The 61 players Arsenal are tipped to sign and the 18 men leaving

There is an article on FFC that has the headline, “Arsenal can help Gyokeres hit Haaland levels by signing £78m “superstar”.   I meantion this as this is a story the webiste has previously covered as a transfer rumour, and it marks an interesting development – sites not just “reporting” a rumour, but using the approach to promote a possible transfer.  But we now also have sites that are telling us Arsenal are going to buy someone – but they can’t tell us who – which seems a bit of a non-story.  I’m just mentioning one of them – but there have been many.

Still, we have crawled up to 61 players listed, although this is only a fraction of what we have had by this stage in previous seasons.   Maybe it is just the early bout of buying by Arsenal that has put the inventors of these stories off, or maybe they have got a bit fed up with it being pointed out that only 3% of their tales actually turn out to be true in each window.

Either way it is a pretty poor show by the creators of fantasy transfer rumours.   I wonder what they have been doing instead..  We do however, have the story from Givemesport which says that Arsenal are going to sign someone but they are not going to tell us who.

And the players reported to be leaving…. (some may have changed their minds!)