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Jack Wilshere confirmed his Arsenal departure on Tuesday evening. The announcement has been in the post for some time. Wilshere removed all reference to Arsenal on his social media accounts at the end of the season and, while too much is often made of the social media activity of footballers, Jack has been leaving some cryptic messages of late. Jack...

The departure of Jack Wilshere, as covered yesterday, was hardly unexpected but still leaves us a little light in central midfield. It is expected we'll be signing Uruguayan Lucas Torreira from Sampdoria to fill that particular gap. I'm guessing that deal will be done once his nation's participation in the World Cup is complete – and yesterday they won 1-0...

Last week Unai Emery held a series of meetings with available Arsenal players to discuss his plans for the upcoming season. One of those was with Jack Wilshere, and unlike some of the others, it didn't last very long. The midfielder was told his playing time would be reduced as the new head coach didn't see him as a key...

According to a report from Germany that emerged yesterday, Arsenal are set to make the signing of goalkeeper Bernd Leno official today. A fee of around €25m will see the 26 year old join from Bayer Leverkusen having been championed by Head of Recruitment Sven Mislintat. Those who watch more Bundesliga than I do have reservations about parts of his...

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. The World Cup is underway and that's the main focus of today's podcast, but with a close look at the Arsenal players taking part and how things are going for them. We discuss the use of VAR, and the new deal signed by Granit Xhaka which...

In the months leading up to the announcement of Arsene Wenger's departure, German manager Joachim Low was one of the names being floated as a potential successor. He was never anywhere near the top of my list, and after watching Germany get beaten by Mexico yesterday, I'm double glad we went in a different direction. Watching them struggle to break...

Morning, a quick Sunday round-up for you, but there's almost nothing Arsenal related to round-up so it's World Cup all the way really. There was Arsenal interest last night with Alex Iwobi starting for Nigeria against Croatia, but unfortunately he and his country had a poor night, losing 2-0 in the end. He was substituted midway through the second half,...

Look, let me be very clear from the start here. I know regular readers will understand this perfectly well as I have clarified my position on this more than once, however, just for anyone who might be stumbling across the blog for the first time, or for those who have not been paying attention: I do not like it...

Morning all, happy Friday. The World Cup kicked off last night with the hosts Russia handing out a bit of a pounding to Saudi Arabia, a 5-0 win is a very nice way to kick off the tournament for them. It wasn't the greatest game I've ever seen, but what I enjoyed about it was there was a lot of...

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast - the Arsenal podcast. With the signing of Uruguayan midfielder Lucas Torreira said to be near completion, I'm joined by James Horncastle who gives us some insight into the Sampdoria man. We look at his career progression, what kind of a player he is, how he might fit into the Arsenal set up,...

Arsenal’s Player of the Season award was something of a damp squib this year. It is difficult to think of any player that was consistently excellent throughout the campaign. Mesut Özil, in third place, was not consistent by his own exalted standards. Nacho Monreal was second on the podium for the commendable, yet hardly revelatory achievement of dropping a...

Good morning from a very wild and windy Dublin, hopefully it will be a bit more clement here when Arsenal visit in August for a pre-season friendly against Chelsea. Details of that game were announced yesterday, it'll take place at Lansdowne Road (Aviva Stadium) with an 8.05pm kick off. We had been due to play Chelsea in Stockholm on August...