I think Cesc Fabregas' time at Arsenal is nearing it's end. He has been a great servant since joining the club at age 16, but it may now be time to collect the fat check from Barcelona, allow Cesc to go where he wants, and use the money to move forward and improve the team as a whole. Sources say that Arsenal are looking for a fee of 35-40 million pounds for the captain, and if Barcelona, or any other club, meet that asking price, does anyone NOT think it would be in our best interest to take that kind of cash?

Manchester United and Liverpool have already made a big start to their summer spending with the signings of Phil Jones £20 million Ashley Young £15M and Liverpool buying Jordan Henderson £20M. This came on the day that we bought our first signing- no not a big name player but a 19 year old from Charlton for £1 million.

Name: Thiago Alcantara
Age: 20
Height: 5′7″
Position: Midfielder
Current team: FC Barcelona

Rumor has it that Owen Coyle has eyes for young Spain and Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara and would like nothing more than to bring him to the Reebok for his first taste of the English Premier League.

After an extended period of speculation, it appears that Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is finally closing in on three of the club's main targets this summer.

Spanish winger Juan Manuel Mata, Belgian midfielder Eden Hazard, and Blackburn defender Christopher Samba are all expected to be locked in negotiations over their proposed moves to the Emirates in the coming days.

1. Are Dortmund even better this season?

After a sublime performance against HSV on Friday night, the question has to be asked. Dortmund's quick passing and interchange left HSV bewildered. The return of Kagawa has given fresh verve to Dortmund's attack.

Sebastian Coates to Join Liverpool

Club Nacional defender Sebastian Coates has opted to join Liverpool despite interest from several other clubs including the Reds' Premier League rivals Manchester City. Luis Suarez telephoned his compatriot to sell him a move to Anfield after a bid of around £7m was made earlier this week, meeting Nacional's asking price.

Gabriel Heinze had been a fans' favourite at Old Trafford, with the crowd loving him for his strong tackling and tough nature. "Argentina!" we would chant when he got stuck in to a really meaty challenge. After Patrice Evra became Manchester United's first choice left-back, Gabriel Heinze wasn't prepared to work for his place in the team, and he was off.

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish is ready to win the race for Ipswich hot-shot Connor Wickham – and beat old pal Harry Redknapp to his signature.
Wickham has just signed a new deal at Portman Road, but that will not stop a transfer going through if Liverpool come up with the asking price of around £10million.

Chivas USA's search for someone who can score and create goals has unearthed a real prospect, and now the Goats are figuring out whether they can afford him -- and whether he fits into the master plan.
Teen attacker Jason Banton, on trial the past week from Liverpool FC's youth academy, put on a show Sunday as Chivas' reserves toppled the L.

Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs: where will Scott Parker end up? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Scott Parker's admission that he wants to leave West Ham for the Premier League will have piqued the interest of many top clubs. The three sides thought to be heading the queue are Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham, so here are the cases for and against the England midfielder joining each of them.

The Daily Mail understands that Ipswich starlet Connor Wickham could be set for a move to Liverpool this summer, but Kenny Dalglish has been told to up his bid from £8 million to £10 million.
On Saturday reports were circulating that Dalglish had put in a £8 million bid to coax Wickham to Liverpool, but the bid was turned down.

The list keeps growing, perhaps with everybody thinking that if they keep adding names one's bound to turn out right sooner or later. And so today we've got a few more highly dubious but widely reported rumours to add to the heaping pile of possible transfer targets, as well as one rumour that just about everybody seems to think is going to come true no matter what over the next few days.

A busy summer for Arsenal is becoming a frantic one.
With Arsene Wenger attempting to plug the holes in his leaky central defence, another situation vacant will soon emerge at left-back.
As revealed by Goal.com last month, Gael Clichy has told the club that he wants to leave Emirates Stadium after rejecting at least two new contract offers in the last few months.

Cesc signs Barcelona have confirmed that Cesc Fabregas has signed a five-year deal at the club. The ex-Arsenal captain has completed his move to his boyhood team. And after months of wrangling over how much the midfielder was worth and haggling down Arsenal's asking price, the European champions have slapped a €200 million release clause [.

Although Nicklas Bendtner was insistent that he would be leaving Arsenal this summer, it seems that he hasn't found the right club willing to pay Arsenal's asking price, and he may have to stay at the Emirates for another season at least. Wenger has admitted a few times that Bendtner has been in talks with [.

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Eddie Johnson's return to Major League Soccer was announced before it was signed, sealed and delivered, and as a result, his return is no longer a certainty or even probable at all.

"We had reached agreement, subject to formal documents," MLS executive vice president Todd Durbin said after it was revealed that the deal to put Johnson in the league's allocation order and assign him to a team was not on the table anymore.

Unsurprisingly, cash-gorged Manchester City have dominated the footballing transfer market in 2010, shunting a combined total of somewhere up around the €350 million mark in fees and transfers into the global market between January 1st and the present day as owner Sheikh Mansour continues to feed his foray into capitalism on a gargantuan scale.

The u-turn that was hinted at yesterday looks to be almost complete as reports claim that Everton have accepted an offer from Spurs for their midfielder Steven Pienaar. Last week, Chelsea tabled a bid of £3m which was accepted by the Toffees and it would now appear that Tottenham, who had initially made an offer that fell short of Chelsea's bid, have matched the asking price.

Juventus are keen on signing Alberto Aquilani on a permanent basis but want Liverpool to significantly reduce their asking price.
La Gazzetta dello Sport claims dialogue has been opened between the two clubs as they attempt to resolve Aquilani's future following his loan move to Italy last summer.

Juventus president Giuseppe Marotta has put forward his club's intentions to purchase Alberto Aquilani after he starred for the Old Lady on the weekend against Genoa in a 3-2 victory.
"Aquilani has been a pleasant surprise for us because he had come from a negative period," Marotta told Sky Sport Italia.

Transfer Window

Transfer window open is as wonderful as it is stressful for every football fan. Never do I check my phone for updates more regularly each day, never do I groan and moan and exalt at the suggestion of transfers, 97% of which will never happen, than now. While my teams (me being the type to have a side in pretty much every country in the world.

Liverpool has taken over from Arsenal as the front runner's to sign Ajax defensive midfielder Vurnon Anita with reports indicating that they are prepared to pay 15 million euro to secure his services.
The 22-year-old, who won a Dutch title last season with the Dutch side, signed a new two-year deal at Ajax recently which reportedly includes the 15 million release clause.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is prepared to let midfielder Alberto Aquilani leave for as little as £8million just two years after Liverpool paid £17m for the Italian international.
Aquilani spent last season on loan at Italian giants Juventus and despite impressing many with his assured performances in the centre of midfield was told that he would not be signed on a permanent deal after the club appointed Antonio Conte as their new manager.

David Ngog's proposed switch to Sunderland is being held up by the striker's wage demands.
Liverpool are happy to sell the Frenchman for a fee of around £4million but the Black Cats have so far been unable to agree personal terms with him.
The Wearside outfit insists they can't match the wages Ngog would earn if he remained at Anfield next season.

Aston Villa winger Stewart Downing is set to hand in a transfer request in an attempt to speed up his protracted move to Liverpool, according to reports in the The Mirror.
Downing has been the subject of keen interest from Liverpool, and the England winger is keen on joining Kenny Dalglish's team - although Aston Villa are reluctant to lose the former Middlesbrough winger after seeing Ashley Young join Manchester United.

Kenny Dalglish returns from his summer break this week ready, willing and able to sanction a £28million spending spree.
Kenny Dalglish's first deal will be for Blackpool star Charlie Adam, 25, who is on the verge of completing an £8m move to Anfield in the next 48 hours.
And then the Liverpool boss will switch his attention to Aston Villa's Stewart Downing, 26, who is desperate to be a Kop hero.

Blackpool may be forced to sell captain Charlie Adam for only half the £12million they wanted in January.
Liverpool is unwilling to pay more than £6m for the 25-year-old, who was the subject of a bidding war between them and Spurs six months ago.
Blackpool's relegation has meant Adams' price has dropped, particularly as he only has a year left on his contract.

Lille is closing in on Saint-Etienne winger Dimitri Payet, despite an interest from Liverpool.
Goal.com UK revealed Reds director Damien Comolli is eager to lure the 24-year-old to Anfield, but he is not keen on matching the French club's asking price, around €12.3 million (£11 m).
Rather, he has valued the player at €6.

Good news everyone, there is finally actual Arsenal news. And by 'actual' I mean, no rumors and lies in the media, but actual comments from Arsene Wenger, and *shock* real football coming right around the corner. Let's get to it.

Arsene came out and calmed all our fears, saying that he is working 'long nights' to bring the right players to Arsenal.

Barca might want you, but Arsenal need and love you, and that is all you need!

Cesc, did you read Sandro Rosell's comment regarding your possible transfer last week: "let things run their course and hope they go in our favour"? How do you feel about Barca's unwillingness to meet Arsenal's apparantly more than reasonable asking price of £40m in one go?

Liverpool are ready to rekindle their interest in Bayer Leverkusens Michael Kadlec having grown frustrated in their pursuit of a new left-back.
The Reds have limited options on the left side of their defence, where England right-back Glen Johnson was often forced to fill in last season as Anfield flop Paul Konchesky was loaned to Nottingham Forest and yester day sold to Leicester City
Reds boss Kenny Dalglish has found it difficult to solve the problem position so far this summer as top transfer target Gael Clichy opted to join Manchester City , while Newcastles £15m asking price for Jose Enrique has proved a stumbling block in agreeing a deal.

Starting off at the top of today's news, Barca officially completed the signing of Alexis Sanchez from Udinese. The fee was about £33 million if you include all the variables, but only about £23 million if you're only counting the up front money. This was quite a bit lower than the figures we were hearing a while back, but it still represents the majority of the £40 million budget that Barca were supposedly constrained to this summer.

According to reports Bolton Wanderers are interested in Liverpool striker David Ngog.
The Daily Mail claims Wanderers boss Owen Coyle is eyeing the French striker.
It is understood that Wanderers contacted Liverpool about the availability of the marksman but at the moment the two clubs disagree over the asking price.

Liverpool's interest in Newcastle United defender Jose Enrique has "cooled" according to sources on Merseyside, despite the Spaniard's attempts to hasten his departure from St James's Park this week.
Enrique trained with his Newcastle United teammates in America yesterday, despite using the social networking site Twitter to criticize owner Mike Ashley for a lack of ambition, accusing the board of selling their best players and lying about making an improved contract offer to keep him.

Liverpool is facing a battle with Serie A club Lazio for the signature of Lyon star Miralem Pjanic.
TalkSPORT have claimed Anfield boss Kenny Dalglish made an approach to Lyon earlier this month regarding the availability of Pjanic but so far little progress has been made.
Dalglish is still thought to be interested in the 21-year-old Bosnia & Herzegovina international but he will now have to move quickly with Lazio now registering their interest.

Surprising words from former Newcastle captain Kevin Nolan in the Sunday Mirror today. Kevin Nolan I felt totally betrayed Kevin left the Tyneside club abruptly in June, when relegated West Ham put in a bid for the player, and when the London club finally met the asking price of £4.5M, Kevin went down south [.

Luka Modric really, really wants to leave Tottenham. Spurs Number 2 Kevin Bond now publicly acknowledges that the unhappy player may leave if a bid matches the club's valuation of the player.
The scenario floating around the newspapers is a straight cash deal for Modric. Modric in exchange for money, giving Spurs cash to pursue other players in the transfer market.

As he prepares to unveil French winger Gabriel Obertan as the newest (and most likely the fastest) member of his Newcastle United squad, Magpies boss Alan Pardew is also working to sign a reliable scorer up front.

Pardew, who has publicly backed unsettled midfielder Joey Barton to stay on at the club, is now reportedly close to acquiring the services of Tottenham's unsettled striker, Roman Pavlyuchenko.

Tutto Mercato Web, through its Juventus site Tutto Juve, is reporting that the Philadelphia Union are meeting with the Italian power's left back Fabio Grosso for a second time.

Grosso, who scored the winning penalty kick for Italy against France in the 2006 World Cup Final, rejected the Union's first offer while Juventus was in Philadelphia as part of their 2011 USA tour.

Liverpool Deny Dann Reports

Liverpool have denied their reported interest in Scott Dann, insisting they are not going up against Arsenal for the player's signature. This news will likely intensify rumours linking the Reds with a move for Bolton's Gary Cahill as they look to sure up a defence that leaked goals in the club's pre-season campaign.