The 2020/21 season officially begins for Arsenal later this week when he faces Premier League champion Liverpool at the Community Shield in Wembley.
After a short break after their final FA Cup win over Chelsea, Mikel Arteta’s Gunners are entering their preseason as they watch their first full season with their former captain in the dugout.
It may be just a new look for the Gunners, with William Saliba, 19, highly qualified, returning from his season back to Saint-Etienne’s training years club and Brazilian mid-centre Gabriel Magalhaes imminent.
With Arteta to build a team in his image, the Spaniard will have a big improvement over last season’s eighth position, his lowest position since 1995.
Here are all the news of the club.
Arsenal academy graduate Ainsley Maitland-Niles is expected to leave his club for years of training in the coming days, Wolverhampton Wanderers in complex conversations with the player.
According to Sky Sports, his report states that Nuno Espirito Santo is willing to help his team after Jonny Otto’s anterior cruciate ligament injury, which could set him aside until 2021.
Maitland-Niles played 32 games for Arsenal last season, adding the FA Cup final, the 90 minutes as a left-back when Arteta’s men beat Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley.
Philippe Coutinho, a Brazilian foreigner linked to Arsenal, is expected to talk about his long career with Barcelona later this week.
The 28-year-old was on loan at Bayern Munich in his triple campaign, but the Bavarian club has no plans to give him an indefinite contract.
The star represented through Kia Joorabchian would be in the Emirates this summer as part of a loan deal.
“Of course I have to go back to Barcelona and then we’re going to stop by to see what happens,” Coutinho said after the Bayern Champions League final win over PSG (via The Express).
“I didn’t think about it much, I just aimed at the final.
“What I can say is that I need to paint hard to have a wonderful year, but let’s see what happens. “
The Daily Star reports that Arteta had a direct influence on persuading Rodri to leave Atletico Madrid and point out the summer of Manchester City.
City complied with the terms of his contract, paying Atletico a clause of 62. 6 million pounds to point to the Spanish international, a movement that Arteta is expected to emulate along with Thomas Partey.
Ghanaian is said to have a 42 million pound release clause, which Arsenal would have to pay if it needs to keep it away from the Spanish capital. The latest report suggests arteta will talk to Partey to convince him to move to the Emirates.
Leeds United are expected to enter their youth ranks by hiring 18-year-old Arsenal striker Sam Greenwood for a six-figure fee, according to The Athletic.
The newly promoted club’s academy was recently upgraded to Category 1, and they temporarily added promising young talent, with Greenwood in a position to follow in the footsteps of Ajax young Dani van den Heuvel and Cody Drameh of Fulham, moving to West Yorkshire.
Greenwood left sunderland’s training years club to sign for Arsenal in 2018 and signed his first senior contract last year. Last season he made 22 appearances for Arsenal’s youth, scoring six goals.