Tag: Chuba Akpom

With just over a week left of the January transfer window remaining, there are still a number of Arsenal's talented youngsters who will be eyeing loan moves before the end of the month.

Cohen Bramall made his debut in Arsenal colours and Edward Nketiah came off the substitutes' bench to score a goal and assist another as Arsenal u23s overturned a one-goal deficit to beat Southampton 3-1 away.

According to a recent report in the Times, three Championship sides are all interested in signing Chuba Akpom on loan until the end of the current campaign.

Chuba Akpom started and played the first-half of Arsenal u23s' 2-1 victory over bottom side Derby County on Friday.

Edward Nketiah scored his fourth goal at u23 level to secure a slender but deserved victory for the Young Guns, as they returned to winning ways after a 3-2 away defeat against Liverpool in the second week of December.

After he netted his seventh goal of the current campaign in a narrow Boxing Day win over MK Dons, Charlton's highly-rated teenager, Ademola Lookman, is becoming increasingly close to a potential Everton move.

With Arsenal's busy festive period well and truly underway, let's take a look at the players out and when we can expect them back.

According to reports, Chuba Akpom is set to go out on loan to Ipswich Town for six months.

Arsenal have welcomed back four players to training – Olivier Giroud, Hector Bellerin, Per Mertesacker and Chuba Akpom.

Arsenal are looking to send Chuba Akpom out on loan in January which is great news as it means his back problems are almost sorted.

Chuba Akpom is back in the gym as he tries to recover from a stress fracture in his back.

The Nigerian press have picked up on an interview Santi Cazorla did with Arsenal's magazine in which he describes his relationship with the younger members of the squad.

Didier Deschamps has revealed that Olivier Giroud, Arsenal’s only fit striker, is not 100% fit but the player disagrees.

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.

Chuba Akpom looks like he will be sidelined until 2017 with a stress fracture injury in his back that will keep him out of the Arsenal side

Alex Iwobi recently took part in a Twitter Takeover with FourFourTwo in which he tipped life-long friend, Chuba Akpom, as the next youth player to break through into the Arsenal first team.

Chuba Akpom was missing from Arsenal's Champions League squad on Wednesday night and nobody said much about it. Now, is seems he's out with a back injury.

Rob Holding couldn't have asked for a better way to celebrate his 21st birthday - four goals, a cleansheet and another 90 minutes for The Arsenal.

In a rapid fire question round between Jeff Reine-Adelaide and Chuba Akpom, Jeff was asked who he preferred, Thierry Henry or Dennis Bergkamp.

Isaac Hayden revealed during his and Chuba Akpom's 'roommates' video that they did for the FA while away on duty with the England u21s, that Chuba and Alex Iwobi are joined at the hip.

According to Sky Sports, Chuba Akpom and Mathieu Debuchy are set to stay at Arsenal despite both being linked with loan moves away.

You can definitely tell that transfer deadline day is just around the corner.

The Evening Standard are claiming that Chuba Akpom could go out on loan before the transfer window closes on Wednesday night.

After Arsenal drew Nottingham Forest in the English Football League (EFL) Cup, Arsene Wenger discussed who we could potentially see play.

With all the transfer doom and gloom surrounding Arsenal at the moment, it's easy to lose sight of reasons that we should actually get pretty excited about the new Premier League season starting on Saturday (Sunday for us).

Arsenal’s final pre-season game against Manchester City all became a little pointless when Gabriel was crippled in the final moments of the game.

Yes. I am one of those weirdo's that stayed up to watch a 3-1 win in a meaningless pre-season friendly that didn't finish until 4am UK time. And it was worth it.

As Stephen Bradley already wrote this morning, we shouldn't read too much into what was partly an exhibition game for the MLS and partly an exercise in developing match fitness for Arsenal.

It was an okay game with an okay result with Granit Xhaka integrating into the team straight away and others not showing up.

Plenty of youngsters were given some minutes during our 1-1 pre-season draw against Ligue 2 side Lens on Friday evening, so how did they do?

Our first pre-season match is behind us, how did our players do?

Hull City have announced that Chuba Akpom and Isaac Hayden will be returning to Arsenal following their season-long loan deals.

So another season has been and gone, with all the excitement, disappointment and Tottenham schadenfreude that comes with being an Arsenal fan in the Emirates era.

Chuba Akpom was understandably ecstatic after his loan club, Hull City, won promotion to the Premier League on Saturday afternoon and took to Twitter to thank them for everything they've done for him over the past season.

Chuba Akpom was part of the Hull squad that won promotion back to the Premier League on Saturday at Wembley.

Hull City saw off Derby County on Tuesday evening to secure a place in the Championship play-off final.

Debuchy was the only Arsenal loanee to feature on Saturday.

Arsenal's loanees have featured less as the season has gone on but Mathieu Debuchy, Isaac Hayden, Chuba Akpom all started during the weekend.

Chuba Akpom provided his first assist in the Championship against Leeds on Saturday in a match which ended 2-2.

Three Arsenal loanees featured for their temporary clubs on Friday and Saturday.