Carl Jenkinson made his first start for Arsenal’s firest team in 898 days on Tuesday night against Reading and, after the match, the right-back couldn’t stop smiling.

A headed finish from Ro-Shaun Williams was enough for Manchester United’s u23s to secure all three points against an Arsenal side severely depleted due to a handful of talented youngsters training with the first-team squad in preparation for yesterday’s EFL Cup victory over Reading.

Alex Iwobi has revealed to Match of the Day Magazine that he and Chuba Akpom trained for both West Ham and Arsenal for three years.

Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil both failed to make the 30-man shortlist for the Ballon D’Or and it’s got me a little concerned.

Chelsea midfielder, Nemanja Matic claims that losing 3-0 away to Arsenal recently encouraged them to work harder.

Former France international, Christophe Dugarry, had high praise for Arsenal’s centre back, Laurent Koscielny recently, calling him the ‘real leader’

Gilberto Silva isn’t any stranger to the comparisons drawn between himself and Francis Coquelin but he’s revealed that he still takes it as a compliment.

Arsene Wenger believes that if Lucas Perez can transfer what he’s doing in training sessions onto the pitch, his chances of improving and growing in confidence are higher.

Moussa Sissoko is set to miss out on Tottenham’s trip to Arsenal on 6 November after accepting his charge of violent conduct from the FA.

Arsene Wenger, Stan Kroenke, Ivan Gazidis and Sir Chips Keswick all met with Arsenal members on Monday morning as the AGM took place.

There are somethings in life that people will tell you that you can’t quantify, buut we’ve tried to do just that with Jose Mourinho’s awful record.

Lucas Perez claims that Mesut Ozil has no interest in returning to Real Madrid and it’s not hard to see why.

Over the summer, we had the chance to speak very briefly with Shkodran Mustafi when he was in England with Valencia and Arsene Wenger has no confirmed the information we were given at the time.

Alex Iwobi has missed out on the Golden Boy award after it was given to Bayern Munich’s Renato Sanches.

One player in (Little) and three out (Losada, Natalia and Corredera) already, we are looking at a busy transfer window for the Arsenal Ladies.

Seven Arsenal Ladies have been involved with England u19 and u17 during the international break with tournament success for the u19 side.

Lucas Perez recently revealed that he expected more minutes when initially arriving at Arsenal but Wenger told him to ‘be quiet’ about it as he trusts him.

Ainsley Maitlaind-Niles is set to start for Arsenal against Reading in the EFL Cup on Tuesday night according to Jeorge Bird.

Petr Čech admitted that Middlesbrough deserved a point during the hard-fought goalless draw at the Emirates on Saturday afternoon.

It was a better week for Arsenal’s crop of players out on-loan, especially Dan Crowley, who followed up his goal against Coventry with another well-taken finish against Port Vale in one of Saturday’s 3pm kick-off’s.