Riyad Mahrez

Friday was mainly about the gossip, despite our Premier League match with Leicester just around the corner.

Claudio Ranieri claims that Leicester City are ready to beat Arsenal on Saturday after the Gunners took all six points off them last season.

The internet is claiming Riyad Mahrez rejected Arsenal, but they didn’t even give him the chance to

On Thursday, Arsene Wenger gave his pre-Leicester City press conference and most of the news surrounded his comments.

Arsene Wenger hailed Riyad Mahrez’s performance last season after the winger decided to sign a new deal with Leicester City on Wednesday.

Another Arsenal transfer saga has ended as Riyad Mahrez signed a new deal to stay at Leicester until 2020, confirming what we said all along – he’d be going nowhere.

If you want to gauge how hot a transfer rumour is, then simply look for the number of headlines coming your way that basically all say the same thing.

With mixed messages coming out this week claiming that Riyad Mahrez both wanted to stay at Leicester and join Arsenal, Claudio Ranieri has been as clear as he could possibly be.

Depending on where you do your reading, you could be sitting here today believing that Riyad Mahrez wants to join Arsenal or stay at Leicester City.

Thursday’s headlines were dominated by the news that Shkodran Mustafi’s agent confirmed an agreement between his client and Arsenal but other stuff happened to, believe it or not.

Although everyone’s still talking about Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez to Arsenal and reporting on it, there’s actually been very little change one way or the other.

Claudio Ranieri has faced his latest round of questioning about Leicester City winger, Riyad Mahrez, with a mixture of confusion and indigence.

Wednesday was full of the usual fun – I mean that sarcastically, of course – and some news.

The Riyad Mahrez to Arsenal saga coughs and splutters on. However, when before it seemed as if the Leicester City man could have a slight chance of coming to north London, now it’s not looking likely. At all.

Who wants to read about our failure to sign a centre forward and search for Johnny Evans?

According to L’Equipe, Arsenal have submitted a second bid of £35m for Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez.

Leicester City have reportedly made a £23m bid for Santos winger, Gabriel Barbosa.

Riyad Mahrez has allegedly told everyone he needs to that he wants to leave Leicester for Arsenal, but he won’t say it publicly and he won’t hand in a transfer request according to the latest nonsense that was doing the rounds on Tuesday.

Saturday was full of post-match comments from Arsene Wenger and players following our 8-0 win over Viking FK but of course there was still the usual amount of shady gossip doing the rounds.

Claudio Ranieri has insisted that Riyad Mahrez is staying with Leicester City for about the 100th time.