Pre-Season 2017

First team training started this week. Some pictures:



Welbeck, Ozil and Kolasinac training.



New fitness coach Darren Burgess talking with Wenger.



Lucas, Ozil and Donyell Malen (Dick Law sneaking in the background)



The Jeff and Pre-Season King Akpom also there.

Malen/Nelson hype

Can't wait for the boys to be out in australia, not long now!!!

A reminder of our friendlies:

Thur - 13/7 - Sydney FC vs Arsenal
Sat - 15/7 - WSW vs Arsenal
Wed - 19/7 - Arsenal vs Bayern
Sat - 22/7 - Arsenal vs Chelsea
Sat - 29/7 - Arsenal vs Benfica
Sun - 30/7 - Arsenal vs Sevilla

Cant believe the season about to start.

GenBlizkin wrote:Can't wait for the boys to be out in australia, not long now!!!

You attending any games?

MAD JENS

Mad Jens gonna pick a fight with some Eastern Europeans in the Europa League. Can't wait.

My Emirates Cup tickets came through today. Seeing Sevilla/Leipzig and Arsenal/Benfica. Lacazette better play on Day 1 ffs.

Jay how much are the tickets costing you?

Jay29 wrote:

Welcome back.

Raptorgunner wrote:Jay how much are the tickets costing you?

£39 per ticket for club level seats.

Think it's £30 per person for bottom and top tier seats.

Considering you get to watch two matches it's great value.

That is great deal, enjoy it. I hope this year I can make it to watch a game. I met an Arsenal season ticket holder in Toronto who offer face value if me and my friend come and watch any Arsenal game with him.

That is great deal, enjoy it. I hope this year I can make it to watch a game. I met an Arsenal season ticket holder in Toronto who offer face value if me and my friend come and watch any Arsenal game with him.

Arsenal continued their pre-season preparations today, with a further four youngsters being selected to train with the senior squad.

Goalkeeper Ryan Huddart was amongst those involved in the session along with right-back Tafari Moore and midfielder Ismael Bennacer, both of whom spent time away from the club on loan last season.

Perhaps the most intriguing inclusion was that of Jordi Osei-Tutu, the young right-back who would be well suited to playing as a wing-back in 3-4-2-1 formation that Arsenal deployed towards the end of last season.

The nine youngsters that trained with the first-team yesterday – Reiss Nelson, Cohen Bramall, Matt Macey, Joe Willock, Marcus McGuane, Donyell Malen, Eddie Nketiah, Dan Crowley and Jon Toral – were all in attendance again.

First-team squad member Jeff Reine-Adelaide, meanwhile, wasn’t involved as he continues to recover from the injury that he suffered last campaign.

https://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/jordi-osei-tutu-and-ismael-bennacer-amongst-13-youngsters-to-train-with-arsenal-first-team/

RealGunner wrote:

GenBlizkin wrote:Can't wait for the boys to be out in australia, not long now!!!

You attending any games?

The Wanderers game on the saturday, thursday is a no go due to work.

Another new coach?

Praise the lord

We should get the squad list tomorrow.

No idea who'll play right back in Australia. Bellerin, Chambers and Maitland-Niles are still on holiday, Gabriel is injured, Jenkinson and Debuchy are being left behind (apparently) and our youth right backs played a friendly today so probably aren't being included.

I guess Ox is going to play RWB? Assuming he's even going. I've seen nothing about the international players being back in training.

Maybe Coquelin will play there.

My guess at the squad:

Cech, Ospina, Martinez, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Bielik, Kolasinac, Monreal, Gibbs, Coquelin, Xhaka, Elneny, Ramsey, Chamberlain, Iwobi, Ozil, Reine-Adelaide, Nelson, Malen, Welbeck, Giroud, Lacazette

Excited to see Nelson

Squad travelling to Austrlia:

Keepers: Petr Cech, David Ospina, Emi Martinez

Defenders: Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny, Krystian Bielik, Sead Kolasinac, Nacho Monreal, Cohen Bramall

Midfielders: Francis Coquelin, Mohamed Elneny, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Granit Xhaka, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil, Joe Willock, Reiss Nelson, Alex Iwobi, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Forwards: Alexandre Lacazette, Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott, Eddie Nketiah, Donyell Malen

Players left behind:

Wojciech Szczesny, Kieran Gibbs, Carl Jenkinson, Mathieu Debuchy, Joel Campbell, Lucas Perez (all set to be sold), Dan Crowley (going on loan, probably), Jeff Reine-Adelaide, Jack Wilshere (both injured) and Chuba Akpom (no idea - probably being sold as well)

Players still on holiday:

Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Calum Chambers, Hector Bellerin, Alexis Sanchez

A 25-man squad has been named for the club's two-week tour of Sydney, Shanghai and Beijing.

The squad leave the UK on Sunday night, arriving in Sydney early on Tuesday morning local time.

Shortly after arrival in Sydney, Arsène Wenger will hold a media conference, when he will discuss the travelling squad in further detail.

On tour, the team will play a total of four matches. Two in Sydney, against local sides Sydney FC on Thursday, July 13 and Western Sydney Wanderers on Saturday, July 15.

The squad then flies to China, where we play Bayern Munich in Shanghai on Wednesday, July 19, before heading to Beijing where we play Chelsea in the Bird's Nest Stadium on Saturday, July 22.

Ticket details for our matches on tour can be found here.

Travelling squad

Petr Cech (GK)
Emi Martinez (GK)
David Ospina (GK)
Krystian Bielik
Cohen Bramall
Francis Coquelin
Mohamed Elneny
Olivier Giroud
Alex Iwobi
Sead Kolasinac
Laurent Koscielny
Alexandre Lacazette
Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Donyell Malen
Per Mertesacker
Nacho Monreal
Reiss Nelson
Eddie Nketiah
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Mesut Ozil
Aaron Ramsey
Theo Walcott
Danny Welbeck
Joe Willock
Granit Xhaka


Read more at https://www.arsenal.com/news/travelling-squad-tour-announced#Q6LHm1mgjfUGGLzp.99

Looks like Akpom has been binned. Good decision. Somehow couldn't even surpass Afobe. Him and Aneke were supposed to be the new Vieira-Henry

no RB as we discussed earlier so AMN is going to get a lot of game time. Might see Coquelin there too I suppose.

Interested in seeing Cohen 'Roberto Carlos' Bramall and Reiss 'Jay Emanuel Thomas' Nelson in pre season.

Giroud isn't being sold yet i suppose. I do hope we keep him tbh. Good guy.

The squad has arrived in Australia.

Fan parties and open training sessions to come before Thursday's game. Should be plenty of pictures and videos to share.