My Arsenal Blog

As one of my colleagues wrote earlier, Arsenal are reportedly close to completing the £14million signing of Barcelona midfielder Denis Suarez. The Spaniard has struggled for first-team minutes in the Catalan capital.

No shame in failing to make it at Barcelona

Barcelona are one of the biggest clubs to world football, both in profile and their success on the pitch. Along with Spanish rivals Real Madrid, they are a step ahead of the big clubs in other countries.

As such, they tend to sign whatever player want. A case in point was the Catalan giants signing Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool, despite the Reds resisting their overtures for a short while.  .......Read more here.....

Given that it’s the January transfer window, it won’t come as much of a shock to learn that the fascination surrounding Aaron Ramsey has kicked up into another gear once again. It’s something that we were all anticipating, and some of us were probably thinking that it may even be pushed back to the summer. Alas, here we are, as the Welshman moves closer and closer towards a transfer away from the Emirates.  .......Read more here.....

Arsenal sprang back from the horrors of Anfield by thrashing Premier League underdogs Fulham by 4-1. Sometimes, a game against one of the weakest teams in the league is just what you need to regain some confidence after being taken to the cleaner’s by the league’s best.

Alexandre Lacazette had a fantastic game. His recognizable movement and work-rate was of great value to the team, and after Granit Xhaka opened the scoring in the 25th minute, he crowned his performance by finishing off a fluid move to double the lead ten minutes into the second half.  .......Read more here.....

The story of Aaron Ramsey as an Arsenal player is about to come to an end, that much has been known for a while now. His current deal ends with this season, and there won’t be a new one.

It was quite a surprising turn of events when it became known that the club had withdrawn their offer from the table without presenting Ramsey with any kind of alternative. There have been many speculations as to why such a development came to pass, mostly spinning around the player’s wage demands. It is quite possible that Ramsey wanted a lot of money after the club reached an agreement over such a deal with Mesut Ozil, one that Arsene Wenger was reportedly against at the time, but there hasn’t been any kind of confirmation of the reports from either Ramsey or Arsenal.  .......Read more here.....

According to the Express, Arsenal are the favourites to sign Lyon’s promising young French midfielder Houssem Aouar. The youngster is regarded as one of the brightest young stars in the European game.

The Gunners have made a promising start to life under Spanish boss Unai Emery. However, the former Valencia boss s reportedly looking to strengthen his squad in the winter transfer window and Aouar is reported to be his prime target.

Could spend money in January after a low spending summer

Emery spent a relatively small amount of money in the summer, as the club looked to strengthen their squad with bargains. According to the Express, though, Arsenal hierarchy are prepared to back the Spaniard in the transfer market in January.  .......Read more here.....

We spend a lot of time praising the work of Unai Emery, and it’s not exactly difficult to do so when you take a look at Arsenal’s 19 game unbeaten run. The guy has turned this team upside down, and we’re all in for the journey. Alas, in the wake of the Gunners’ win over Tottenham at the weekend, reports seemed to indicate that Emery would be holding firm on Aaron Ramsey’s contract situation even after a handful of good performances as of late.  .......Read more here.....

As we all know, Arsenal recorded a magnificent 4-2 win over arch-rivals Tottenham in the north London derby on Sunday afternoon. The derby had absolutely everything, as the two teams went at it in a highly entertaining encounter.

The Gunners resilience to come back from 2-1 down to record what could be a pivotal victory in the race for the Champions League places.

Good management by Emery

Much of the credit for the comeback must go to Gunners boss Unai Emery. The Spanish boss could see that the starting line-up he picked was not working out in the latter stages of the first half and remedied the situation at half time.  .......Read more here.....

Yes, it’s Aaron Ramsey time.

The Welshman scored last night in Arsenal’s 3-0 win over Vorskla, confirming that he isn’t just going to wait in the wings for the next few months until making a definitive decision about his contract. Instead, he’s going to focus on doing what he does best – and that’s putting the team first on the pitch.  .......Read more here.....

Yup, we said the R-word – time to put a quarter in the jar (no we aren’t American but that’s just what they say in all of the movies).

The Aaron Ramsey saga goes up and down like a rollercoaster on a week to week basis, in the sense that sometimes it appears as if things are going really well and then other times it feels like they really, really aren’t. Regardless of that, though, there are some really interesting layers to the tale that kind of (at least in our mind) represent the bigger picture of this weird and wonderful world of transfers.  .......Read more here.....

We’re revisiting one of our favourite subjects in the whole world (can you sense the sarcasm?) – yes, we’re referring to Aaron Ramsey. The Gunners midfielder has had what many would describe as an interesting journey throughout the course of the last twelve months at the Emirates, and people would interpret the word ‘interesting’ in many different ways. Essentially, the Welshman has been embroiled in a contract dispute with the club, and it feels like it’s never going to end.  .......Read more here.....