ARSENAL TO PAY PARTEY’S RELEASE CLAUSE

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Arsenal are ready to pay the release clause for Atletico Madrid’s midfielder Thomas Partey. According to reports, the Ghana international has a €50 million release clause in his contract and the Gunners are hoping to activate the clause in the Summer.


According to Libertad Digital, the Gunners have already reached out to the player’s representatives, tabling their interest, while making it clear they would be prepared to pay his buyout clause to bring him to London.
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OZIL TO FEATURE AGAINST ASTON VILLA

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Arsenal will not be traveling to Germany with their star player MesutOzil as per reports. The player is being rested for their Eintracht Frankfurt tie on Thursday despite playing only 71 minutes so far. The coach Unai Emery has come out to defend the choice of leaving out the former Real Madrid man.


Emery said he wants the midfielder to rest as his rotation plans come into effect. He said defender SokratisPapastathopoulos and Ozil will be rested for this game as he plans with 11 plans and rotates his squad of 19 fit players. The coach expects Ozil to feature in Aston Villa game as he would be physically and emotionally ready.
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FANS EXCITED WITH BELLERIN AND TIERNEY TRAINING PICTURES

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Arsenal fans have been hailing the released pictures of Hector Bellerin and Kieran Tierney in full training with the team. The defensive pair is expected to return and hand a boost to the current overwhelmed mechanism.

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Bellerin and Tierney had been working separately from the group as they focused on recovery from their injuries. The Spaniard was working on coming back from a knee injury he picked up back in January. Tierney, on the other hand, was a summer signing Raul Sanllehi engineered. The player underwent a double hernia operation and has been in recovery.
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Arsenal looking at double transfer

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Arsenal are looking to sign Benfica left-back Alex Grimaldi as part of a double transfer deals for the club. The Gunners have been without a sporting director since the exit of Sven Mlinstat in February and are looking to appoint former Sevilla director Monchi for the position.

Monchi is considered as one of the best spotters of talent in European football and enjoyed a 17-year spell at Sevilla where he was able to build the club through screwed purchases.  The Spaniard was able to spot talents like Dani Alves, Seydou Keita and Ivan Rakitic before selling the players for big transfer fees.
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EMERY STILL HAS OZIL IN HIS PLANS

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Arsenal manager Unai Emery continue to insists that playmaker Mesut Ozil remains in his plans despite the German not featuring in the last five games for the club. The 30-year old has been linked with a move away from the club this transfer winter window with several clubs interested.

Ozil’s commitment and work rate were criticized in his final days in the German national team shirt. This has been the case in his recent Arsenal performances but Emery says he would still hold on to the playmaker.
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SOKRATIS FIRES WARNING TO ARSENAL RIVALS

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You get the feeling that the Gunners still have plenty of room for improvement even after stretching their unbeaten run to 17 games in the Premier League.

Arsenal defender SokratisPapastathopoulos has fired a warning to all Arsenal rivals of how confident they are of cracking the top four having reached just “70 percent to 80 percent” of their potential under new head coach Unai Emery.
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Arsenal playing the waiting game with regards to Aaron Ramsey’s future

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Arsenal are reportedly playing the waiting game with midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who has yet to commit to them on a long-term contract. The Wales international has just 11 months left on his current deal with the Gunners but so far, the club have not managed to come to terms with his wage demands.

According to Evening Standard, the north London club are reluctant to be held to ransom by the Welshman and they have told the midfielder that he cannot expect a salary rise similar to that of Mesut Ozil. It is added Ramsey is eyeing at least twice of his current wages of around £110,000-a-week but even that remains out of order with the Gunners, who are watching out for their wage bill.
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ARSENAL TO SPEAK TO THIERRY HENRY

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Premier League side Arsenal FC are set to speak to club legend Thierry Henry regarding the vacant managerial capacity at the club, according to reports in England. The talks are reported to happen next week as the club continues to speak to more people in a bid to get the right man for the job.

Arsenal are keen on getting the right replacement for long term coach Arsene Wenger, who says he could still like to coach but outside England out of respect for the club he managed for 22 years. For now the leading candidate is former Gunner MikelArteta, as per reports.
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WRIGHT BLASTS OZIL’S MESSAGE

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A former and a current player of Arsenal have clashed over the recent turn of events at the Emirates.


MesutOzil, current midfielder in the Gunners setup complained in a heartfelt post about the level of criticisms the team was receiving and more importantly that former players preferred to talk more than support the team. The 28-year old German asked them to “stop talking and start supporting” in a long post on Facebook.

Wright has hit out at the player, saying he was in no position to say such considering that he was yet to extend his deal with the north London club. Ozil has been a subject of a long drawn contract extension saga. The club eventually convinced him to remain at the club as there were reports he could exit. He was promised a huge wage packet but nothing official has been announced ever since.

“Sign a contract, if you feel that strongly about people criticizing the team, because you’re somebody who is integral to Arsenal’s success,” Wright declared. Read More

Lineker on Arsenal

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Former England international Gary Lineker believes that Arsenal needs major signings if they want to compete for the title in the future.


He believes that Arsene Wenger is wrong when he says that the club needs only two players to compete with the biggest team in England.

For Lineker, the current team is not good enough and that there need to be some big changes in the team if they are ever going to win the Premier League again. He said that it is one thing to beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final and to go and win the league over a stretch of 38 games. Read More