Arsenal to AC Milan: could CEO Ivan Gazidis leave for Italy?

The 53-year-old is now in Singapore on the club’s pre-season tour, working closely with new manager Unai Emery.

The Gunners play Emery’s former club Paris St-Germain in the same stadium on Saturday afternoon, while Atleti face the French side two days later.

The match ended 1-1 after 90 minutes and had to be settled by a shoot-out, won 3-1 by the Spanish LaLiga side with reserve goalkeeper Antonio Adan scoring the decisive penalty for Atletico.

Nevertheless, the focus was on the young English midfielder who has represented his country at U-16, U-17 and U-18 level.

Playing a similar system to that employed primarily by Arsene Wenger last season, Arsenal started with Aaron Ramsey and new signing Matteo Guendouzi protecting the defence as Lacazette spearheaded a front four featuring young attackers Reiss Nelson and Smith Rowe.

Aaron Ramsey has been asked about his Arsenal future and admitted that he doesn’t exactly know what will happen next (via Sky Sports).

The German, starting ahead of Petr Cech in goal, otherwise had little to do as Arsenal, employing Emery’s trademark high press, kept Atletico in their own half.

“Historically, Arsenal have worked with young players to give them the chance to work with the first team, for them to show their quality in each match”.

“Today I am very happy with his work on the pitch, but not only today”.

Iwobi was absent when Arsenal trashed Boreham Wood 8-0 in Unai Emery’s first game as Gunners manager on July 14.

“When I arrived here, the first meeting was with Ivan”.

“It’s always hard when a new manager comes in, for him to get his ideas across to the team and for it to just click straight away, but hopefully that will be the case”.

“Listen, I’m a player who always gives 100 per cent regardless of what’s going on”.

“No one can ask more of this team than us and it is an important achievement to get players like Griezmann and Oblak to commit their futures to the club”, he said.