Key events
This might have been fun in a car crash kind of way but the Wayne Rooney Plymouth doc won’t be seeing the light of day.
With Bukayo Saka sidelined, the obvious solution for Arsenal is to get busy in the transfer market. Today’s Rumour Mill points to two potential targets for the Gunners and just what has Darwin Núñez been up to on social media?
Preamble
With Chelsea faltering over Christmas and Manchester City looking too far back and still in semi-crisis, it seems like Arsenal represent the biggest threat to Liverpool in the title race. An impressive 3-1 win at Brentford on New Year’s Day kept the leaders in sight and the Gunners could close the gap to just two points by winning at Brighton on Saturday evening. The snag for Arsenal is that Liverpool will have two games in hand by then and the first of those is at home to ailing Manchester United on Sunday.
Nottingham Forest won’t end the weekend as Liverpool’s nearest challengers in the table as they’re not playing until Monday. But a victory at Wolves could move them second if Arsenal fall to defeat at Brighton.
The top-flight action kicks off with Tottenham v Newcastle at 12.30pm on Saturday, a game surely destined to give the weekend Premier League goal tally a shot in the arm. We’ll have build-up, team news, managers chatting, transfer news and much more as the day goes on. Let’s do this.
One other problem for Arsenal in their pursuit of Liverpool: injury concerns. And that’s not what you want when facing a January schedule peppered with no less than nine fixtures. Here’s Ed Aarons.
