Marcelo Flores surprised some Arsenal fans when he moved on loan to Real Oviedo in this transfer window.

Although he is highly rated at the club, at 18, he was expected to continue learning the ropes back in London.

However, he is now set to play senior team football in Spain in this campaign.

When he decided he wanted to leave on loan, several clubs wanted to add him to their squad, but he chose Oviedo and his agent has now opened up on the decision-making.

Speaking about his client’s move, Guillermo Zamarripa said they wanted him to leave all the noise about him behind and join a club where he would play his game and develop himself under the radar.

Kieran Maguire believes Arsenal is making the right business decisions as they continue to expose their brands to new markets.

Mikel Arteta’s side has been making progress on the playing front and the club has been spending a lot of money to build on each success.

These funds are coming from somewhere and the club will need to make them back.

They have been partnering with different brands in various industries which expose them to new markets, some have never been explored by a football club.

Financial expert, Maguire believes it is a smart thing to do, and he expects it to pay off for the Gunners, eventually.

Noel Whelan is convinced that West Ham will sell Arsenal target Jarrod Bowen for a huge transfer fee even if he doesn’t sign a new contract.

The England international emerged as one of the finest attackers in the country last season and he has continued to improve.

Mikel Arteta is adding new men to his squad, and he considers the former Hull City player one of the best men to improve his group.

However, West Ham is one of England’s ambitious clubs and they want to keep him.

They know they will eventually be powerless to do so when a top club comes, but they will certainly earn a good fee from selling him.

Arsenal is famous for developing some of the world’s best players and they have built on that reputation under Mikel Arteta.

The Spanish gaffer has the likes of Emile Smith Rowe and Bukayo Saka as key members of his team.

Both graduated from the club’s Hale End academy, following in the footstep of the likes of Jack Wilshere.

Their development will serve as a motivation to several other youngsters in the club’s academy now and another player could be promoted to the senior squad this summer.

The Daily Mail claims Miguel Azeez is the youngster closest to earning more minutes in the first team.

An Austin, Texas, jury on Friday found that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook parents $45.2 million in punitive damages for broadcasting defamatory claims that the 2012 school massacre was a government plot—and that the parents were in on the operation. That was on top of a separate set of compensatory damages issued this week, totaling $4.1 million.

The long-awaited ruling came after Jones, the founder of InfoWars, was found liable last year for defaming the parents, and it represented the first climax of three such hearings to assess how much Jones owes his victims.

But along with the other future hearings, Jones could soon be embroiled in another high-stakes legal drama after his lawyers in the defamation case mistakenly sent an enormous trove of his personal phone data to the legal counsel … for the Sandy Hook parents. This jaw-dropping development produced considerable courtroom drama—as my colleague Abigail Weinberg documented on Wednesday (watch to see Jones’s reaction happen in real-time). It also opened a surprise door for investigators working for the January 6 commission, which is trying to piece together how the Capitol Insurrection was potentially coordinated among a band of far-right operatives and extremists.

News quickly broke that the committee was preparing to issue a subpoena for the data, which apparently consists of two years’ worth of texts. Mark Bankston, a lawyer representing the parents, told the Texas court he was now in the possession of “intimate messages with Roger Stone”—the Trump-aligned operative—and that he was prepared to hand the cache over if the judge, Maya Guerra Gamble, cleared the way. She did just that on Friday. As Mother Jones has previously reported, Stone has multiple connections to a group of Oath Keepers, the far-right militia accused of helping to orchestrate a plot to disrupt the 2020 presidential election. (Both Stone and Jones have maintained they played no role in promoting violence.)

So, what would investigators be looking for exactly? Bankston doesn’t know. “We certainly saw text messages from as far back as 2019,” he said. “In terms of what all is on that phone, it’s going to take a little while to figure that out.”

Senate Democrats’ climate and health care bill is one big step closer to becoming law after the body’s parliamentarian signed off on most of the package on Saturday morning.

The “Inflation Reduction Act,” which Vox called “the biggest thing the US has ever done to tackle climate change,” includes nearly $370 billion of climate spending. It would also allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and reduce the deficit through measures including a new minimum tax on some of the country’s largest corporations. 

Less than two weeks ago, there seemed to be little chance of Democrats passing major legislation before the midterm elections in November. But in late July, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin, who’d helped tank President Joe Biden’s more ambitious Build Back Better package, shocked Washington by reaching a deal that they said would lead to hundreds of billions in climate spending while also raising revenue.

The key question then became what Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the other major Democratic obstacle to Senate action, would do. Late Thursday, Sinema said she was largely behind the bill aside from a provision that would have removed a tax break used by private equity billionaires that even Donald Trump has said allows plutocrats to get “away with murder”. Sinema added, however, that her overall support was still “subject to the parliamentarian’s review.”

On Saturday, Democrats cleared that hurdle when they announced that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough—the nonpartisan expert in charge of determining whether legislation conforms with Senate rules—concluded that most of the bill can be passed through reconciliation. It means that Democrats only need a bare majority—not the 60 votes required to overcome a Republican filibuster—to pass the bill. The votes in favor are expected to be 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaker.

Lucas Torreira has finally signed his contract as a new player for Galatasaray, according to Fabrizio Romano.

The midfielder has been surplus to requirements at Arsenal since Mikel Arteta became the club’s manager and he spent the last two seasons on loan at Atletico Madrid and Fiorentina.

He was widely expected to join the latter on a permanent deal, but they couldn’t find an agreement with Arsenal to keep him.

He returned to the Emirates for preseason, but he did not finish it with the Gunners and left to find a new club.

Reports linked him with a move to several clubs, but Galatasaray has finally struck a deal to sign him.

Former Tottenham manager, Tim Sherwood believes Arsenal and his former club can challenge Manchester City and Liverpool for the Premier League this season.

The Gunners are continuing to rebuild their squad after nearly finishing inside the top four last season and they have added some new names to the group.

Mikel Arteta’s side started their campaign strongly with a hard-fought 2-0 win against Crystal Palace last night.

That result means they topped the Premier League table before other clubs play from today.

It was a dream start for most of the club’s fans and it is a level of performance they can maintain throughout the season.

Gary Neville was impressed by the performance of William Saliba on his Premier League debut for Arsenal and he has compared the Frenchman to Rio Ferdinand.

After signing for Arsenal in 2019, Saliba finally debuted for the Gunners last night in their 2-0 win against Crystal Palace.

The Frenchman was the best defender on the pitch and arguably Arsenal’s best player on the night.

He was so hard to beat and was available to snuff out every danger being posed by the Eagles.

Much credit for Arsenal’s clean sheet will go to him and former Manchester United man turned pundit, Neville, was impressed.

It is confirmed that Arsenal Women will face Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Chelsea at Emirates Stadium this season!

Arsenal Women will take on Tottenham Hotspur at Emirates Stadium in the Barclays Women’s Super League on Saturday, September 24 – and tickets are on sale right now.

In the first of three WSL games to take place at Emirates Stadium during the 2022/23 campaign, Jonas Eidevall’s side will return for the second-ever North London Derby in N5, following the 3-0 win over Tottenham back on 4 May 2022.

The match will kick off at 1.30pm (UK time) on Saturday, September 24 and will be broadcast live on the BBC.

There has been unprecedented demand for tickets since the Lionesses’ stunning Euro 2022 final win over Germany  – and it will be great to welcome our England heroes back home to Emirates Stadium.