Speaking to the Independent, Jack Wilshere has admitted that he would be open to leaving Arsenal on a permanent basis.

Wilshere was touted to become a star for Arsenal after he broke into the first team back in 2008 at the tender age of just 16 and at the time, the midfielder certainly showed enough talent to justify his initial hype.

Unfortunately though, a host of persistent injury problems over the last few seasons meant that Wilshere’s involvement for Arsenal has severely limited and as a result, there was major concern that the midfielder would never be able to fulfill his immense potential.

Speaking to L’Equipe (translated by Sport Witness), Olivier Giroud has stated his desire to remain at Arsenal for the foreseeable future.

Giroud joined Arsenal from Montpellier during the summer of 2012 for a fee believed to be in the region of around £9.6 million and it has to be said that the Frenchman has proven to be a decent signing for the Gunners.

Although Giroud has often been subjected to criticism from a section of the Arsenal supporters for his apparent lack of mobility, the striker’s goalscoring ratio at the Emirates Stadium has been more than decent.

Speaking to the Guardian, agent Albert Botines has gone on to reveal that Hector Bellerin is close to putting pen to paper on a new deal with Arsenal.

Bellerin has been a revelation since establishing himself as a regular for the Arsenal first team back in the 2014/15 Premier League season.

Having been handed an opportunity to the unfortunate injury to Mathieu Debuchy, Bellerin went on to prove his worth very early on and the Spaniard was arguably the best right-back in the Premier League last year.

As quoted by the Metro, agent Vincenzo Morabito has made big claims that Arsenal had placed a record breaking bid for Borussia Dortmund star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang over the summer.

Arsenal were clearly in the market to sign a new striker this summer and a host of names were bandied about in the media as potential targets for the Gunners.

Carlos Bacca, Gonzalo Higuain, Romelu Lukaku and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were just some of the world class players touted to join Arsenal during the summer but despite all the speculation, none of the aforementioned players arrived at the Emirates Stadium.

According to reports from Italian outlet Transfer Market Web (the Daily Star in English), Arsenal are currently casting a close eye on Porto sensation Otavio.

Arsenal fans were most certainly left very frustrated at the start of the summer due to the fact that the club were taking too much time in strengthening the squad.

While Arsenal did secure the services of Granit Xhaka and Rob Holding pretty early into the transfer window, fans really had to wait for the Gunners to finally bring in a top class central defender as well as a striker.