Serge Gnabry

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

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that he’d like to extend Serge Gnabry’s existing contract with Arsenal despite Hertha Berlain still reportedly wanting the German star on loan.

After scoring six goals in four appearances, if you were going to put money on one player to score to put Germany through the final of the Olympic’s football tournament, it would be Serge Gnabry.

Serge Gnabry’s people have let it be known in Germany that a new contract for the player at Arsenal is ‘just a formality’ after the Olympics as the player continues to be linked with a loan move to Hertha Berlin.

Serge Gnabry is confident of sealing Germany’s place in the Olympic final when they face Nigeria at 8pm (UK) in Rio.

The man Tony Pulis didn’t rate when he had him on loan at West Brom is continuing to rip up the Olympics by scoring his sixth goal in four games against Portugal.

With just one year left on his Arsenal contract and lighting up Rio, Serge Gnabry is being linked heavily with a move to Hertha BSC according to reports in Germany.

According to Bild, Arsenal have opened talks with Serge Gnabry over extending his contract ahead of it expiring next summer.

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.

Serge Gnabry isn’t showing any signs of slowing down as he scored two more goals in Germany’s 10-0 triumph over Fiji in the Olympics on Wednesday night.

Serge Gnabry scored his second and third goals at the Rio Olympics as he netted twice on Sunday against South Korea.

Friday was a comparatively jam-packed day with deals happening left, right and centre, as well as the usual gossip-guff.

Serge Gnabry has said he was ‘very happy’ to score for Germany against Mexico in their Rio Olympics opener as the sides drew 2-2.

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?

We all know that a complete and full pre-season is one of the keys to a great campaign, but with a summer filled with international tournaments, who will miss not only pre-season, but the start of the season which is upon us in just under one month?

Well, here we are, another Arsenal-less weekend with nothing much but nonsense to discuss.

After his injury last season, it’s good to see Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain back in training alongside Serge Gnabry.

In the absence of any actual news about Vardy or Henrikh Mkhitaryan it seems a good time to follow on from last week, where I covered the youth set-ups striking options in detail. This time I’m going to talk about attacking midfielders and wingers.

Santi Cazorla, Calum Chambers, Tomas Rosicky and Serge Gnabry will all play for Arsenal’s u21s tonight as they face Blackburn Rovers.