Arsenal fans have been celebrating a small win this season as their team has clinched a return to the Champions League after several seasons out.

The last time they qualified for Europe’s top club competition was in 2017, so it is great to have them back and the club is now planning for life among the big boys.

However, Give Me Sport has analysed how easy or hard their group could be and the Gunners might have a very tough return to the competition.

From their analysis, if Arsenal does not win the Premier League, they will miss out on pot one and because their coefficient has been low, they could also miss out on pot two.

If they end up in pot three, they risk facing a league champion like Bayern Munich and a tough side like Real Madrid, who are set to be in pot two before a smaller club from pot four.

Arsenal has been in the market for a new defender in the last few months and they might replace Rob Holding at the end of this campaign.

The defender has not been in great form since he has been at the club and continues to struggle.

As Mikel Arteta’s side prepares to return to the Champions League, they are set to add some new names to their group to strengthen it.

As reported by Foot Mercato, one man on their radar is RB Leipzig’s Mohamed Simakan.

The defender is versatile and plays very well wherever he is asked to fill in at the club.

Arsenal is reportedly eyeing a move for Southampton man Kyle Walker-Peters as the Saints edge closer to relegation from the Premier League.

Soton has some very fine talents in their squad, yet they have been unable to shake off their poor form and could be relegated with two games left to play.

Teams are now targeting some of their players and The Athletic reveals Arsenal has an interest in Walker-Peters.

The full-back has an affiliation with Tottenham, who groomed him, yet the Gunners want to add him to their squad for the right price.

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In this week’s New Yorker, JR Moehringer breaks all the rules of ghostwriting by ceasing to be invisible and asserting his hiding-in-plain-sight presence as the writer for Britain’s exiled Prince Harry’s blockbuster memoir Spare. Moehringer offers plenty to satisfy Royal obsessives, providing glimpses into their process, their relationship, and the genuine affection and respect that seems to have grown between him and his subject. Here are two guys, from unfathomably different worlds, connected by nearly obsessive love for their deceased mothers, and calling each other “dude.”

We are given the opportunity to witness Harry’s stubbornness as an example of the inevitable tensions that arise between the writer and the author. In the opening scene, Moehringer describes Harry’s repeated insistence on including his retort to soldiers who tortured him during his military training, and Moehringer’s repeated refusal to do so. (Moehringer won that one.) We see Meghan providing treats while Moehringer labors in his word factory on their California estate. And we have an intimate view of the outsized controversies that appeared after the memoir was published. Moehringer sets the record straight about an egregious passage in the book that mentions a TK Maxx sale the prince claimed to wait for every year.  As Moehringer writes:

Not so fast, said the monarchists at TK Maxx corporate, who rushed out a statement declaring that TK Maxx never has sales, just great savings all the time! Oh, snap! Gotcha, Prince George Santos! Except that people around the world immediately posted screenshots of TK Maxx touting sales on its official Twitter account. (Surely TK Maxx’s effort to discredit Harry’s memoir was unrelated to the company’s long-standing partnership with Prince Charles and his charitable trust.)

Quite a relief to have that sorted out.

But for those of us, who have ever been ghostwriters, and I have ghosted seven books, (please don’t ask for whom) the real revelations were in Moehringer’s descriptions of his own experiences in the ever-mysterious process between writer and author: the back and forth, the disagreements, the negotiations, the sometimes confused pride of authorship. I’ve always said that what appeals to me about this role is the opportunity to do two professions that always interested me but ones I would never have managed: actor and psychoanalyst. But I am a mere mortal.

Arsenal is preparing an offer to land Crystal Palace star Wilfried Zaha, according to multiple reports.

Zaha has been one of the finest players in the Premier League for several seasons and has often been linked with a move to the Emirates.

Adding him to the squad seems to be an important goal for Arsenal now the attacker is running down his contract.

Palace wants him to extend his stay with a new deal, but Zaha seems keen on joining a bigger club to test himself in top competitions like the Champions League.

Football Insider says Arsenal is looking to take advantage of this to add him to their squad in the next transfer window.

On Thursday, the Louisiana House passed a bill to make some juvenile criminal records public in three majority-Black parishes. Sponsors argue that providing the public with these records would offer transparency in crime-afflicted areas. If signed into law, the measure would serve as a two-year pilot program.

Critics of the measure, House Bill 321, say the measure is racist, noting that the three parishes to which it would apply—Caddo, East Baton Rouge, and Orleans—are 50 percent, 47 percent, and 60 percent Black, respectively, with Black residents making up the majority of their populations, according to US Census Bureau data. The bill would not be rolled out in Jefferson Parish, however, which is larger than both Cado and Orleans parishes and is majority white.

“Let’s be real. We know what this is about. The optics are obvious. Let’s stop playing around with this,” Rep. Edmond Jordan (D-Baton Rouge) told the Times-Picayune. “If you’re from Baton Rouge, if you’re from Shreveport, if you’re from New Orleans, you should be offended by this.”

Advocates in favor of the bill have said its aim is to increase accountability. “This bill is about public safety,” Republican Rep. Debbie Villio, who represents Jefferson Parish and sponsored the bill, said on the House floor, according to the Times-Picayune. “The public has a right to know.”

But criminal justice advocates question why juvenile court records—which would include not just convictions but also accused crimes—need to be made public in the first place. “I think, in this instance, it is becoming very clear because of the locations [for this legislation] that there are certain children—particularly Black children—who we are unwilling to provide a second chance to, and we quickly look at them and decide, ‘Oh, they are just not going to be better,’” Kristen Rome, the co-executive director of Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, told the Associated Press. “Those records are going to always be available for everyone to see…and that creates a stigma, which creates an environment where they can’t thrive.”

Arsenal retains a slim hope of winning the Premier League this season after they lost their top spot to Manchester City.

The Gunners can take the title race to the final day of the season if they win their remaining games and City starts to drop points.

The stakes are high for both clubs and an AI has now predicted the league table by the end of the season.

Opta’s AI has now revealed what the league standings will look like after the last matches have been played and Arsenal finishes the term second.

It gives Mikel Arteta’s side a 90.7 per cent chance of ending the term in that position.

Chris Sutton has warned Arsenal about facing Brighton in the Premier League this weekend and he does not believe the Seagulls will lose to the Gunners.

Arsenal has returned to form in their last two games as they seek to still win the Premier League if Manchester City drops points.

The Gunners have lost their advantageous position and must continue to win to stay close to City.

Brighton has been one of the toughest clubs to face in the Premier League this season and defeated Manchester United recently.

The Seagulls are dreaming of an unlikely European spot at the end of this term, so they have something to play for and will be determined to beat Arsenal.

Joe Willock has opened up on leaving Arsenal for Newcastle on a permanent transfer and admits it hurts him that the Gunners wanted him to go.

The midfielder was groomed at the Emirates and was highly regarded at the club, so he expected to return and get a chance under Mikel Arteta after a successful loan spell at Newcastle United.

However, when he returned to the club in the summer, he realised Arsenal were eager to offload him and he subsequently made the move to Newcastle permanent.

He is now enjoying life under Eddie Howe and might play in the Champions League next season.

However, he wishes his time at Arsenal ended differently and recalls via The Telegraph:

By now, it is clear Arsenal will not win the WSL title unless something special happens, even if they win all their remaining games. Something special could be Manchester City beating Manchester United on May 21st, and then, on May 27th, Liverpool also beating the Red Devils. This something special doesn’t end with United’s results; Chelsea’s results also matter. West Ham must beat Chelsea on May 17th, the Gunners must get a point over them on May 21st, and Reading must beat Chelsea on Saturday, May 27th.

Man City may try to take the 3rd place slot, but tying with Arsenal, who’ve played a game less, is a tricky position they are in if they are to qualify for Champions League football. Eidevall isn’t even worried about the Citizens, and he isn’t foolish to think they are winning the league; he wants his team to finish as high as they can, as he hinted this week. “I don’t care [about Manchester City’s results],” he said before the 4-0 Brighton win. “We have four more games; we have to take one at a time. Do our very best in every one of those games. If we do, we will finish as high as possible in the table.”

“That’s the only thing we can influence. It’s boring. But that’s where we need to put our focus. You have to look ahead. To focus on the next opponent.”

Arsenal women are likely to finish 3rd, and Gooners ought to take that and say it was wasn’t a bad season considering the injury struggles Eidevall has had to deal with.

Come next season with a good summer transfer window, and Miedema and co. returning from injury, Arsenal can do what they haven’t done in about four years: win the WSL title.