Arsenal News Archives: 08/2016

The Arsenal centre back was again an unused sub and has not seen much game time in the tournament but will come back with at least a silver medal.

FC Utrecht seem set to play Tafari Moore in their youth team despite Arsenal saying the 19-year-old would now ‘test himself in the top tier of Dutch football.’

Arsenal have confirmed that Tafari Moore will spend this season on loan with FC Utrecht, a club he first trained with towards the end of July.

Granit Xhaka is one of a number of big name players who have been invited to play for Kosovo after they were finally granted FIFA status in May this year.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles has set his sights on cracking the Arsenal first team after a loan spell with Ipswich last season.

Ryan Huddart did not enjoy the best night between the sticks for Eastleigh as they lost 4-2 at home to Dover as he opened the scoring for the visitors.

Per Mertesacker has taken to his Facebook page to say what a ‘huge honour’ it is to be named Arsenal captain.

Roma have named Wojceich Szczesny in their Champions League squad ahead of their qualifier on Wednesday night against Porto.

A student was shot dead in Uganda on Sunday evening by police after students attempted to riot after the Arsenal game against Liverpool.

Arsenal fans have been given a mini-boost ahead of our clash with Leicester City next Saturday as Mark Clattenburg has been named the first official.

Former Gunner, Lukas Podolski, has announced his retirement from international football.

Graeme Souness is convinced that having Laurent Koscielny play against Liverpool on Sunday could have prevented a couple of goals and therefore Arsenal’s loss.

Petr Cech stood by Calum Chambers and Rob Holding following Arsenal’s 4-3 loss against Liverpool on Sunday, insisting that they did well.

The Arsenal defender stayed on the bench for the whole 90 minutes as Germany beat China PR and avoided an upset, unlike world #1 USA and #3 France who went home earlier than expected.

Monday was all about the fall-out from Arsenal’s 4-3 loss against Liverpool.

Abdullah Al-Rashidi won bronze in the Rio 2016 shooting event and did so while wearing an Arsenal shirt, although he seems confused by that last part.

After Arsenal lost to Liverpool on Sunday, talk in the Sky Sports studio inevitably turned to the Gunners’ lack of new signings this summer with Thierry Henry even raising the valid point that players no longer want to come to us.

Petr Cech’s Sunday went from bad to worse after he drove his car into a pillar trying to leave the Emirates.

When Alex Iwobi was subbed off against Liverpool despite being one of Arsenal’s better players, especially in the first half, everyone instantly feared the worst.

Following Arsenal’s 4-3 loss to Liverpool, Petr Cech spoke to Sky Sports and claimed that the visitors were very aggressive.