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Many stories doing the rounds indicate that Arsenal have wrapped up the signature of Sporting
Lisbon midfielder Miguel Veloso for £15M. Veloso has been on many clubs radar including
Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton and AC Milan. Veloso is 22 years old and is a dynamic central
midfielder who can replicate the energy and creativity that has [.
The transfer deadline has now passed, but there is still no news from Arsenal as to who they have
signed, if anybody. Lots of speculation but at this moment, Wenger does not appear to have
added to the squad. Today has been overshadowed by Manchester City, their new ownership and their
£34M transfer of Robinho, who [.
Arsene Wenger has gone one record as saying he will augment the current squad today or
tomorrow. Expect tomorrow to be a hectic day with rumours and counter rumours. There
are two positions that Arsene will be looking at, central midfield and another wide midfielder. One
position that we need to re-enforce is the wide positions.
The transfer window closed at midnight last night and our inactivity in the market has been
overshadowed by the £65M transfers completed in Manchester last night. But the market is
not completely closed, though the options are few and far between. Wenger can still sign a couple
of players, that is players who are free agents.
UD Salamanca, a good source for Arsenal trasnfer moves in the South American market, announced in
the summer that they were expecting two Brazilians to join them on loan from Arsenal. The
first was Pedro, who was on loan with them last season, but the second did not materialise. Reports
coming out of Spain are claim [.
Four days after the transfer window closed, the spotlight is on Stephen Appiah. The Ghanaian
captain is a free agent and thus able to join any club at any time. Appiah has been linked
with Arsenal in the past, but a bad injury put paid to previous moves. Wenger has been a long time
admirer of [.
The answer was in front of them all the time
Having rumoured to have signed one Brazilian for the January transfer window, and with another on
loan in Spain, it is now believed that Arsenal have signed 14 year old Luis Gustavo Conte. Conte is
only 14 but according to L'Equipe a deal is already in the pipeline with the Mirassol youth
teamer expected in London [.
Whilst the players have been going through their paces in Austria, Arsene Wegner has been going
through his book of possible midfielders to bring to the club. Having seen the paucity of
players available to him, the Arsenal manager must be regretting allowing Lassana Diarra to leave
in January. Wenger would like to bring someone in [.
Another transfer window shuts and once again the exit door at the Emirates was busier than the
entrance door. Not for the first time have Arsenal fans anxiously awaited the window to open,
speculated as to what players will join us, only to be disappointed with the final outcome.
It has become an annual ritual at [.
The January transfer window cannot come quickly enough fro Arsene, Arsenal and its
fans. That we are still in with a sniff of the title is a minor miracle, but come January
that miracle needs to end and we need to bring in players. Many have been mentioned, in
defence Matthew Upson, Phillipe Mexes and van Buyten.
Two youngsters who were on Arsenal's early season radar and seemed to fade away are now both
reported to be available again. The first is 19-year-old Brazilian Diogo Luis Santos who
plays for Portuguesa. A slight complication, in the 70% of the player is owned by the club and 30%
by others. Arsenal have made enquiries [.
The transfer window is closed and bolted, but the intrigue never stops with Arsenal. First we had
the Appiah saga, that has gone very quiet with Portsmouth looking favourites to add to their
collection of African players, wait for the moans from Redknapp in 2010 when the next African Cup
of Nations takes place.
The countdown to the transfer window opening is on and so are the rumours. Too many reports
are stating that Arsenal have agreed a £5M fee to sell young Danish striker Bendtner to
Spartak Moscow. Whilst the young Dane has not lived up to expectations; I would be surprised
if Wenger allowed Bendtner to leave unless [.
As revealed late on Tuesday night, Arsenal have completed the surprise signing of Mikael Silvestre
from Manchester United. The France defender becomes Arsenal's fourth summer signing and
will add experience and versatility to the squad. The greatest surprise was that Ferguson
allowed him to move to one of United's rivals.
One player of experience will definitely join Arsenal, according to Arsene Wenger. In an interview
after Saturday's game at Barnet, Wenger was asked about impending signings, his reply was, 'I
cannot give you any names, but we are still thinking of bringing in one player, yes. We've lost
good players, but we have bought two [.
Newspapers have little to do these days, ,neither to websites, so the best way of filling the pages
up is by creating stories and then joining these stories up to create more stories. The end
result, a load of rubbish. Juventus announced 10 days ago, having bought Poulsen from Sevilla that
they are not in the [.
Every club has a whipping boy and in the case of Arsenal it is Philippe Senderos. Whilst the Swiss
international can perform admirably over a period of games, the fans know he is one mistake from
becoming a permanent liability. He has constantly struggled against big centre forwards, and at the
end of last season [.
Young Arsenal striker Nacer Barazite has agreed to join Derby County on a one month loan
deal. If things go well the spell could be extended to a season long
spell. Barazite did not travel to Austria with the first team squad, which was an
indication that Arsene believed that his immediate future lay away from [.
There are many reports stating that Arsenal have made a £5M bid for Udinese and Swiss
player Gokhan Inler. Inler, if Turkish background has represented Switzerland. The
Swiss midfielder has a £5M buy-out clause and it is believed that both Arsenal and Newcastle
have made a bid for the player.
Champions League Arsenal's second leg against FC Twente will be shown live on BBC3. The BBC
paid £200,000 for the rights to the game beating both Setanta and ITV in a bidding war for the
rights to show the game. Transfer Rumour Mill Arsenal are reported to be monitoring the
Ipswich Town winger Danny Haynes.
What was obvious to all the fans, has now become a reality with Wenger, we need at least another
player in midfield. Wenger has confirmed that he will sign someone before the return leg with FC
Twente, but not before the start of the season. Whilst Ramsey has done well so far, he is
still only [..
Middlesbrough have announced that they have agreed a fee with Arsenal for Justin Hoyte, believed to
be £3M. Hoyte spent the 2005-06 season in the north east with Sunderland, he had a good
season the following season, but failed to make an impact last season. With the arrival of
Bacary Sagna, Hoyte became third choice [.
Arsene Wenger has stated that he will sign a player of experience before the FC Twente game,
with most players on international duty this week, can we expect the signing to be completed before
the Fulham game? Wenger does not normally talk about players, but when asked about Alonso he said
he was a player who [.
With less than six hours to go to transfer deadline all is quiet at the Emirates and London
Colney. Is this a sign of inactivity or are their deals being made behind close doors.
Evidence of the last two seasons will suggest that players are being lined up, medicals undetaken
and contracts signed.
Arsenal and UD Salamanca have both announced that Arsenal's Norwegian centre-half Harvard Nordveit
has joined the Spanish outfit on a season long loan. Harvard joined last summer
from FK Haugesund for £2M, and was soon and made reserve team captain. Nordveit had an
injury ravaged season last year.
Having had time to reflect on our abject performance of yesterday, has anything
changed. Was I overtly critical, did emotions get the better of me? On reflection, the
answer is no. Our problems start and end with the midfield. People expect
Fabregas to appear and everything will be fine, well it doesn't work like that.
Arsenal director, Danny Fiszman, got sick and tired of the rubbish coming out that Arsenal are
broke. He stated that if Arsene came to him with a request for £30 million, there will be
no problem, the only problem is Arsene will never do it. So the board claim we have money, but
Arsene believes it is [.
