Alex Lacazette:
“I’ll keep in contact with my team-mates, with the coaches, with the club. I supported
#Arsenal
since I was young, so obviously I’m going to keep supporting them. I know I will come back to the stadium as well.
"Like we say, ‘Once a Gunner, always a Gunner.’”
On this day in 2006, Arsenal should have won the Champions league 💔💔💔
Arsène Wenger: "Eto'o's equaliser was offside. It was proven on television. That would have changed the history of Arsenal football club."
Barcelona may be stripped of 4 Champions League trophies including 2006 final.
Barca are facing charges of bribing referees over a span of numerous years in the last two decades.
If found guilty, they could be stripped off the Champions League titles they won during that time.
Gavi at Barcelona
60 games
2 goals
6 assists
At Spain national team
12 games
1 goal
O assist
Saka at Arsenal
144 games
28 goals
33 assits
At England national team
20 games
4 goals
5 assists
Sagna:
Arsenal were robbed. The two major events changed the game. Ultimately it’s a shame, it was important game for Arsenal & by making such a big decision, the referee changed the outcome of the game.
For me it wasn't a penalty, and it wasn't a red card for Holding either.
Former Premier League referee Keith Hackett has called for VAR official Lee Mason to be sacked after he failed to rule out a goal which dented Arsenal’s title challenge.
My Arsenal player ratings against Tottenham
Ramsdale 10
Tomiyasu 10
White 10
Gabriel 10
Tierney 10
Xhaka 10
Partey 10
Saka 10
Rowe 10
Ødegaard 10
Aubameyang 10
All good!
Sir Alex Ferguson on Arsène Wenger
“He kept Arsenal in Europe every year and yet he was criticised. The supporters should be ashamed.
I won 13 leagues but I was never near going through a season undefeated. The achievement stands above everything else, and it was Arsene’s.”
Ramsdale top of the keeper stats
Arsenal have been proven right in their decision to let Emiliano Martinez go and replace him with Aaron Ramsdale
The Arsenal star has prevented the highest amount of goals in the Premier League.
Arsène Wenger has picked Nwanko Kanu as his best January signing at Arsenal
Kanu scored 17 goals in his first full season, including a 15-minute hat-trick against Chelsea, and helped our side reach the UEFA Cup final.
Mikel Arteta is the first Arsenal manager to see his side to home and away wins over West Ham in a Premier League campaign since 2016-17, in what was Arsène Wenger’s penultimate season in charge of the club.
Merino cost €32m (£27m)
Arsenal are going to pay the fee in four separate instalments
The €32m will be paid over the next four years with Arsenal set to pay €8m each year for the next 4 yrs
That means that Arsenal are paying just £6.8m up front for Merino this summer
[AS]
Fabio Vieira became the 19th Arsenal player to score on his first start in the Premier League.
However, the 22-year-old is the only one to do so with a strike from outside the box.
Ornstein: If Emery gets sacked Ljungberg's ready to take temporary charge
"Freddie is highly-rated by the players and staff, and the logical feeling is he would take temporary charge if anything happened with Emery,"
Arsenal are reportedly eyeing up a move for Bayer Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface, who could cost around £34m in what would be a cheaper alternative to Ivan Toney.
Kieran Gibbs:
“It showed when Arsene Wenger left, right? It showed how tough it was.
We used to get in a lot of trouble for just managing to finish in the top four every year. Which is strange, because the whole scope around it now is: who’s going to make the top four?"
Replacing Ødegaard with Maddison is a brilliant move.
A front four of Aubameyang, Maddison, Pepe and Lacazette is very strong. It could just take Arsenal back into the race for the top four. [tbr]
— No Aubameyang
— No Lacazette
— No Partey
— No Pepe
— No Tierney
— No Tomiyasu
— No new striker's Vlahović
Arsenal scored four sweet goals to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. London is Red!
Mesut Özil has done well tonight.
He hasn't got the ball too many times, but when he has, he has taken care of it and not given it away.
Özil's 91.3% is the best passing accuracy of any Arsenal player.
Stan Collymore is convinced Man United or Spurs will pip Arsenal to fourth spot
‘If they can prove me wrong, I will quite happily wear an Arsenal shirt with “Arteta 8” on the back and post a picture of it on the last day of the season. So come on, Gunners, bring it on.’
Our players are back in training. What a smile, Aubameyang, Lacazette, Luiz; New haircut for Bellerin; Welcome back Chambers, Cedric & Holding; Özil, Pepe on fire; Good to see our boss.
#Arsenal
The first African player to captain Arsenal
The first African to double as club and national team captain
The first non-European skipper for Arsenal
The first African to hit 50 goals in under 100 games
First Gabonese winner of the African Footballer of the Year award in 2015
Gabriel Agbonlahor
When I saw Aubameyang’s goal I thought, ‘he’s going to whip it here’.
He did it in the Community Shield too… I mean, Henry did it in every game for ten seasons for Arsenal, but it looks like that’s Aubameyang’s trademark now.
Aaron Ramsdale
"When we score and I'm on my own, the closest people to me are the fans. So they've become my teammates and I celebrate with them."
#Arsenal
Mesut Özil is like a new person in Arsenal training sessions
He is said to have been reinvigorated by the training methods implemented by Mikel Arteta over the past two weeks.
[Mirror via ESPN]
Mesut Özil will earn £67,000-per-week at Fenerbahce; He takes 80 per cent pay cut to leave Arsenal.
But he could land £670,000 in bonuses alone this season.
He will be handed an extra £445,000 if he helps Fenerbahce to a first league title since 2014.
[Sun via AS]
Love Arteta quote
"My first task will be to get to know the players better and get them playing the kind of fast flowing, attacking football that Arsenal supporters around the world want to see."
#WelcomeArteta
James Maddison:
"We will be giving everything [today], We are professionals.
The only way we can qualify for the Champions League is if we win all our games, so [helping Arsenal] is one for the fans to talk about, not us players."
Sokratis: Mesut is a fantastic player and when he is fit he is one of the most important players in the team.
Iwobi: Özil is world class. We scored three goals as a result of him playing. I know if I make a run he has the vision to find me. Hopefully he can keep on playing.
Ayew assures Arsenal fans: Just watch Partey next season
"They're going to see a lot from him very soon. I know his quality very well and he's going to make it big.
As soon as he's going to get free with his injuries and get to his full speed, he's going to be massive."
Fabrizio Romano on Ivan Toney:
"This is a rumour I’m hearing that his preference in terms of a top club move in January or the summer would be to go to Arsenal.
From what I’m hearing Ivan Toney could be really excited by the possibility of joining Arsenal."
👏Sweet Victory
👏North London is RED
👏Arsène finally beat Pochettino
👏Mustafi header goal
👏Alexis scored
👏Clean sheet
👏Assist by Özil and Lacazette
👏Koscielny 300th game
👏11 successive Premier League wins at the Emirates
👏Happy Arsenal fan
Turkey shows its support for Mesut Özil on street named after star by changing roadside picture from one of him in German kit to another alongside President Erdogan.
Fenerbahce president Ali Koc
When I first arrived in London to begin negotiations with Özil, I first spoke with Wenger. He said, 'you don't need to ask about his talent'.
Arsene was so positive about Mesut and so he spoke with our manager. It was a very fruitful conversation.
Arsenal appoint Mikel Arteta as head coach on December 20, 2019
Arsenal Beat Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool two times, Three Wembley wins and Two trophies.
Trust the process!
Arsenal are reportedly favourites to secure the signature of Brighton talisman Leandro Trossard this January. [The Sun]
Arsenal have held "positive talks" over Shakhtar Donetsk winger Mykhaylo Mudryk. [Fabrizio Romano]
Yesterday, Neville urges Emery to drop Maitland-Niles, Willock, Guendouzi and Nelson for trip to Liverpool
"....Particularly those two [Willock and Guendouzi] in midfield. This is not a kindergarten place, Anfield, you need to go with a little bit of experience."
Sadly true!
Ian Wright on Konstantinos Mavropanos
He was Sven Mislintat’s first signing
But I haven’t seen a performance like this, the anticipation, the pace, the awareness, from Arsenal for a long time.
For a 20-year-old to come in and be as cool and as calm as he was is so impressive.
Aubameyang has the opportunity to write himself into Arsenal's history books
He has scored in his last two away league games against Man United.
And should he net tomorrow, he would become the first ever Arsenal player to score in three consecutive away games against Man Utd.
Paul Merson
Özil made Sanchez a better player. The fans loved Sanchez because he would lose the ball but run 30 yards back and tackle.
The fans were saying why doesn’t Özil do that?
‘But Özil doesn’t do that because he doesn’t give the ball away as many times.’
Mesut Özil has teamed up with a group of Chelsea stars Giroud, Kante and Hudson-Odoi led by Rudiger to send 60,000 face masks to Sierra Leone to help in the ongoing fight against coronavirus across the world.
Aubameyang
It was a great goal, I think Gabi Martinelli did incredible work and he gave me this assist as well. All credit to him. I was really happy to score.
OFFICIAL
Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal head coach.
He become the 28th manager in charge of Arsenal & just the 20th full-time boss.
Fifth youngest manager in Arsenal's history.
Let's all support him and like Guardiola says 'he's going to do an excellent job.'
#WelcomeArteta
Robert Pires says it would be an ‘incredible story’ if Gabriel Jesus dents his former club’s title challenge and boosts Arsenal’s hopes of winning the Premier League for the first time since 2004.
Henry seems to have called Harry Kane "greedy" after winning his goal appeal
"My goal was to win games, I don’t care about anything else,
I wasn’t greedy like some of the other strikers that I had to battle against to win the Golden Boot."
Okocha on Özil
It is very pleasing to be the idol of such a world star player, to inspire him
He is a world-class player. I think he will definitely be successful in Fenerbahce
His career is similar to mine; we both played in Germany and England & he came to Fenerbahce like me