Mikel Arteta reportedly hired a team of professional pickpockets at an Arsenal dinner to teach his players a lesson.
Arteta has led the Gunners to consecutive second-placed finishes in the Premier League and has earned rave reviews for changing the fortunes of the club in his four-and-a-half years at the club.
He s an odd bloke though, as became pretty clear in the All or Nothing documentary that followed him and his team in the 2021/2022 campaign, and now The Athletic has provided further detail of his eccentricity in a piece titled How Mikel Arteta rebuilt Arsenal in his own image .
It includes explanations of how he s changed the culture at the club, how he interacts with the players and coaches, his relationship with sporting director Edu and how that s been…
According to reports, Arsenal striker Eddie Nketiah is not willing to reduce his £120,000 weekly salary to join Nottingham Forest.
are willing to sell Nketiah this summer with Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz ahead of him in Mikel Arteta s striker pecking order.
The 25-year-old was an unused substitute in the Gunners Premier League opener against Wolves on Saturday.
He featured 37 times across all competitions last season but only started 10 times in the Premier League, featuring a decent amount in the first half of the season before barely appearing after the turn of the year.
His most recent Premier League goal came against Sheffield United last October, netting a hat-trick on the day.
It is no surprise to see that Arsenal are open to cashing in…
Scottish Premiership side Rangers will face both Manchester United and Tottenham in the first stage of the new-look Europa League.
United were also handed a reunion with their former manager Jose Mourinho at the hybrid draw in Monaco, where teams were pulled out of the pots by rank then each allocated opponents by the UEFA computer.
The revamped format sees all 36 teams forming a single league, with each entrant playing four home games and four away.
Scottish Premiership side Rangers were the first team drawn out of pot one, with the algorithm determining a home game against Spurs as well a trip to Old Trafford.
Lyon, Olympiacos, Union Saint-Gilloise, Malmo, Steaua Bucharest and Nice complete the initial Europa League fixtures for Philippe Clement’s si…
Rafael van der Vaart has hit out at Ronald Koeman for dropping Joshua Zirkzee after the Manchester United s star s display in the 5-2 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday.
– signed by United for £36.5m from Bologna in the summer – got a goal and an assist in his first ever start for the Netherlands but will drop to the bench for their clash with Germany on Tuesday.
Dutch boss Koeman had already said ahead of the Bosnia win that Zirkzee would start the first game and Ajax forward Brian Brobbey would come in again Julian Nagelsmann s side.
Both Van der Vaert and fellow NOS pundit Pierre van Hooijdonk claimed it was a shame that Zirkzee wouldn t be given another chance to impress.
“What does Koeman gain from this?” Van der Vaart said on Dut…
Arsenal legend Paul Merson reckons Man Utd forward Marcus Rashford will continue his scoring run against Crystal Palace over the weekend.
The Red Devils have had a mixed start to the new season with supporters fearing the worst after their before the international break.
But they have since bounced back to record a at St Mary s Stadium in the Premier League and .
Rashford had been one of the players who had received the most stick following their dodgy start in the Premier League, with the England international struggling for form for over a season.
But he hit the back of the net against Southampton last weekend and his brace against Barnsley in midweek will have given him further confidence ahead of their clash with Crystal Palace on Saturday.
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Despite losing more than $314,000 in hockey bets for the month, Maryland Lottery and Gaming reported $254.5 million in total handle for June which led to nearly $3 million in sports betting taxes.
The state reported $254,476,790 in sports bets for the month and paid out $227,399,671 in prizes to state bettors for a 10.6% hold. Maryland has reported an average 13.3% hold for the fiscal year to date, according to Maryland Lottery and Gaming.
FanDuel Sportsbook reported $108.6 million in online sports betting handle and $10.8 million in taxable win for June, both the highest totals for the month for any operator. It also spent the most in promotional play, reporting nearly $3.5 million.
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In the next Alabama football coach odds, Dan Lanning is the favorite to replace Nick Saban. At +200 odds, Lanning has 33% implied probability to become the next Alabama head coach.
SBD odds as of January 11th.
Dan Lanning the Frontrunner
The current favorite in the odds to be the next Alabama football coach is Dan Lanning. The 37-year-old Missouri native is the current head coach at Oregon, where he has led the Ducks to a 22-5 record over the past two seasons.
Prior to his time at Oregon, Lanning served as the defensive coordinator at Georgia, where he helped lead the Bulldogs to the national championship game in 2021. Lanning also has experience as a graduate assistant at Alabama, which could give him an edge in the hiring process.
Dan Lanning is the ex…