Arsenal News Archives: 08/2016

Kevin Friend is set to referee Arsenal’s clash against Watford at Vicarage Road on Saturday and the Gunners are really going to need him to make big decisions.

Former Gunner, Robert Pires, believes that Arsene Wenger is still the best man for Arsenal despite our disappointing start to the season.

Antoine Griezmann has admitted that although he’s open to a move to the Premier League one day, at the moment he’s under contract with Atletico Madrid.

After Arsenal’s u23s lost 1-0 to Manchester City on Friday night, Ben Sheaf insisted that he doesn’t believe the Young Guns deserved to lose.

Bryan Ruiz welcomed Joel Campbell to his new club, Sporting, after the forward completed his move to the Portuguese team this weekend.

There are now only six games remaining, seven if the Ladies qualify for the Conti Cup final and then the season will end before the move to the winter season for 2017/18.

Back in January, we brought your attention to Arsenal’s 12-year-old wonderkid, Omari Hutchinson, and now he’s at it again.

Theo Walcott was surprisingly upbeat following Arsenal’s 0-0 draw against Leicester City on Saturday.

Arsene Wenger hailed Laurent Koscielny following Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Leicester on Saturday and admitted that he has no other solutions for central defence right now.

If you closed down the internet on Friday afternoon when you left work and didn’t look back, you might have missed a few things.

Ah, a lazy Sunday where absolutely nothing happened apart from Joel Campbell leaving, fall-out from Leicester continuing, and some gossip.

Sporting’s manager, Jorge Jesus, has said that Joel Campbell was a player he wanted when he was manager of Benfica, but refused to be drawn further on the issue because the deal wasn’t complete.

Back in 2002, Arsene Wenger spoke about how the money in football simply had to run out soon. How wrong he was.

Jon Toral played 73 minutes of Granada’s 1-1 draw with Villarreal on Saturday evening as La Liga got underway.

Dan Crowley played nine minutes for Oxford United as they grabbed all three points thanks to an injury time penalty against Peterborough on Saturday afternoon.

Wojciech Szczesny returned to the Roma starting lineup for their 4-0 win over Udinese in Serie A after missing their Champions League game due to a lack of match fitness.

Arsene Wenger took a dig at the price Manchester City paid for John Stones while also taking aim at those calling for him to spend money, those who believe you can only buy good players if you pay a lot and basically anyone else who had some transfer-related questions in tetchy post-Leicester interviews.

An actual football Saturday means there is real stuff to talk about.

Isaac Hayden claims that he’s always felt a connection to Newcastle ever since watching the film ‘Goal!’ as a kid and that his move this summer was a ‘dream come true’ and that Arsene Wenger did not want to let him leave.

Arsenal’s centre-back, Josephine Henning, will come back to the club with an unexpected gold medal as Germany beat Sweden 2-1 in the Olympic final on Friday.