Arsenal News Archives: 08/2016

Granit Xhaka is looking forward to facing his brother, Taulant, when Arsenal face Basel in the Champions League.

Joel Campbell has revealed why he left Arsenal to spend the season on loan at Sporting and it’s pretty much exactly what we all suspected.

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that he’s ‘99%’ sure that Shkrodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez will signing for Arsenal in the new few days.

Liverpool are ready to cash in on defender, Alex Greenwood, a player they purchased for a sizeable fee from Notts County in February.

What do you want me to cover first…Lucas Perez or the Champions League draw?

The draw for this year’s Champions League took place in Monaco on Thursday and it has been relatively kind to Arsenal.

Arsenal’s forward, Asisat Oshoala, has been endorsed as an ambassador of Capital Oil in her home country of Nigeria after the African Player of the Year was honoured with a brief ceremony.

Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud have been called up to the France squad that will face Italy and Belarus when the first interlull descends upon us next week.

When Arsenal don’t play midweek, Wednesday can be painfully quiet and this one was no different.

Chris Willock has been called up to the England u19 squad for their double header against the Netherlands and Belgium in September.

Dan Crowley got himself on the scoresheet for Oxford United but his superb goal was merely a consolation as the U’s lost 4-2 at home to Brighton.

There will be no Champions League for Wojciech Szczesny this season (or Thomas Vermaelen) as Roma were dumped out of qualifying by Porto, who thumped them in Rome.

Tuesday was one of the slowest news days for a while but boy, was the rumour mill spinning.

Alexis Sanchez has been called up to represent Chile during their World Cup 2018 qualifiers in September.

Finally, some good contract news: Petr Cech has signed with Puma.

Aaron Ramsey selflessly decided to take the spotlight off Arsenal’s lack of transfer activity this summer by attacking his own hair.

Alexis Sanchez has made his dogs, Atom and Homba, their own Instagram account and Twitter is pretty amused.

Djibril Sidibe has revealed to France Football why he turned down the chance to sign for Arsenal earlier in the window and instead chose Monaco.

18-year-old Tyrell Robinson has scored while on trial with West Brom’s u23s.

With very little in the way of actual news, we got stuck into the deep, depressing world of Arsenal gossip, including the latest on Shkodran Mustafi.