by Sir Hardly Anyone
Here are all the transfers so far as we seek to get 120 tales of departure by the end of the window. There are of course some amusing tales – Gareth Bale for example – and some like Fernandes (being priced at £100m) who might be a little beyond our budget.
Meanwhile 12 players are said to be leaving.
Now in case this all looks a bit odd to you, I should add that we have in recent years had the entire first team squad predicted as going, plus over 100 players tipped to be arising. And the winsome window isn’t even open yet. So this is early days.
| No | Player | Current club | Source | Notes |
| NEW | Toby Alderweireld | Tottenham H | TBR Football, Sun | He’s 30 years old |
| 2 | Gareth Bale | Real Madrid | She wore a yellow | 87% of RM fans want him out |
| 3 | Ismael Bennacer | Empoli | HITC, Pain in the Arsenal | Ex Arsenal youth player |
| 4 | Marcelo Brozociv | Inter Milan | Transfer Tavern citing CalcioMercato | £40.5m; a “tough midfielder” |
| 5 | Samuel Chukwueze | Villareal | Foot Lond | Nigerian forward |
| NEW | Bruno Fernandes | Sporting | O Jogo, Sport Witness | Chelsea, Man C, Juventus want him, £100m release clause |
| 7 | Ryan Fraser | Bournemouth | Express, Mirror | One year left on contract |
| 8 | Jean Philippee Gbamain | Mainz | Read Arsenal | On his way |
| 9 | Ander Herrera | Man U | Express | PSG also interested |
| NEW | Gabrielle Martinelli | Ituano | Metro according to reports in Brazil, also Express | 17 year old winger, equivalent of Son Heung-min |
| 11 | Paul Mitchell | Leipzig | Sports Mole; 90 min, Football 365, Sky; Talksport | Man U and Chelsea interested |
| 12 | N’Zonzi | Roma (midfield) | HITC | £19m; he’s considerred a flot at Roma |
| 13 | David Neres | Everton | Telegraph, Foot Lond | £34.5m; talks held. Liverpool want him |
| 14 | Christopher Nkunku | PSG | Foot Lond, Le Parisien | Midfield; he’s turned down a contract renewal |
| 15 | Nicolas Pepe | Lille | 101 Great Goals, Telefoot | Star striker. Man U also interested. |
| NEW | Ivan Perisic | Inter Milan | Spursweb, Gazzetta dello sport | Tots and WHU interested |
| NEW | Dennis Praet | Sampdoria | Corriere dello Sport , Sport Witness | Midfielder or winger |
| NEW | Benito Raman | Fortna Dusseldorf | Express | WHU, Burnley, Everton interested |
| NEW | Jordon Veretout | Fiorentina | Metro | 25m euros for Ramsey II |
| NEW | Wesley | Club Brugges | Sun, Calciomercato, Daily Cannon, LaLazio | Forward, 22 years old |
Leaving Arsenal this summer…
Everyone is off: “Stars may exit if Arsenal fail to make the Champions League this summer” says the Guardian but really I think that is cheating.
| No | Player | Going to | Source | Notes |
| 1 | Aubameyang | Real Madrid | FootLond | FL cite Calciomercato |
| Update | Chambers | ??? | FoodLond | Off to Tottenham (HITC) no Everton (TBR) |
| NEW | Elneny | Roma | Daily Cannon | |
| NEW | Jenkinson | FootLond | “He’s up for sale” | |
| NEW | Kolasinac | FootLond | ||
| NEW | Mkhitaryan | Star, Mail | Star blames the Mail for the story. | |
| NEW | Mustafi | Roma | Daily Cannon, | “He’s up for sale” Express |
| NEW | Ospina | FootLond | “He’s up for sale” HITC says player himself says he wants to go. | |
| NEW | Ozil | FootLond | “He’s up for sale” | |
| NEW | Smith Rowe | Leipzig | Foot Lond | “He’s staying” exclusive from FL, but others say he’s off. |
| 11 | Welbeck | Daily Cannon | Injured and out of contract | |
| 12 | Xhaka | Inter Milan | Sund Express, BT Sport | Player says he wants to move. Inter wants him |
Moving Up
Bukayo Saka and Arthur Okonkwo ahead of the Premier League clash against Wolverhampton Wanderers according to AllNigeriaSoccer.
More rumours as we hear of them…
During the coming summer window, The players who will come in to Arsenal will come in and the ones who will go out from the club will go out. So, therefore let’s not bother ourselves over Arsenal summer transfer rumours as they are being published in the media, For, the print media is there doing it’s work churning out the transfer rumours but mostly without truths in them. Nevertheless, us Gooners can read these Arsenal summer transfer rumours if us want to read them but leave them as they are not getting ourselves worked up over the rumours as us know that only 1 or 2 out of 100 or more of any Arsenal transfer rumours in a window will not come to fruition.
Anyway, I don’t even think Arsenal are in the transfer mode at this time in the run-in to the season’s campaign. But rather, I believe the club’s coaching personnel are more concerned on how the Gunners will return to the winning ways to win their remaining 2 matches of the season in the PL as a top four place finish this season is not yet dead for Arsenal to grab it as another twists and turns in the PL could still happen in the last 2 matches of the season that could see Arsenal grab on of the prestigious 4 PL Ucl spots for next season on the final day of the season. While in the run-in in the Europa League Cup semi-final matches also, I believe Arsenal are working hard day and night more than ever to beat Valencia convincingly in the 1st leg of the 2 legged semi-final match on Thursday night this week at the Ems.
In this Arsenal Europa League Cup match at home against Valencia. It has looked to me some Gunners in the forward line were leggy and suffering from fatigue in Arsenal PL last away match to Leicester. Therefore, would Unai Emery wants to consider taking a big gamble in the match that could yield high dividend for Arsenal by starting Joe Willock, Bukola Saka and Eddie Nkethia at the same time in the Valencia match?
During the coming summer window, The players who will come in to Arsenal will come in and the ones who will go out from the club will go out. So, therefore let’s not bother ourselves over Arsenal summer transfer rumours as they are being published in the media, For, the print media is there doing it’s work churning out the transfer rumours but mostly without truths in them. Nevertheless, us Gooners can read these Arsenal summer transfer rumours if us want to read them but leave them as they are not getting ourselves worked up over the rumours as us know that only 1 or 2 out of 100 or more of any Arsenal transfer rumours in a window may come to fruition.
Anyway, I don’t even think Arsenal are in the transfer mode at this time in the run-in to the season’s campaign. But rather, I believe the club’s coaching personnel are more concerned on how the Gunners will return to the winning ways to win their remaining 2 matches of the season in the PL as a top four place finish this season is not yet dead for Arsenal to grab it as another twists and turns in the PL could still happen in the last 2 matches of the season that could see Arsenal grab one of the prestigious 4 PL Ucl spots for next season on the final day of the season in the PL. While in the run-in in the Europa League Cup semi-final matches also, I believe Arsenal are working hard day and night more than ever to beat Valencia convincingly in the 1st leg of the 2 legged semi-final match on Thursday night this week at the Ems.
In this Arsenal Europa League Cup match at home against Valencia. It has looked to me some Gunners in the forward line were leggy and likely suffering from fatigue in Arsenal last away match to Leicester in the PL. Therefore, would Unai Emery wants to consider taking a big gamble in the match that could yield high dividend for Arsenal by starting Joe Willock, Bukola Saka and Eddie Nkethia at the same time in the Valencia match?
What I find disturbing is that we have no real youth player making it up to the first team this season. Last season our U23 won the title but we didn’t see anyone making it to the first team of them. I know Nelson and Smith-Rowe are on loan but I thought Nelson should have gotten his chance at Arsenal this season. We sure could have used a 7-8 goal scoring winger who can use pace and trickery to get past opponents.
And from our current crop of talent we also don’t see anyone giving much play time. Nketiah can come on when the match is lost and show some good things.
I fear our current coach isn’t as willing to take risks with our own youth players as the one before him.
Tottenham Hotspur playing at home tonight in the UCL semi-final 1st leg match against Ajax of Amsterdam but not having their world class striker and prolific goals scorer in Harry Kane due to injury and Son Heung-min due to 1 match ban are a goal down in the match to Ajax. But despite these duo forwards absent for Tottenham in the match, I am expecting Spurs to find a way in the match to hit Ajax back with an equalising goal and go ahead to win the match.
To my surprise, Tottenham Hotspur who I think will comeback in the game to cancel out the 1 goal deficit suffered to them by Ajax in the 1st half and go ahead to win the match did not equalise talk-less of them to go ahead to win the match. Hmmm.