Arsene Wenger is in the market for a new centre-half and fears missing out to Manchester City on a deal for West Brom’s Jonny Evans. If that proves to be the case, Wenger plans a move for Evans’ former United team-mate Smalling once the swap deal involving Alexis Sanchez and Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been completed. Dortmund ready to delay Aubameyang move Dortmund are prepared to walk away from a deal that would send Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Arsenal if Olivier Giroud isn’t part of the exchange, according to the Mirror....

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Last month, the 68-year-old announced that he will be leaving the Emirates Stadium outfit after 22 years in charge. The former Monaco boss joined the Gunners in 1996 and helped the club to three Premier League, seven FA Cup and Community Shield titles. Iwobi broke into the first team in 2015 under the guidance of the French tactician and has become a key figure for the club. This season, he has made 23 league appearances, scoring twice....

The Mail published an online article on Wednesday covering the Gunners’ open training session ahead of the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Atletico Madrid. The report suggested Bellerin and Lacazette “squared up to each other” having clashed when contesting a high ball and featured pictures of their apparent confrontation. However, the Spain right-back tweeted to dismiss the notion of a rift between himself and the former Lyon striker and had little doubt over the newspaper’s motive....

The Gunners’ frustration was deepened by local rivals Tottenham Hotspur edging them out in the UEFA Champions League qualification race in May. Arteta has made it his goal to build a squad ready to make an impact in the Europa League and maintain another push against the top-flight’s big hitters. Marquinhos and Fabio Vieira have already arrived to add creativity to midfield, with United States international Matt Turner joining as a back-up goalkeeper, but Arteta is expected to bring in more new faces before the season starts....

READ MORE: Aguero outshines Messi as Man City clicks Spanish newspaper El Periodico reports that Sanchez, 27, faces criminal proceedings after failing to pay taxes for his image rights throughout 2012 and 2013, when he played for Barcelona. Sanchez is alleged to have transferred his image rights to a company named Numidia Trading, of which he owned 99 percent, though he failed to declare his ownership. El Periodico claims that Sanchez originally transferred his image rights to a Chile-based company named Inversiones Alsan, of which he also holds a 99 percent stake....

The Draxler bullet: Why Arsenal swerved PSG’s new man The Gunners were trailing Bournemouth 2-0 before Coquelin sustained a suspected hamstring problem and had to be replaced by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain just before the half hour mark. And manager Arsene Wenger will now be praying Coquelin, 25, has avoided a long-term injury with Arsenal short of options in the middle of the park. Mohamed Elneny is currently away at the Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt, while Santi Cazorla remains on the sidelines....

Arsenal confirmed that the midfielder had suffered a “slight ankle knock” and will not take part in Thursday’s Premier League clash. Granit Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey are therefore tasked with anchoring the middle of the park, with a trio made up of Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Danny Welbeck supporting Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang up front. The Gunners are otherwise near full strength, with Laurent Koscielny and Shkodran Mustafi aiming to stop one of the league’s most potent attacks in the middle of defence at the Emirates....

All three players scored, while Sanchez and Ozil bagged an assist each, and for once the Gunners looked like a side capable of tearing any team apart on their day. Arsenal 10/11 to beat Swansea to nil Arsene Wenger’s side face an out-of-form Swansea team who have lost three of their last four Premier League matches but have an impressive recent record at Emirates Stadium. ARSENAL INJURIES Danny Welbeck, Shkodran Mustafi, Calum Chambers and David Ospina are out until after the upcoming international break but Santi Cazorla is unlikely to be involved in first-team matters until the turn of next year....

Arsenal will be without striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for a second straight match after the club stripped the 32-year-old of the captaincy and suspended him for this match as a disciplinary measure. Instead, Alexandre Lacazette will assume captaincy duties with Granit Xhaka as vice-captain for the forseeable future. After an eight-match undefeated run, Arsenal has had mixed results of late with three wins and three losses in its last six. With two of those defeats coming against the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United, the Gunners will want to show they can compete with the elite teams in the league....

Chilean star Sanchez, 28, has been courted by City all summer and wants to link up with his former manager Pep Guardiola who sees him as the final piece in the puzzle to mount a title challenge this season. Arsenal 7/1 to win Europa League Alexis has rejected the offer of a new deal at the Emirates Stadium with his current contract set to expire in the summer of 2018, and City have been confident for several months that the player’s stance will lead to Arsenal eventually giving into his demands....

There’s a while to wait until the Gunners play their 15th game though, and that of course is due to the mid-season break for this winter’s 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The month-long tournament has split a usually busy festive fixture schedule in two, squeezing the remaining 24 fixtures of the Premier League season, as well as the rest of the domestic and international cup competitions, between late December and late May....

For Wood, 65, it means coming out of retirement; he stepped down in 2004 after 24 years as head of the Art Institute of Chicago. A respected museum director, he’s expected to restore stability to the Getty Trust. Despite the continuing ferment, Wood believes that Getty officials have already made most of the fixes necessary to get beyond the scandals. Speaking from his home in Rhode Island by telephone with NEWSWEEK’s Andrew Murr, Wood stressed the importance of negotiating a settlement with Italy, following new stricter acquisition guidelines while still buying “aggressively” to expand the young museum’s collections....

MSCHF, an art collective behind viral products including Lil Nas X’s “Satan Shoes” and the sword that Grimes carried at the 2021 Met Gala, is back with an “eat the rich” campaign where people can order a popsicle with a billionaire’s face on it. The popsicle’s names include “Snack on Jack,” “Bite Bezos,” “Gobble Gates,” “Suck Zuck” and “Munch Musk,” according to Input, and are available out of MSCHF’s own ice cream trucks that will be available in New York City and Los Angeles on July 11,12, and 13....

Ever since Marcel Duchamp displayed his dadaist “Fountain” in 1917, detractors have dismissed conceptual artworks as the sum of their parts, and sometimes used that logic as an excuse to form opinions without taking the trouble to see the actual pieces. In its current display, the shark—which will be at the Met for three years, its first extended stay in the United States—argues the importance of firsthand experience, not just of art, but of life....

Wilde tweeted that he’d received the notice from Soundcloud on Wednesday, reporting that the song, which is also known as “WWG1WGA,” was removed for “purposely sharing information that is fabricated or misleading,” violating the service’s Terms of Use. According to a CBS News explanation of the QAnon conspiracy theory, “Where we go one, we go all” is a rally cry often used by people who believe in the conspiracy theory, and the “WWG1WGA” abbreviation is also often used....

“In a newspaper office no day is typical, but I will describe one day no more incoherent than a hundred others. When I came in one morning at 9 I was assigned to find and interview an Italian bricklayer who resembled the Prince of Wales; someone telephoned that he had been offered a job in Hollywood. I tracked him to the cellar of a matzoth bakery on the East Side, where he was repairing an oven....

For a while now I have lusted after digital cable-the Mighty DC-without really understanding much about it. I didn’t have a clue how it worked, for example, or what it cost. In case you don’t either, here are a few answers: digital cable can be smooshed into a tinier stream than an analog signal (which is what most of us have), meaning the Mighty DC can fit many more channels onto the same-size line....

Perhaps that’s why Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who’s running for re-election in a highly visible primary with national implications, so easily gets under the skin of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans. Good trouble is what she’s all about. Republicans would love to see Omar lose her seat. Her effectiveness is not only a direct rebuke to those who reject progressive policies, but also a strong visual of a Black Muslim American woman in power....

The U.S is currently averaging around 161,327 new COVID cases per day, with the Delta variant believed to be responsible for as many as 99 percent of infections, according to The New York Times COVID data tracker. In addition, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said last week that the U.S government is “keeping a close eye” on the Mu variant, which has the potential to be resistant to vaccines....