by rico | Friday, July 26, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Sky Sports Dharmesh Sheth has a few updates on Arsenal this morning: 1) Riccardo Calafiori becoming Arsenal’s new £42m signing is in its final stage of development. Sky Sports News has been told an announcement is not far off as all that remains are...
by rico | Thursday, July 25, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Arsenal.com has a post match assessment of our how our pre-season fixture against Bournemouth unfolded. Mikel Arteta opted to start with a mixture of youth and experience, with Ayden Heaven, Ethan Nwaneri, Salah-Eddine Oulad M’Hand and Myles Lewis-Skelly...
by rico | Wednesday, July 24, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. As last season came to a close with Manchester City looking more and more likely to pip Arsenal to the title for a second year running, the return of Jurrien Timber was a positive time. Having suffered a horrid injury on his Premier League debut, losing...
by rico | Tuesday, July 23, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Here are a few snippets of Mikel Arteta’s post Bournemouth press conference where he talks about his group of players and transfers. The full interview is available on Arsenal.com. On the mood in the camp this pre-season: It’s been very positive since day...
by rico | Monday, July 22, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. A young squad has travelled to the USA for our pre-season tour. Goalkeepers: Karl Hein, Tommy Setford, Lucas Nygaard, Alexei Rojas Defenders: Ben White, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Jurrien Timber, Josh Nichols, Jakub Kiwior, Ayden Heaven, Omar Rekik Midfielders:...
by rico | Sunday, July 21, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Arsenal played Leyton Orient yesterday at London Colney behind closed doors. Mikel Arteta’s side won the game but scoreline are irrelevant at this stage of the summer. Now is about minutes for players as they strive to get match fit for the start of the...
by rico | Saturday, July 20, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. The Athletic reports that Manchester United are exploring a deal to sign youth striker Chido Obi-Martin following the expiry of his schoolboy terms at Arsenal. The 16-year-old visited United’s Carrington training facilities earlier this week, with the...
by rico | Friday, July 19, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Arsenal are soon to jet off to the USA for pre season training along with a number of friendly matches. I say friendly but considering Liverpool, Man Utd and Bournemouth are the opposition, no doubt there will be a few tasty tackles going on. As it...
by rico | Wednesday, July 17, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. James McNicholas has written another good piece for The Athletic. This one relates to how both England and Arsenal have a conundrum in common: who is Declan Rice’s partner in the long term? The turnover in central midfield (at the Euros) left Rice with a...
by rico | Tuesday, July 16, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Sambi Lokonga and Nuno Tavares have left the club. Both deals are loans but I think we can assume neither will be returning. It’s always a shame when transfers don’t work out but that’s football, sometimes what you see elsewhere doesn’t turn out to be...
by rico | Monday, July 15, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Well, after all the pre match build up of hope, England were beaten by Spain in last night’s Euros final. The ‘boys did us proud’ is all over the internet this morning, something I don’t wholeheartedly agree with. Considering the team Gareth Southgate...
by rico | Saturday, July 13, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Afternoon guys. I’ve nicked this from James McNicholas of The Athletic who writes: Arsenal’s goalkeeping department is in the midst of an overhaul. If all goes to plan, they will complete the signing of three first-team goalkeepers in this transfer window. Beyond...
