Will there be a flurry of transfer activity on deadline day at Arsenal?

Philippe Senderos has left it late to find a new club and the rumours are that either Portsmouth or Hull City  will make a move for the Swiss international. This is a mighty drop after playing for AC Milan and Arsenal, but with no other takers and Senderos being sixth choice after Gallas, Vermaelen, Djourou, Silvestre and Song, it is best if the Swiss stopper moves to a team that will give him regular football.

One of the main stories doing the rounds is a £30m bid; yes read it again a £30m bid for Roma's central midfielder Daniele di Rossi.

Where did all this speculation come from? Well a couple of days ago an eagle eye blogger www.gunners4life.com spotted that Daniele di Rossi was being shown as an Arsenal player on Wikipedia.

Reports in The Guardian and Daily Mail are saying that Arsenal will finally sign Blaise Matuidi from St Etienne and possibly bring back Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira.

 Matuidi is young at 22, but so what, Vieira was younger when he became a regular at Arsenal and Manchester United will be relying upon Anderson in midfield this season.

We will have a better indication tonight if Arsenal has made a bid or in talks with Fulham over their centre back Brede Hangeland.

Hangeland has been an Arsenal target since December, well a target as far as the newspapers and cyberspace is concerned, yet Arsenal does not appear to have made an approach.

Reports in The Times and both London Lite and The LondonPaper state that Eboue is on his way to Fiorentina.  The Times goes on to say that the player, or rather his agents have agreed a 5 year deal.  Fiorentina have offered £5.6m, whilst Arsenal values the player at £8.6m.

Fiorentina's coach Cesare Prandelli said: Eboue is a very important player.

As the Austrian training camp draws to a close, Arsene and his staff have a better understanding of where the squad needs to be strengthened in particular now the Adebayor has left and Toure is virtually a Man City player too, whilst Eboue and Senderos are also looking at Arsenal exits.

If Arsene sold the remaining four players he would have £55 million to spend, but before people go mad, he will not spend that sort of money.

The press and radio are having another field day with Arsenal, writing about our demise before a ball has been kicked. The rationale behind this theory is we haven't spent any money so we will struggle to qualify for the Europa League, never mind the Champions League.

Well let's look at this matter in detail.

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After Eboue was linked with Fiorentina and the Italians expecting to make a move this week, we anxiously await to hear the fait of Phillipe Senderos. Wenger has stated that the Swiss centre-back has several offer s and the final decision will be made by Senderos.

Are Arsenal about to say goodbye to another of their enfant terribles? Reports in to Il Corriere dello Sport claim that Arsenal have agreed a fee of €9million for Eboue with Fiorentina.

Eboue was rumoured to be part of the deal to sign Felippe Melo but that deal did not materialize, instead Fiorentina have returned to offer Arsenal a cash offer for the Ivorian right-back.

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.

Whilst Arsene Wenger has been quiet in the transfer market with regards the first team, the same cannot be said with the youth recruitment programme.

Arsenal have signed Jamie Edge a centre half from Cheltenham Town. The youngster is 15 years old and will be one of many additions to the youth set up this summer.

Now that we have seen the back of Emmanuel Adebayor, Arsene has £25 million to recruit a replacement, but do we need another striker?

Arsene Wenger has plenty of attacking options at his disposal before he even has to look elsewhere.

Robin van Persie showed us what he was capable of doing last season, when during our dark months of December and January he either created or scored every goal.

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.

The news Arsenal fans have been waiting to hear all summer... Adebayor is on his way to Manchester City.

 Manchester City have reportedly agreed a fee in the region of £20million for the want-away striker with Arsenal and the Togo striker and his agent are in Manchester to agree a contract.

If there was ever a put down, then Bordeaux President Jean-Louis Triaud takes the top prize.Â

On hearing that Sunderland were interested in Marouane Chamakh, he merely stated, "I don't want to insult Sunderland, but I don't even know where they finished last season.

"You have heard him say he will only sign for a big English club.

There is plenty of mis-truths being thrown around over Melo. The Italian press are stating that Juventus are in talks to buy the Brazilian midfielder and thus thwarting Arsenal's attempts at luring Melo to the Emirates.

But once again in step Fiorentina, and they dismiss all these rumours and skulduggery.

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 confusion over the potential transfer of Felipe Melo has been somewhat clarified by Fiorentina with an official statement. The Italian club has stated that Melo has not signed for Juventus.

The club has made it clear that there is only club that has made an offer for Melo, who recently signed a new contract that included a release clause of £21million.

Adebayor holds the key as to whether we see two or more players move to Arsenal this summer.  Unlike last season when Wenger was determined that Adebayor will not leave, this season he is "easy" with the situation. In fact I have never known Wenger "tout" a player as he has done with Adebayor this season.

Will Arsene really sign a defensive midfielder this summer? The likelihood is no, unless that player is 29 years old, why? Arsene has stated he has embarked upon a project at Arsenal and that project is to play attractive football with young players.

What signal will go out to his current players and those below if Arsene signs a 25 year old.

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.

So the news from Italy is that Felipe Melo has a signed a new contract at Fiorentina. What does this mean? There has been so much traffic over a proposed transfer to Arsenal that it cannot all be dismissed as ideal cyber-space talk. Something must have been going on in the background and something might still be happening.

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.

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.

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.

Arsene Wenger has made his first real statement on the forthcoming season and possible transfer targets. It was all good news for Arsenal fans.

Arsene stated that he has identified one or two players to come in, in addition to Thomas Vermaelen. Arsene would like these players to come in before pre-season training starts on 6 July.

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.

Another day in the transfer market, so it must be a new target for Arsenal. Today the Daily Mail has Arsenal preparing a bid (I love the thought of Wenger, Gazidis and Friar sitting over a PC and typing out a bid) for Fiorentina's Felipe Melo.

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The price is £15million (it appears that this is the going rate for players) despite the fact that Fiorentina have a bid of £15 million plus a player on the table, Arsenal are supposedly offering less!

If it's Tuesday it means it is Bundesliga day for Arsenal. Yes every day we are linked with players from different leagues around Europe, this keeps us all occuppied and avoids the monotony of being linked with Sakho, Toure and Matuidi every day!

Having been linked with Edin Dezeko of Wolfsburg, and the linking was done be his agent to flush out AC Milan, today we are being linked with VfB Stuttgart midfielder and former Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger.

Eboue has come out in the press and said he is not sure of his future at Arsenal. He has stated he wants to play or he will leave. He has even given us a list of teams that are interested in him.

He told France-Football, "Leaving would be hard, but I think experiencing another season like this one would be even harder, spending more time away from the pitch.

Every fan looks anxiously at the transfer window and starts to wonder who we will sign, when will we sign anyone and who is leaving the club. For Arsenal fans this is more relevant this summer. We know from the rumblings around the dressing room, the stands and even in the board-room, that a failure to win something this season will see top players leave next summer and Arsene's future will definitely be brought into question.

Various websites are reporting that whilst Wenger fiddles, his transfer targets could be escaping his clutches or are they really his targets?

It is being reported that Sakho is there for the taking if only we increased our offer and Bayern Munich are lurking in the background ready to pounce.

Last summer I wrote that the writing was on the wall for Phillipe Senderos. Â Newcastle were one of the clubs interested in taking the Swiss international away from his Arsenal nightmare.

Wenger let Senderos go to AC Milan on loan a deal that cost the Italian club £1.5 million, the deal was constructed with a view to AC Milan signing the player on a permanent deal this summer for £6.

According to Mamadou Sakho's agent, Arsenal are in prime position to complete signing of the Paris St Germain defender.

Arsenal have been on Sakho's trail for some time, in line with half-a-dozen other La Ligue based players. Â Sakho is young, but it appears that Wenger believes the 19 year-old is able to make the grade in the Premier League at such a tender age.

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. Â 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.