Well as always this summer Arsenal have been linked with many players throughout the world, but today I have set out to create a post about the realistic players who could come to Arsenal and the likely hood we will sign them.

Starting from defence and working up the field you can see the players below, (Please note the word realistic because we have been linked with many players around the field and I'm only showing as the word suggest real transfer prospects.

Well as you expect within the middle of the summer transfer season Arsenal, as always have been linked with many players from around the world and also within England.

From the transfer rumours displayed so far this is who I would like to find lined up for the first game next season in the premier league:

Goalkeeper

Manuel Almunia:

Why?

CESC FABREGAS has pleaded with boss Arsene Wenger to sign a midfield hardman.

Arsenal skipper Fabregas misses tough-tackling Mathieu Flamini who quit the Gunners last summer for AC Milan and has not been replaced.

Transfer rumour mill is heating up with many players being linked to Arsenal, but our old favourite appears to be top of the list. Yaya Toure is being tipped as wanting to come to Arsenal and team up with his brother. Wenger is a fan of Yaya, we had home on trial several years ago, but due to work permit problems, we were unable to sign him.

It has been reported in various newspapers today and web columns (especially on the Daily Mail) that Arsene Wenger will finally make his interest in Brazilian star Felipe Melo de Carvalho, currently of Fiorentina in the form of a bid.

Arsene Wenger has tracked the star for about 3 years now and lost out last season to Fiorentina who signed the Brazil international for £10 million euros from Almeria the Spanish side.

Could this week be the most exciting week in Arsenal's transfer history?

With the Confederation's Cup over and Brazil crowned champions, it is time to see if Arsenal's pursuit of Felippe Melo is indeed a true pursuit or merely more newspaper talk. Arsenal are reported to have offered Phillipe Senderos as part of the deal, but Wenger will not accept Fiorentina's valuation of £21 million for the Brazilian international.

Arsene will be focusing on rebuilding his central defence this summer. This rebuilding has started with the acquisition of Thomas Vermaelen, but it will not and cannot end here.

Of the central defenders on our books from last season, four of them have contract that expire next summer.

The silence has been deafening from the Emirates. The silence that is, to deny that Adebayor is not leaving the club.

In the past and we can look at Vieira, every season he was with us, Henry for the last three season, Cesc last two seasons and even Adebayor last season, Wenger was very vocal in telling everyone that these players were going nowhere.

Arsene Wenger agreed a £10million deal for Ajax centre-back Thomas Vermaelen yesterday but is still unsure about who will partner him at the heart of Arsenal's defence next season.

Though his agent Soren Lerby was still negotiating personal terms last night, Vermaelen seems certain to sign a four-year contract at The Emirates after convincing the Arsenal manager he has the credentials to shore up a defence that was repeatedly found wanting last season.

Arsenal have been named the third most valuable sports club in the world by American business magazine, Forbes. They list us as being worth £837 million, while Manchester United and Real Madrid lead the valuation table respectively. Real Madrid are also the second most valuable football club at an astonishing $1.

Sky Sports have been reporting that not only that Arsenal are interested in signing St. Etienne's midfielder Blaise Matuidi, but that the player is in England at the moment. They go on to day that the play is in England with his agent and has been shown around Arsenal, and I do not think they meant a stadium tour!

Arsenal should be after a midfielder.

Gareth Barry was priced out of everyone's price bracket when Manchester City offered him £130,000 a week. This is double what Arsenal would have even thought of offering the England international.

Yaya Toure is the old chestnut that never goes away; look out for the Steven Appiah stories to emerge soon!

When the FA assess Emmanuel Adebayor's shocking challenges tomorrow, surely the above image is the best evidence to get him banned for 3 games?! The Togolese frontman stamped on Robin van Persie's face during Arsenal's 4-2 defeat against Manchester City yesterday. As expected, Adebayor caused all the controversy with his goal celebration and over-aggressive tackling Cesc [.

The summer madness has started and it is only a matter of time before we are embroiled in trying to keep our best players.

Real Madrid are about to embark on €200 million transfer frenzy and the likes of Manchester City, Barcelona and Chelsea will not be far behind. Manchester United and Liverpool will splash out the customary £50 million on players.

Following last week's declaration by respected French journalist Philippe Auclair that Arsenal are close to signing Morocco striker Maraoune Chamahk, another well respected journalist Gabriele Marcotti has made revelations about a potential Arsenal signing.

Talking on talkSPORT, Marcotti indicated that Fiorentina's Felipe Melo will sing for Arsenal once the Confederations Cup is over.

I am sorry but this is the best article i have seen for ages. Tony Atwwod from Untold Arsenal (one of the best Arsenal blogs around, okay maybe he is THE best) wrote this, and i love him for it!

Most newspapers have editorial conferences where the leading planners in the paper sit around a big table and argue about the main stories and features of the next edition.

I watched the infamous Arsene Wenger meets the shareholders Question and Answer session on Arsenal TV the other day. I was sitting waiting for the vitriolic attacks on Silvestre (well deserved, a liability), the criticism of Adebayor, Song and Diaby. I was looking forward to hear what Arsene actually about these players.

Yesterday saw Arsenal take the first step in challenging for the title this season, you want to know why? We have games against Fulham, Blackburn, Birmingham, Tottenham, West Ham, Wolves and Sunderland before our next top four clash, if we get 15 points out of those games we will be around the top of the table, [.

The cause of Andrey Arshavin's recent sickness has been revealed by a Russian newspaper today. Arsenal's 28-year-old became ill before Russia's World Cup Qualifier with Finland last month and was pictured being physically sick in a training session (see picture below). But instead of falling ill due to a virus or weather, it was too [.

With just an hour remaining in this years summer transfer window, a loan move for young Mexican Carlos Vela could be possible, as several reports from London linking him with a transfer deadline loan deal with Fulham Football Club.

Vela has now a difficult ankle injury, which forced him out of action in the first weeks of the new campaign.

The transfer has finally opened and we all wait with baited breath for the arrival of new players to invigorate our squad and bring home trophies. Could Wenger break with tradition and focus his transfer targets on the domestic market?

Wenger has rarely bought English players and those he has have not for one reason or another been successful.

Whilst we are looking forward to players arriving next season, a squad can only have so many players, so inevitably there will be departures.

The possible or rather imminent departure of Adebayor has been well documented, but the Togolese striker will not be alone.

Reports today have Inter Milan wanting van Persie and Mourinho is prepared to spend £25 million for the Dutch striker.

There are not many season openers that are more difficult than Everton away. Last season Goodison Park was something of a fortress for Everton last season and few teams went there and were given an easy game. David Moyes has brought Everton a long way during his reign and the fans really understand that they are being given good football despite restricted finance.

The club currently has five international strikers plus two more forwards who will be more comfortable playing as a striker. Is it time we re-assessed our strike force and attacking midfielders and played players in their rightful positions?

Carlos Vela will develop into a good striker, whether he becomes a scoring sensation in the Premier League is questionable.

Real Madrid are going on a massive spending spree, first Kaka, now Ronaldo and there will be one more "galactico" before Perez starts to look at squad players. Real have borrowed money from the banks (I do not hear any cries of foul play from Platini over the debt at Real Madrid), but his is not a bottomless pit and sooner or later they will have to listen to offers for their players.

We know that Arsene Wenger is monitoring Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh, the boss told everyone that. We also know that Chamakh would love to come to the Emirates. We have a vacancy now as Adebayor has left and with the terrible news that Nasri will be out until October; this means that both Arshavin and Walcott will spend more time on the wings.

Arsenal have announced a friendly on 29 July against Hannover 96. The game will take place in Hannover's AWD Arena. Hannover are a mid table Bundesliga team.

Arsenal will get back to pre-season training on 6 July with our traditional curtain raiser against Barnet on 18 July. Arsenal have not yet announced any other friendlies, but traditionally we go to Austria and have two games against minor opposition, before stepping up the process.

William Gallas joined us as part of the Ashley Cole transfer. Nobody knows whether Gallas really want to join Arsenal or if he wanted to move abroad. Gallas seemed a reluctant Gooner in his first season, always complaining about the team's attitude, their lack of desire to win. It was a surprise then that Arsene appointed Gallas as captain on Henry's departure.

The focus today is Francophone players.

France Football's Phillipe Auclair stated that Arsenal are close to signing Chamakh from Bordeaux. Auclair is a respected journalist and knows quite a bit about Arsene's France based dealings. If Phillipe Auclair claims Arsenal are close to signing Marouane Chamakh, then that is more credible than a lot of the UK newspaper back pages.

Felipe Melo definitely won't be coming to Arsenal this summer, but his fellow Brazilian Naldo certainly could be. Werder Bremen's central defender has been tipped to join the Gunners' by coach Thomas Schaaf who's quoted a potential transfer fee at just under £8million. "Naldo is a great athlete and could do well at the right [.

Bordeaux forward Marouane Chamakh isn't expecting to move to Arsenal during the current transfer window and expects that to be the case until the end of the season. Full Story To Come. "I am not aware of anything. It would really surprise me if Arsenal made a new offer [before the transfer window closes].

If there was one element of our new 4-3-3 formation that nobody had predicted at the start of the season it was the use of Robin Van Persie as the central striker and Nicholas Bendtner as a right sided forward. I'm sure that for many gooners, like myself, this was unfathomable; it just literally never crossed my mind that Wenger might play like this.

Danish hitman Nicklas Bendtner gave his controversial opinion on women ahead of the Danes World Cup Qualifier with Sweden later this evening. The 21-year-old, who is rather popular with the female Gooner population, admitted that English girls don't even come close to that of Scandinavian beauties!

Reports in the UK media are saying that mega bucks Manchester City are preparing a £15 million bid for Toure.

Toure was subject of a bid from Manchester City in January; in fact the Ivory Coast defender handed in a written transfer request, but was persuaded by Wenger to withdraw it.

Internet site Sport.co.uk, the site that first reported the imminent signature of Thomas Vermaelen, though in fairness they do print so much garbage they are making Tribal football look respectable, are stating that Brazilian centre back Naldo is on his way from Werder Bremen to Arsenal.

They quote Werder Bremen coach who said, "Naldo is a great athlete and could do well at the right club, unfortunately he doesn't fit the direction we're planning to move in any longer.

Several website are reporting that Arsenal's pursuit of Marouane Chamakh to replace Adebayor has run into trouble. The stumbling block and this does not make sense is that Bordeaux want Silvestre as part of the deal.

What is strange is that it was widely reported that the Moroccan striker had a £7million buyout clause.

Carlos Vela News can proudly annnouce, that we had an audio interview with the new Arsenal Online Magazine "Third Gen Portal". The Magazine is presented by James Maasdorp on Third-Gen, a incredible Website about the Arsenal Football Club with a lot of informative stuff.

The Australian based Journalist and Arsenal Supporter has worked long time on his new project and could finally present it on 31th July!

by CARL ELDRIDGE Take a look at how Arsenal plan to brighten up the Emirates with the help of Gunners legends through the years.

This is a sneak peek at the planned art believed to have been commisioned to decorate the stadium. My first reaction is that it reflects the majesty of Arsenal superbly and the typeface for the club's motto is very strong.

Standard Liege's Arsenal-supporting midfielder Axel Witsel has been banned for 11 GAMES after committing a horrendous foul on Anderlecht stopper Marcin Wasilewski . Belgian international Witsel was sent off on Sunday with just 24 minutes into the game while Wasilewski has been ruled out for 12 months.

Arsenal's television channels are a bit of a Jekyll and Hide. We have Arsenal TV (ATV) and Arsenal TV Online (ATVO).   ATV is available as part of the Setanta Sports package, with as I understand it none of the subscription fees going to Arsenal, unlike MUTV and Chelsea TV. Arsenal's income is via adverts; these [.