Arsenal Pre-season

Official pre-season fixture list:

Sun 14th July: Indonesia XI (a)
Wed 17th July: Vietnam (a)
Mon 22nd July: Nagoya Grampus (a)
Fri 26th July: Urawa Red (a)
Sat 3rd Aug: Napoli (h)
Sun 4th Aug: Galatasaray (h)
Sat 10th Aug: Man City (n)

The new Premier League season begins on August 17th, one week after our last friendly. The Champions League play-off round first leg will be on 20/21 August.

Can't wait for the 14th!

Can see Gnabry scoring a few goals then being over hyped

And then the Gnabry-to-Bayern rumors will start ...

Cant wait, preseason is just around the corner.

I wonder if Wayne Rooney and Cesc will play in any of our per-season games.

Looking forward to Japan

man you guys start preseason really early we have our first training around the 25th of july lol

not many top teams in that fixture list. it would be alot better of you met more team from the top 4 leagues as opposed to those random asian teams (no disrespect to them of course)

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halamadrid2 wrote:man you guys start preseason really early we have our first training around the 25th of july lol

not many top teams in that fixture list. it would be alot better of you met more team from the top 4 leagues as opposed to those random asian teams (no disrespect to them of course)

Our pre-seasons have always been consistent. Up until 2009 or so, we would visit Austria for a training camp and a few matches, before taking on Barnet at their ground, and then the Emirates cup.

I preferred this, more relaxed. Plus, we started the seasons better.

However, in today's world, visiting all our fans around the world is understandable.

1 month and 1 day to go until first game of pre-season 

2 weeks until first pre-season game.

 

Players are back for their first training session today:

  

He dont want to be here, poor guy, he turned down Barcelona for us. 

The first batch of Arsenal players, largely comprised of those who did not participate in international fixtures in June, returned to London Colney today for pre-season training, and, as ever, there was a strong contingent of young players involved in training with the main group.

There were nine first-team players who joined in full-training, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Marouane Chamakh, Carl Jenkinson, Theo Walcott, Lukasz Fabianski, Ryo, Mikel Arteta, Aaron Ramsey and Kieran Gibbs all involved, whilst Jack Wilshere trained separately with the fitness coaches.

Emmanuel Frimpong did gym work indoors as he is still recovering from an injury ascertained whilst on loan at Fulham, with Abou Diaby also currently sidelined. The next batch of players are due to return on Monday, with Wojciech Szczesny, Bacary Sagna, Per Mertesacker, Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Koscielny, Tomas Rosicky, Lukas Podolski, Olivier Giroud and Gervinho all due to return in time for the club’s four-stop pre-season tour of Asia.

Santi Cazorla and Nacho Monreal, meanwhile, will be afforded several weeks off following their exploits with Spain at the Confederations Cup, whilst Yaya Sanogo is still participating in the U20 World Cup with France. Nicklas Bendtner is poised to depart the club, whilst a decision has yet to be made over Joel Campbell. Andre Santos’ loan deal with Gremio does not officially expire until the end of July, but Johan Djourou and Francis Coquelin have both already departed on loan for the forthcoming campaign to Hamburg and Freiburg respectively.

As far as the youngsters are concerned, Damian Martinez, Nico Yennaris, Thomas Eisfeld, Chuks Aneke, Serge Gnabry, Gedion Zelalem, Ignasi Miquel, Chuba Akpom and Kristoffer Olsson all trained with the first-team, with several members of that batch hoping to earn a seat on the plane for the trip to Asia.

The following young professionals, including right-back Hector Bellerin, who signed a new, long-term contract with the club today, were also present, but trained in a separate group.

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As far as the youngsters are concerned, Damian Martinez, Nico Yennaris, Thomas Eisfeld, Chuks Aneke, Serge Gnabry, Gedion Zelalem, Ignasi Miquel, Chuba Akpom and Kristoffer Olsson all trained with the first-team, with several members of that batch hoping to earn a seat on the plane for the trip to Asia.

Nice  

Gnabry and Miquel are a certain for the tour

First training session with the ball today:

Is Akpom in the training?

I believe this is him:



Miquel, Yennaris, Aneke, Eisfeld and Gnabry are all there, too. Not sure about Zelalem.

Hope Eisfeld and Gnabry goes with the team to Asia

Zelalem, Olsson, Akpom, Gnabry, Aneke, Miquel, Eisfeld and Yennaris all took part in first team training today via @OliPriceBates