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Mesut Özil's transfer to Arsenal from Real Madrid in 2013 broke the club's transfer record at the time by £27.4m. [53] Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's £35m transfer to Liverpool in 2017 was Arsenal's highest fee received for a player transfer. [54] His record would later be matched by Folarin Balogun who joined Monaco for the same fee in 2023. [55]
The goal also saw Lacazette reach the benchmark of 50 Premier League goals, being only the 10th Arsenal player in history to achieve that feat. [97] The Blades, with only two shots on target, never really managed to challenge Bernd Leno, who kept his first clean sheet in ten Premier League games dating back to the end of January.
In their final away game of the season, Arsenal faced 16th-placed Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on 20 May. [401] Arsenal lost 1-0, courtesy of an early goal from Taiwo Awoniyi; the result sealed Forest's place in the top flight, and allowed Manchester City to clinch the Premier League title with three games still to play. [402]
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When Arsenal was founded in 1886 by munition workers' from Woolwich, the club resisted the lure of professionalism and remained an amateur side. [12] Success in local cup competitions soon followed, and a tie against Derby County in the FA Cup on 17 January 1891 led to the opposition approaching two of Arsenal's players, in view of offering them professional contracts. [12]
Saliba broke the deadlock with a header from Rice's corner on 32 minutes. Saka scored his 50th Gunners goal from the penalty spot in the 41st minute. Gabriel Magalhães nodded in a Rice free-kick three minutes later. In first-half stoppage time, Trossard curled home a finish from Ødegaard's pass for the 8,000th league goal in Arsenal's history ...
While Woodcock went on to be Arsenal's top scorer in the league with 14 goals in 34 games, [2] Chapman scored only 4 goals in 23 appearances and was sold to Sunderland for £100,000. [3] Arsenal finished in mid table at 10th after being in the lower reaches of the league for much of the season.
Results showed an improvement following Arteta's third game in charge against Manchester United, which Arsenal had won 2–0, and Arteta had signed defenders Pablo Mari and Cedric Soares on loans with options to buy in the winter transfer window. Arsenal beat Leeds United and Bournemouth to move to the fifth round of the FA Cup, and remained ...