44 players coming to Arsenal; 22 players leaving: the full list

 

 

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By Sir Hardly Anyone

There are of course two ways of writing up football transfer rumours, which make up the vast bulk of football “reporting” during the summer.  One is to take the name of a player and suggest that Arsenal are interested in him and call that an exclusive, the other is to read everyone else’s stories and repeat one of those adding such extras as “talks are moving at a fast pace” or “Arsenal are bulking at the price being asked” or “the player would prefer to move to Chelsea where he is more likely to get playing time” or whatever.  By and large research does not come into it, which is why virtually all the reports we count in our regular transfer feature each window then quote another website as a source.  No one wants the responsibility or being 97% or 98% wrong, which is the normal error rate.

But this summer’s transfer table is slightly different, because just two weeks into the window the stories seem to have stopped with everyone simply re-running everyone else’s news.

Quite why that is, I am not sure.  Maybe the Toppled Bollard public house where London journalists gather to make up these tales has started putting that “little something extra in the drink” and that has slowed the addled brains down even further.

Or maybe our regular pointing out the 97% inaccuracy rate of journalistic endeavors in this regard has finally bit home and the media simply have got fed up with being laughed at.

Anyway, this week we have struggled to find any new stories at all in the incoming players list, although a lot of players have been tipped over and over again (as shown as Updated).

On the other hand three more players are tipped as leaving.

44 Incoming players this summer

 

No	Player	Position	From	Sources	No of reports
1	Ilias Akhomach	Forward	Barcelona	Football Express	1
2	Julian Alvarez	Forward	Man City	FFC  The Top Flight	2
3	Marco Asensio	Right wing	Real Madrid	Metro, HITC	2
4	Nicolò Barella	Midfield	Inter Milan	An alternative to Rice FFC and again HITC	3
5	Harvey Barnes	Winger	Leicester	FoLo	1
6	Sacha Boey.	Defender	Galatasaray	HITC  GMS	2
7	Bitello	Midfield	Grêmio	SportWitness	1
Update	Moises Caicedo	Def midfield	Brighton	Fo-Lo  Give Me Sport  Terms Agreed – Mirror  Sports Bible, Arsenal Station Telegraph  AFC pulled out  FoLo – its now unlikely  To Chelsea AFC still on  GMS  TBR	12
Update	Joao Cancelo	Full back	Manchester City	On loan with Bayern.  Sky Football Talk  GiveMeSport – it will be difficult FFC  Football Talk   “Agreed” FoLo  HITC  FFC TBR GivemeSport	10
10	Timothy Castagne	Right back	Leicester City	Leicester having a fire sale  Modest price	2
11	Federico Chiesa	Forward	Juventus	TBR	1
Update	Moussa Diaby	Winger	Bayer Leverkusen	Football Talk  Arsenal in the lead  Team Talk.  No its Villa (Hitc) and Birmingham World   F365  TBR FFC	8
Update	Ivan Fresneda	Defender	Valladolid.	FFC FFC (again)	2
14	Jeremie Frimpong	Right back	Bayer Leverkusen	London World	1
15	Serge Gnabry	Midfield	Bayern Munich	FoLo	1
16	Wilfried Gnonto	Winger	Leeds	FoLo	1
17	Arda Guler	Forward	Fenerbahce	Football Fan Cast	1
18	Ilkay Gundogan	Midfield	Manchester City	Evening Standard   GivemeSport  Hard Tackle TBR TBR (2) Telegraph	7
19	Kai Havertz	Attacking midfield	Chelsea	TheRealChamps  3 Added Minutes, TBR HITC  Henry says he’s worth it  FoLo Football Fancat Bayern want him  HITC  Chelsea say no  90min  EPL Index  Team Talk  HITC  Chelsea want £70m  Goal- he’s going to Bayern   AFC leading  Compared to Bergkamp Caught Offside (He chooses his number) It’s done and its weird (FFC)  It would be a mistake (Last Word) Having a medical HITC  Get Football FFC	25
20	Goncalo Iancio	Centre half	Sporting Lisbon	Metro F365 Metro (again)	3
21	Brennan Johnson	Wing	Nottingham Forest	HITC	1
22	N’Golo Kante	Defensive midfield	Chelsea	Telegraph	1
Update	Romeo Lavia	Defensive midfield	Southampton	TBR Arseblog Team Talk FFC The Top Flight  Deal done (Just Arsenal News) TBR   Going to Liverpool but prefers Arsenal (Team Talk) Arsenal Station Teamtalk  Express  Team Talk (4th review) No its not on: Football League World  Just starting (Rousingthekop) Inside Futbol  GivemeSport	16
24	Maddison	Attacking midfield	Leicester	Mirror	1
25	Sergej Milinkovic-Savic	Midfield	Lazio	Goal.  Maybe Saudi bound (HITC)	2
26	Mason Mount	Midfield	Chelsea	Telegraph	1
27	Kylian Mbappe	Forward	PSG	TBR, Team Talk   £100m fee (TBR)	3
28	Ethan Nwaneri	Attacking midfield		EPLIndex (He played v Brentford aged 15)	1
29	Amadou Onana	Defensive midfield	Everton	Telegraph	1
30	Benjamin Pavard	Defender	Bayern Munich	FFC	1
31	Adrian Rabiot	Midfield	Juventus	Sports Mole – no its Man U or Newcastle (Caught offside)	3
32	Declan Rice	Defensive midfield	West Ham	Football London, Sun., Metro  Football Talk.   “Terms agreed” Football Transfers.  Going to Man U, 4th Official  Shoot  Give Me Sport.  Mirror (“it’s on”)  It will happen soon (HITC)  Bid Made (HITC)   Going to Chelsea (TBR) Quick move to AFC (Give me sport) The Top Flight  AFC offer too low   Going to Man C.  Not Arsenal  Mailonline Going to AFC (TBR).  WHU Unhappy (Le Grove)	22
33	Alexis Sanchez	Forward	Marseille	The Sun Football 365 (player has called Arteta)	2
34	Savio	Right Wing	Troyes	TBR	1
Update	Xavi Simons	Forward	PSV	Hard Tackle   TBR – it’s happening. Mirror  Caught offside – a loan deal.  Express  Caught offside	6
36	Dominik Szoboszla	Attacking midfield	RB Leipzig	Daily Canon	1
37	Mehdi Taremi	Striker	Porto	HITC	1
38	Youri Tielemans	Midfield	Leicester City	HITC Telegraph	2
39	Jurrien Timber	Defender	Ajax	FFC ESPN Caught Offside FoLo TBR  AFC have advantage (Sports Bible) Give me Sport  Sports Mole   He signed (TBR)	9
40	Dusan Vlahovic	Forward	Juventus	€80m  Calciomercatoweb,Telegraph	2
41	Elye Wahi	Forward	Montpellier	Caught Offside; Sport Witness Express	3
42	Kyle Walker	Right back	Man City	Football Fancast The Top Flight	2
43	Nico Williams	Forward	Athletic Bilbao	TBR	1
44	Wilfried Zaha	Wing	Crystal Palace	Football 365	1

 

And the 22 players that are said to be leaving Arsenal.

No	Player	To	Notes	No
Update	Balogun	Crystal Palace, Chelsea, Juventus, InterMilan	TBR  Just Arsenal .  FoLo  FoLo again (to Leipzig).  And again!  TBR (again ) Metro  Culto (to Inter) F365 Get Football  Mail Online  EPL Index (to Inter) Chelsea Chron  Express Caught Offside  Goonertalk F365  Sport Witness, Last Word	19
2	Gabriel	PSG	PSG Talk. Hard Tackle	2
3	Okonkwo or Hein	?	FoLo; one of the keepers will go	1
NEW	Rob Holding	Besiktas	First offer rejected: Mirror	1
NEW	Kaleel Green	?	Arsenal youth	1
NEW	Joel Ideho		Arsenal youth	1
7	Jorginho	AC Milan or Napoli	Sportsmole	1
8	George Lewis	Norwegian club	Daily Canon	1
9	Ainsley Maitland Niles	Released	Multiple reports	1
10	Marquinhos	Going on loan	TBR	1
11	Nketiah	West Ham	Hammers News   He’s worried about his future (Just Arsenal).  Questioning his future (Metro) and Mirror	3
12	Martin Odegaard	PSG	FoLo	1
13	Mazeed Ogungbo	Barrow	Transfer confirmed for 20 year old  FL World	1
14	Okonkwo or Hein	?	FoLo; one of the keepers will go	1
Update	Thomas Partey	Two undisclosed Serie A clubs or Saudi	Just Arsenal  Just Arsenal (again)  Team Talk (to Saudi) Express  Team Talk (again).  Express (again)	7
15	Pépé	???	TBR  TeamTalk: AFC may terminate contract	2
16	Tino Quamina			1
17	Emile Smith Rowe	WHU	HITC  Not leaving: (Teamtalk)	2
18	Mathaeus Roberts	Released	Talk Sport	1
19	Matt Smith	Released	Arsenal youth	1
20	Tom Smith	Released	Gazette News	1
Update	Tierney	Newcastle, Celtic	Mirror And Mirror again   TBR  Newcastle World. TeamTalk  Not going anywhere.  TBR  FFC (to Newcastle) To Celtic (Daily Record)	10
22	Xhaka	He’s gone	FoLo	1