Well the season be over (for good and bad) and now we’re headed off to the beach to be baked by the sun-hot speculation of the transfer- market arrivals, whilst surfing the waves whilst wondering who will barrel-over and depart.
The fixtures for the new season will be released on the 18 of June at 10am (WET). The Mighty Cannon is back in action on the 23rd of July against AC Milan, kick off 12.30pm western European time, we then play Newcastle and the Spuds in the following days.
The Charity shield between Palace and Liverpool is on the 9th of August.
Take care of yourselves and have a great summer. Its odd that we don’t wish each other any kind of happiness/greatness in any other season?
COYG!
Positively Arsenal 
Fulham want to take Reiss Nelson on loan again for the coming season, Arsenal want to include an obligation to buy in the deal
Arsenal also looking to sell Vieira, and want £20M for him
Karl Hein it seems will be allowed go on loan again this season, reports suggest Arsenal can extend his contract by a year
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Arsenal will play Watford this weekend in a behind closed doors friendly before flying out on the preseason tour, and will play first game of that tour this day week v AC Milan
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The three players that were supposed to have medicals this week are all wanted, by Mikel, to be on the plane. They look like they’re now cutting it fine.
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Olivia Smith officially unveiled today as the first woman’s Million pound player.
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ian I seen a report that Noni Madueke has actually asked Arsnenal to include him in the squad going on the tour although he is still entitled to be on holidays after being with CFC at the club thingy, the report suggests that Arsenal will not include him.
other reports suggest that the unveiling of Gyokeres will actually be with him on the plane to Asia
but isn’t it so very Arsenal to take so long to announce these 3 signings
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Absolutely Ed,
All the media and ITK say medicals on such a day and announcement the day after
I sometimes wonder whether ARSENAL don’t unveil them just to piss everybody off.
I suppose keeping fans on the edge of their seats will keep them quiet too.
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ARSENAL officially announce the signing of hey Noni Noni
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yeah Madueke finally confirmed, and laughably it seems a mistake was made on the net when a photo of Mosquera doing his media work for his announcement was put up during the Noni reveal, but still Arsenal have not confirmed Mosquera.
More reports this evening that Gyokeres deal is done and might be revealed tomorrow in time for him to be named in the squad that leaves tomorrow evening for Asia.
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one nice thing in the Madueke signing was that former Arsenal youth team and reserve striker Tyreece John-Jules who left us in last summer and spent last season with Crawley Town, but has no club at the moment, and is a close friend of Madueke was part of the entourage brought by Noni to the Emirates and London Colney for the media work.
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seems Madueke will not be going on the trip to Asia, as he says in his interview today that he has a holiday now before he joins up with his new team mates
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Both Louis Zecevic John and Khari Ranson have signed their first professional contracts with Arsenal
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media reporting that Ethan Nwaneri has signed his new 5 year contract
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i’m not a happy man, Shelbourne have signed former Arsenal u21 player Jack Henry-Francis, as I like Shamrock Rovers and would have hoped if he ended up in the League of Ireland it would be with them, but alas he has joined Shels. He was on loan last season with Sligo Rovers and he really was outstanding for them.
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The strange thing about Noni was he left the chelski squad just before the final. Surely they could of let him play in that and then do the rest of the business, if there was no rush because he wasn’t coming on the tour.
I know some people will say they didn’t want him to get injured but if anyone was that worried then why did he play in the rest of the tournament.
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I always thought ARSENAL would try and announce the signings on three separate days.
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I thought Jack Henry-Francis would sign for a team in the English league, league one or even championship.
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Sligo Rovers wanted him on permanent basis after his great loan with them last season, but they too believed he was signing for a league one or championship team, that was the info they were given.
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Demiane Agustien has signed a pro contract with Arsenal after turning down a contract with Derby County who he played for the last two seasons. He turns 18 later this month and is an attacking midfielder.
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seems there was some hold up with Mosquera’s move to Arsenal, something to do with paper work or maybe clarification on medication he takes, anyway its now being reported all is sorted, and that he actually traveled with the 30 man squad on the Asia tour. Although not listed, as deal not confirmed yet.
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Men’s Asia Tour 2025 – Travelling squad
Goalkeepers: David Raya, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Tommy Setford, Alexei Rojas-Fedorushchenko.
Defenders: William Saliba, Ben White, Gabriel Magalhaes, Jurrien Timber, Jakub Kiwior, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Riccardo Calafiori, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Josh Nichols, Marli Salmon.
Midfielders: Martin Odegaard, Christian Norgaard, Mikel Merino, Sambi Lokonga, Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice, Louie Copley.
Forwards: Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Leandro Trossard, Ethan Nwaneri, Reiss Nelson, Kai Havertz, Ismeal Kabia, Max Dowman, Andre Harriman-Annous.
Hein left out due to a thumb injury and he is in talks with clubs about a move
Madueke and Vieira left out due to having played at the club thingy, and Jesus out as he is still recovering from knee surgery
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I mentioned a few weeks ago about Arsenal being in for Shamrock Rovers rising stat Victor Ozhianvuna, well this is an update from the Irish Independent newspaper
Arsenal are close to signing Shamrock Rovers midfielder, Victor Ozhianvuna (16), for a record-breaking €2m.
Due to post-Brexit rules, the Irishman would be unable to join the Gunners until he turns 18 in January 2027.
[@independent.ie]
Ozhianvuna actually made his full Rovers debut last night in the FAI cup and scored a great goal in a man of the match winning performance.
All reports suggest that he will stay with Rovers for the next 18 months and continue to be a full part of their first team squad.
He can play a number of positions, he has played wingback, wide midfield, central midfield and attacking midfield for various Ireland youth teams and Shamrock Rovers academy teams and has played wide right and wide left for Shamrock Rovers first team so far. Arsenal are said to be also interested in his fellow Shamrock Rovers first team player Michael Noonan, with man city also on his case.
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Demiane Agustien’s father Kemy Agustien played 39 games in the EPL for Swansea and played in the Championship for Crystal Palace and Brighton, and he had a whole host of other clubs in Holland and in non league in England. Kemy played in the Arsenal v Swansea game that Per Mertesacker and Mikel Arteta made their Arsenal debuts in
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Arsenal are being linked with a £12M move for 20 year old Mainz striker Nelson Weiper, he is a German U21 International, and is 6ft 3in tall.
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Arsenal U18’s lost 2-0 in a friendly today v Dover Athletic’s first team and one of the subs to come on for AFC was U16 player Emerson Nwaneri, the younger brother of Ethan Nwaneri
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Really disappointed with the new kit launched today. This and the light blue make us look like chelsea or the spuds.
We need to get back to gold if we are ever going to win anything.
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So it seems both Gyokeres and Mosquera are as good as signed, with both expected to join up with our touring party in Asia, and maybe make their debut at the weekend.
Well with both these signings it leaves our first team squad looking like this
GK- Raya, Kepa, Hein
RB – Timber, White
LB – Lewis-Skelly, Calafiori, Zinchenko
CB – Saliba, Gabriel, Mosquera, Kiwior
CM – Odegaard, Nwaneri, Zumbimendi, Norgaard, Rice, Merino, Vieira, Lokonga
RW – Saka, Madueke, Nelson
LW – Martinelli, Trossard
CF – Havertz, Gyokeres, Jesus
Now that is 28 players, with 25 of them senior players, and 3 U21 players, meaning for the first time in a very long time we currently have actually filled our 25 man EPL squad. Think the 8 home grown players needed would currently be – Raya, Hein, White, Saliba, Rice, Saka, Martinelli, Nelson
So we can but hope that if or should I say when some of these players are shifted out of the club this summer we bring in replacements, and stop leaving ourselves short, and half way through the season be hearing the excuse again of short squad, or small squad, etc etc.
I have actually no faith that we will have a full 25 man senior squad by end of the transfer window, I expect a good chunk of these players to be gone, either permanent or on loan, and they won’t all be replaced, and we will be including our U21 players to make up the numbers and the 8 home grown quota too.
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just to add, I think all of the following are not wanted by Arteta as part of the squad this coming season
Hein, Zinchenko, Lokonga, Vieira, Nelson, and I think he would happily see any of Trossard, Martinelli and Jesus leave if it meant bringing in say Eze or Rodrygo
I hope that Kiwior is not sold, well certainly not if we don’t bring in a direct replacement for left side of defence.
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our current squad has a lot of players who have had major or many injuries over the last year or more,
Gabriel, Saka, Havertz, Jesus, Timber, White and Nelson have all had operations and Zinchenko, Calafiori and Lokonga have had many injuries
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Arsenal beat AC Milan 1-0 in our friendly today, Saka with the goal, and despite Kepa saving 3 penalties in the shootout we lost that 6-5.
two 15 year olds, Max Dowman and Marli Salmon played in the second half of the game.
Gabriel and Timber both missed out through injury.
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Viktor Gyokeres deal now done. Medical might be done in Singapore.
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The rumour I heard was Mikel is shagging Jesus’s wife and so will never sell him.
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I am really excited about the prospect of Dowman and Salmon and hope both go on to fulfil their potential.
Dowman was under 18’s captain and did not look out of place at that level.
Salmon was playing regularly for the under 21’s and also did not look out of place as well.
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Cristhian Mosquera officially signs and has been announced
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Noni Madueke has been reclassified as a ‘homegrown’ player by the Premier League. Madueke had previously been listed in Chelsea’s squad list as recently as February as ‘non-homegrown’. This means that if the proposed sale of Hein goes ahead then we still currently have enough homegrown players
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Although obviously it’s odds on that Nelson will go to Fulham as well.
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Arsenal are leading the race of PL clubs to sign highly rated U16 Mishel Nduka from Charlton
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yeah ian but aren’t we odds on to sign Eze
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Thats true
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Gyokeres is in the UK to complete his medical and sign for Arsenal, he flew into Luton airport earlier today
it is expected that he will fly out to join the squad in Asia once the transfer is completed.
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the will wright transfer does not seem to be getting any closer, despite a fee being agreed with Salford for the 17 year old striker a week ago, it does not seem we can agree a contract with the player. He is in the Salford squad for their friendly this evening.
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seemingly Arsenal are trying to sell Gabriel Jesus
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Gyokeres will wear the no.14 shirt
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We should of sold Jesus ages ago, certainly before Eddie left. Jesus and Zinchenko definitely raised us to another level when they arrived but we quickly outgrew Jesus and he became a hindrance, slowing up play, coming to deep and not being able to score.
I believe he had a major part in Martinelli’s downfall and lack of progress. The younger Gabriel was totally in awe of the older one and he only looked to pass to him or take on wildly extravagant shots.
Any money we get now would be a fraction of what we would of got a few seasons ago, a mistake we have made over and over again with multiple players.
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ian the latest rumors re jesus is that some clubs from Brazil are in for him, but only loan deals with option to buy, not obligation, would be a poor deal from us, but then that is what we have done for a few years now. There is reports that some clubs in Europe are after him too, better chance of getting one of them to at least have an obligation to buy
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confirmation of the Gyokeres deal is said to be at 7pm this evening
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it really seems that Hein, Zinchenko, Lokonga, Vieira, Nelson and Jesus, possibly Kiwior too, are all surplus to requirements.
For me to rid ourselves of all of these means we would have to at the very least bring in another 3 or 4, which by all reports so far is not on the agenda at all, so don’t be surprised in the coming season if we hear the old tried and tested “small squad” excuse trotted out
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David Ornstein says Fulham in advanced talks with Arsenal to sign Reiss Nelson. Discussions for 25yo centre on loan + buy option/obligation & significant fee or permanent. Agreement between #FFC / #AFC close but not done – work needed for move to materialise
so what is a significant fee, £10M, £15M, £20M, or more
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Remy Mitchell made his comeback for the U21’s today, he came on as a second half sub in their 4-1 loss in Austria. Mitchell recently rejoined AFC after leaving 2 years ago.
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Gyokeres signing announced by Arsenal
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Arsenal U18 team that played today against Wolfsburg: Tomlin, Hamill, Owusu-Gyasi, Pedro, Odaji-Ukueku, Sampang, Y. Meron, Phillips, Emerson Nwaneri, Frohock, Oba
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