Arsenal news LIVE: Arsene Wenger speaks at press conference ahead of Swansea fixture

Arsenal host Swansea after back-to-back wins
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James Benge26 October 2017

Arsenal return to Premier League action on Saturday following their narrow Carabao Cup win over Championship Norwich.

The Gunners needed extra-time and a sprinkling of stardust from teenager Eddie Nketiah to progress to Round Five of the League Cup, but attention now turns back to the Premier League.

Arsene Wenger's men are already nine points behind leaders Manchester City after three defeats in their opening nine games, but impressed against Everton on Sunday as Alexandre Lacazette, Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil started alongside each other for the first time.

The trio each grabbed a goal as Aaron Ramsey and Nacho Monreal also found the target in a convincing 5-2 win over the Toffees at Goodison Park. And Wenger's men will hope to build on their winning momentum as Paul Clement's Swansea visit.

Standard Sport's James Benge is at Emirates Stadium to bring you live updates as Wenger speaks to the media ahead of the game.

Plus, we'll bring you coverage of the club's AGM ahead of the Arsenal manager's press conference below.

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The next question is based on Ivan Gazidis' pay packet, which included a near £1m bonus.

Keswick says the club's remuneration committee evaluates the remuneration of our senior managers across a board range of perspectives. He adds that the view of the committee goes beyond just this season and explains that his pay must be competitive in comparison to other Premier League CEOs.

Ivan is doing a fantastic and first class job leading the development of this club in every aspect... We are fortunate to have him as our CEO."

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Ivan Gazidis addresses the first question, which relates to a £9million increase in 'other football costs', explained in the accounts as due to USA tour costs, partnerships costs, extra security and the legends match.

Gazidis says: Much of it is due to footballing reasons... We are continuing to invest in the structure of our football teams.

The second reason is a good news story. These are cost increases linked to increase revenues. Higher retail revenues lead to higher retail costs.

Higher partnership revenue means increased cost of servicing our partners.

Finally higher tour revenues also came with higher costs relating to the logistics and expense of that tour.

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26 October 2017

Keswick: Some of you have not got seats. Are they no seats for anybody?

There are in fact not enough. If only there were 60,000 outside...

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Sir Chips Keswick gets us underway, declaring the 16th Annual General Meeting of Arsenal open.

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Just five minutes to kick-off and the hall is filling up swiftly as we wait to hear from Wenger, Gazidis and perhaps Kroenke.

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26 October 2017

As we reported at the time Everton, West Ham and Marseille were keen to bring in Alexandre Lacazette's back-up but it seems remarkable how much importance Koeman put in getting Giroud.

That was hard to swallow, you tell me where you can get a better striker.

"Lukaku was important to us, not only because of his goals, but because of his way of playing - strong, quick, direct.

26 October 2017

Hello from the Emirates, where we are 30 minutes away from what is increasingly one of the highlights of the Arsenal calendar. Whether that's a good thing I'll leave to you to judge.

Will Kroenke address the fans? Will shareholders get the answers they want to their questions? We'll find out soon.

26 October 2017

Good morning and welcome to Standard Sport's live coverage of Arsenal's Annual General Meeting. Coverage begins at 11pm from the Emirates.

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