There are nine Arsenal first team players who have been picked by their home countries for international duty this week and next.
Here’s the list…
Bernd Leno – Germany
Kieran Tierney – Scotland
Ainsley Maitland-Niles – England
Sead Kolasinac – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Granit Xhaka – Switzerland
Bukayo Saka, Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah – England Under-21’s
Matteo Guendouzi – France Under-21’s
Best of luck to our lads as they compete for their homelands!










One of my all-time Arsenal players, Olivier Giroud, returns to Emirates Stadium on Tuesday. This time as a player for the competition, Lille. Giroud scored 105 goals in 253 appearances for the Gunners.



Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard on Man City’s punishment. “In terms of how I feel, I potentially could be affected if you like, I wouldn’t want individual players to give stuff back, that wouldn’t be right. But the club, they have to be stripped.”






Does that mean all those players who leave the country to play have to go into 14 days quarentine when they get back?