Arsenal News Archives: 08/2018

Takuma Asano is on fire in pre-season, and scored yet another goal, against Athletic Bilbao on Saturday, to keep his run going.

Unai Emery made the surprising admission that Danny Welbeck trained at left-back on Friday, as the club go through a minor crisis in the position ahead of Sunday’s match against Manchester City.

Harry Clarke, Jordan McEneff and Tobi Omole all signed their first professional contracts with Arsenal on Saturday, as the trio continue their progress through the club’s academy.

Unai Emery has challenged Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to win the Golden Boot this season.

Arsenal have agreed a new three-year deal with Banque du Caire, as their official partner in Egypt.

Unai Emery has named Carl Jenkinson, David Ospina and Joel Campbell as the three players that could leave this month, with the rest set to stay on at the Emirates.

Calum Chambers says his season-long loan to Fulham is all about showing what he can do, and hopefully getting back into the England squad as well.

Arsenal will have five captains for the new season and Laurent Koscielny will captain the captains, making him the captain.

Valon Behrami has revealed that his immediate response to learning he’d be forced out of his national team was to call Granit Xhaka and give the Arsenal man his support.

Former Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Edouard Cisse claims the club’s new boss Thomas Tuchel is more serene than Unai Emery, and thinks the 44-year-old is a good fit for the Parisians.

Mail.ru, a company co-owned by Alisher Usmanov, has called for a change to Russia’s hate-speech legislation and amnesty for those already convicted under the law ‘unjustly’.

Following the 5-0 defeat of Juventus in the first Arsenal Women’s game pre-season, I spoke to our latest recruit, the French goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud Magnin, who has just signed from Champions League winners Olympique Lyonnais.

Former Liverpool assistant manager Alex Miller thinks Steven Gerrard would only leave his job at Rangers if Arsenal, Liverpool or Manchester United come calling.

The final lineups have been announced for Per Mertesacker’s ‘Homecoming’ game that will take place in Germany in October.

The FA has finally disclosed the full FA WSL schedule barely 17 days before the season starts.

Contrary to how many people connected to the German national team have reacted to Mesut Ozil’s claims of institutional racism, players from the Turkish club Malatyaspor wore tshirts to show their support for the Arsenal man.

Alexandre Lacazette says he’s not interested in the opinions of people outside of Arsenal, and prefers to focus on his club and his teammates.

Arsenal are a bigger draw for supporters in Singapore than Atletico Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain, and generated a lot of good will in the country, according to reports in local media.

Thomas Muller claimed there’s no question of racism in sport or the German national team, when talking about Mesut Özil’s departure from international football.

Arsenal have signed Aaron D’Antino from Geelong in Australia to act as Joe Montemurro’s senior assistant coach for the women’s side.