Arsenal have confirmed the departures of winger Ryo Miyaichi to German club St Pauli and defender Semi Ajayi to Cardiff.

Arsenal have confirmed the departures of winger Ryo Miyaichi to German club St Pauli and defender Semi Ajayi to Cardiff.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger feels his toughest decisions over the summer will be which players to let go.

Scotland 1 Northern Ireland 0: A late header by substitute Christophe Berra gave Scotland a narrow but deserved 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in their Vauxhall International Challenge match at Hampden Park.

Arsenal face an anxious wait to find out the extent of the hamstring injury to England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Arsenal loanee won’t be part of the Nerazzurri’s Europa League campaign.

Now that the dust has settled on the January winter transfer window, a number of clubs hoping to have made the signings that will make the difference for them between now and May.

Deadline Day Moves in Bold

Arsenal are expected to press ahead with their interest in Valencia centre-back Gabriel Paulista following the completion of a deal for teenage midfielder Krystian Bielik from Legia Warsaw.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has accepted an apology from goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny for smoking but has hit out at claims made by German striker Lukas Podolski after his move to Inter Milan.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident he has the "many solutions" in attack needed to secure a successful end to the season, but warned against expecting too much too soon from Theo Walcott.

Arsenal have confirmed German forward Lukas Podolski has completed a loan move to Inter Milan for the remainder of the 2014/15 season.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident he has the “many solutions” in attack needed to secure a successful end to the season, but warned against expecting too much too soon from Theo Walcott.

Manager Arsene Wenger would not have walked out on Arsenal if they had lost the FA Cup final last season, and is determined to do all he can to deliver another open-top bus parade around Islington in the summer.

“This is not the first time it has happened. We did not defend well enough in the final third, and we paid a heavy price. It is a self-inflicted defeat.”

Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck (thigh) is a doubt for the Barclays Premier League trip to Southampton on New Year’s Day.

The Premier League transfer window opens on Saturday morning and closes at 11pm on February 2.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called for the establishment of an independent panel to help stamp out diving and to retrospectively ban those found guilty.

Forward Danny Welbeck has stressed Arsenal cannot afford to get ahead of themselves despite having clawed their way back into striking distance of the Barclays Premier League top four.

Arsene Wenger accepts all managers face a "permanent tribunal", wherever their team is placed in the Premier League.

Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey hopes his wonder goal against Galatasaray in Istanbul can help spark a run which kick-starts the Gunners’ domestic campaign - and dedicated the victory to under-fire boss Arsene Wenger.

Aaron Ramsey feels Arsenal should not fear anybody in the last 16 of the Champions League after his "best goal" helped silence the critics as the Gunners won 4-1 at Galatasaray.

Twitter have compiled a list of all the events of the year that got Irish people talking.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will focus on recovering domestic form to be in the best possible shape for a potential tough draw in the last 16 of the Champions League next year.

As 2014 draws to a close, it’s always interesting to take a look back at the year and Twitter is a very handy way to help us remember all the events - big and small - that got everyone talking

Champions League Group D

Galatasaray 1 Arsenal 4

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger intends to answer his growing critics the only way he knows how – by guiding the team to victory over Galatasaray in Istanbul tonight.

Champions League Group D

Republic of Ireland international midfielder Glenn Whelan has revealed he defied medical opinion to return to action from a broken leg for Stoke City ahead of schedule.

PREMIER LEAGUE:

Arsenal put their recent troubles behind them tonight as they beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium and qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League with a match to spare.

Germany picked up their obligatory group win over Gibraltar but the expected flurry of goals failed to arrive as they only managed to score four without reply in Nuremberg.

Arsene Wenger feels Arsenal are slowly finding the right balance to kick-start their Barclays Premier League campaign.

Manager Arsene Wenger is confident Arsenal can use their dramatic stoppage-time victory at Anderlecht as a springboard to secure qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League once again.

Anderlecht 1 Arsenal 2

Substitute Lukas Podolski netted a dramatic late winner as Arsenal came from behind with two goals in the final two minutes to beat Anderlecht 2-1.

Germany 1 Republic of Ireland 1

Poland 2 Germany 0

Poland 2 Germany 0

While Ireland has spent most of the week discussing a former football great, the air of expectancy surrounding their modern-day icon Robert Lewandowski is only ratcheting up in Poland.

Manager Arsene Wenger maintains there can be no regrets over former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas moving to Chelsea from Barcelona this summer — though he suspects the deal was done long before.

Arsenal vice-captain Per Mertesacker has warned Chelsea the Gunners are ready to “try new things” when they head to the Barclays Premier League leaders on Sunday boosted by their European success.

Arsenal 1 Southampton 2