by Sir Hardly Anyone
Here is the list of all the Incoming Players for the summer of 2018. Yes we are almost halfway to our target of 110 transfers and the transfer window hasn’t even creaked open yet. Amazing!
Here’s the list
| No. | Player | From | Source | Information |
| 1 | Yacine Adli | PSG | Sport Review. Talk Sport says the deal is certainly on for a mere £250,000. Mirror says it is for sure. | Barcelona Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Juventus want him. He’s a wonderkid. |
| 2 | Marco Asensio | Real Madrid | Guardian | Liverpool will pay up to £131m, Chelsea also keen. |
| 3 | Álvaro Odriozola Arzallus | Real Sociedad | Football London | Mainly right back can also play on the wing |
| 4 | Leon Bailey | Bayer Leverkusen | Talk Sprout; Football London | Cost £100m, he’s a winger or a midfielder who gives assists. Chelsea more likely |
| 5 | Jack Butland | Stoke | The Sun, 101 Great Goals | Liverpool also after this keeper |
| 6 | Karim Benzema | Real Mad | EPR Scouts, Football Transfer Tavern, Diario Gol, | Deal agreed £35m. No €60 million, |
| 7 | Emre Can | Liverpool | Fourth Official | Liverpool won’t give him an extension |
| 8 | Jasper Cillessen | Barcelona | Mundo Deportivo, Daily Cannon | A keeper. |
| 9 | Doucoured | Watford | Football London | Play next to Ramsey to bring “much needed brawn and steel to a weak midfield.” |
| NEW | Ousmane Dembele | Barcelona | Express, Don Balon | Arsenal can have him from Barcelona in a swap deal with Bellerin |
| 11 | Kerem Demirbay | Hoffenheim | TalkSport. Liga Financial, Star, AFC Fever | Midfielder, AFC price agreed, Liverpool want him. Price agreed |
| 12 | Leander Dendoncker | Anderlecht | Fourth Official | Defensive midfield, creative midfield… |
| 13 | Abdoulaye Doucoure | Watford | Hertfordshire Mercury | Goalkeeper. Watford want to keep him. Tots want him |
| 14 | Johnny Evans | WBA | Daily Mirror, Football London | He’s the key man we need. £3m from WBA if they go down |
| 15 | Nabil Fekir | Olympique Lyonnais | Arsenal’s number 1 target; attacking midfield | |
| 16 | Emil Forsberg | RB Leipzig | Sportwitness and Calcio Mercato | A replacement for Alexis Sanchez |
| 17 | Fred | Shakhtar | Gibfootballshow | Arsenal to get him for £30m |
| 18 | Willem Geubbels | Lyon | Football London | 16 years old forward, Barce, Leipzig and Chelsea also want him |
| 19 | Alex Grimaldo | Benfica | Read Arsenal | Left back. Man U, PSG & Monaco fancy him |
| 20 | Goncalo Guedes | PSG | Liga Financial | PSG must sell because of FFP, Arsenal have announced interest |
| NEW | Kai Havertz | Bayer Leverkusen | Metro, Mail, Tribal Football | AFC and Liverpool want him. Midfielder; B,L’s youngest ever player |
| NEW | Dean Henderson | Man U; Shrewsbury | Mirror, Football London | Wants to leave to get 1st team football. He’s a keeper |
| 23 | Lorenzo Insigne. | Napoli | CalcioMercato.it. Football fancast | An attacker, aged 26, Italian international |
| 24 | Jakub Jankto | Udinese | Teamtalk | It’s either Arsenal or AC Milan |
| 25 | Jorginho | Napoli | Hot Stepanovs | Faster and smaller than Xhaka |
| 26 | Kalidou Koulibaly | Napoli | Daily Mirror, Guardian | Centre back; top priority |
| 27 | Alban Lafont | Toulouse | Arsenal Mania, Daily Canon | Goalkeeper, Boyhood supporter of Arsenal. “Set to leave”. But he’s only 19. |
| 28 | Thomas Lemar | Monaco | ArsenalNewsHQ; Mirror; TalkSport. Star | Deal confirmed; has rejected a new contract. All go!!! |
| 29 | Leno | Bayer Leverkusen | Football London | A keeper available for just £22m |
| 30 | Lozano | PSV | Sport 360, Arsenal mania | Winger who can cut inside |
| 31 | Harry Maguire | Leicester | Sky Sports | Centre half. Man U also want him. |
| 32 | Malcolm | Bordeaux | FootballBible, Sport Review, Gunnerspheree, Football London | Winger; everyone is interested; he says he goes in the summer. But might go to China. No will play in a 3 man line behind the number 9. |
| 33 | Joao Mario | Inter on loan at WHU | Fourth Official | Midfield, and said to love London |
| 34 | Lautaro Martinez | Racing Club de Avellaneda | Gunnersphere | Striker. Inter have offered €20million |
| Update | Max Meyer | Schalke 04. | Football London, Daily Canon, Guardian, Talk Sport, Express. Contract ends this sesason | Attacking midfield or playmaker. Liverpool battling with Arsenal New Santi Cazorla |
| NEW | Keylor Navas | Real Madrid | Don Ballon, HITC, | A goalkeeper looking for work. He’s 31 |
| NEW | Wilfred Ndidi | Leicester | Mad About PL, Goonertalk, African Football, Sun | Midfielder, Man U want him too |
| 38 | Abulkadir Omur | Trabzonspor | Turkish football says Ozil recommends him | Central midfield |
| 39 | Oguzhan Ozyakup | Besiktas | Mail. Football London says Wenger obsessed the transfer | Arsenal to bring back their ex-player at the end of his contract |
| 40 | Pablo Moreno | Barcelona | Mundo Deportivo | He’s 15 and his contract runs out at the end of the season |
| 41 | Jan Oblak | Atletico Mad | FootballBible; Gibfootballshow | Goalkeeper also wanted by Chelsea and Liverpool. 100m euros. |
| NEW | Panagiotis Retsos | Bayer Leverkusen | Goal, 4th official | Greek South African defender |
| NEW | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | Borussia Dortmund | Birmingham Live, Gazzetta dello Sport | Man U, Junventus, Chelsea interested in 29 year old defender |
| 44 | Richarlison | Watford | EPL Scouts | Midfield, Chels & Tots also; Arsenal miss out & Arsenal to hijack deal, both on same site!!! |
| 45 | Daniele Rugani | Juventus | Whoscored | Defender. Agent confirms |
| 46 | Andre Silva | Milan | Mad about EPL | Attacking midfield “sensation” but failed to show his attributes this year. Wolverhampton also interested. |
| 47 | Chris Smalling | Man U | Daily Canon, Sport 360, Daily Star, Guardian | £25m will get him |
| 48 | Timo Werner | Leipzig | Arsenal mania, Sun | 21 year old who has scored a multitude of goals |
| 49 | Ben Wilmot | Stevenage | Sportsmole | 18 year old played a dozen or so games. Totts also interested |
| 50 | Wilfried Zaha | Crystal Palace | Liga Financial | Arsenal making a bid of £25m |
| 51 | Andrija Zivkovic | Benfica | Football Facts, The Record, EatSleepSports ArsenalStation, Telegraph, Giants, Tribal Football, Sport Witness | 21 year old striker. Man U also want him Price is £52m |
New on the manager front is Max Allegri who is coming from Juventus to Arsenal, maybe via a year out. Daily Canon, and Corriere della Sera have this one straight out of the fantasy factory.
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Off topic – I just thought I might copy a comment I made on a previous post.
I was very near the Moscow fans. There weren’t enough of them to fill the space, probably because it is a fair old distance to come, maybe also because given the recent Russophobic hysteria in this country they did not expect to be welcomed.
They caused no trouble that I could see. They chanted and sang a bit. At the end some of them took off their shirts and waved them at the players. They clapped their team off the pitch. They received the customary abuse from certain British Arsenal fans. Churlish to say the least since we were winning.
@ Lee
06/04/2018 at 7:18 pm
Just thought I would tell you I am a diehard Arsene Wenger fan.
Seing as Tony is back, I wonder if a food report will be forthcoming? Do Korean airports have good food?
🙂
OT: Women’s Football
In the current “news” cycle, is a story that tonight the Dutch were playing Ireland in Eindhoven. They were expecting 30,000 fans to be in attendance.
Something must be out of context here. On June 6, 2015 for the opening game of WWC-2014 in Canada, Canada played China in Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton with 53,058 in attendance. Way beyond 30,000.