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Barcelona are monitoring Mikel Arteta’s progress at Arsenal as they line the Spaniard up for a future role as manager, according to reports. The Gunners have made an outstanding start to the new Premier League season, winning ten of their first 12 fixtures with Arteta’s men sitting pretty at the...

Arsenal are on course for a club record Premier League points tally come the end of the season. The Gunners have dropped just five points after 12 matches, winning 10, drawing one and losing one. Mikel Arteta’s men sit two points ahead of Pep Guardiola’s defending champions Manchester City with...

Crystal Palace and Wilfried Zaha are not close to an agreement over a contract extension after the club verbally offered their talisman a bumper renewal. The news heightens concerns at Palace that Zaha plans to leave when his current deal expires at the end of the season. Indeed, Zaha effectively...

Bukayo Saka could be fit to play against Chelsea on Sunday with Arsenal optimistic he has not suffered a serious injury. The 21-year-old provided an assist just four minutes into the game but was forced off inside half an hour during Sunday’s 5-0 thrashing of Nottingham Forest. After initially receiving...

Arsenal have made a new contract offer to William Saliba after his brilliant start to the new season, according to David Ornstein. The Gunners have made an excellent start to the season, winning 10 of their opening 12 fixtures, and sitting top of the Premier League summit. After spending around...

Jurgen Klopp insists it is unfair to conclude that this Liverpool squad has reached the end of its cycle and says judgement must be reserved until the season ends. Liverpool’s manager accepts his team is under siege at present, with Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Leeds leaving them closer to the...

Inter Miami are “increasingly confident” they will sign Lionel Messi after the World Cup, according to reports. The Argentine, 35, has entered the final year of his deal with Paris Saint-Germain. And while the Ligue 1 outfit are keen to keep hold of him, The Athletic are now reporting that...

There were two years and 107 days between Reiss Nelson’s first league goal for Arsenal and his second. And three minutes and one second, between Nelson’s league goals number two and three. Now that’s what you call a response – and so was this. Arsenal dropped two points at Southampton...

On this most memorable of afternoons for Brighton and their new manager the message from Brighton was clear – you can take our manager, left-back and a host of staff but you won’t turn up here and leave with the three points too. There are some things, they might say,...