By Tony Attwood
Welcome once more to the mighty Arsenal Transfer Index – the 11th edition of the 2017 version.
The number of players Arsenal are buying is how up to a giddy 57 – and we still are 16 days away from the window creaking open. As for the leavers 16 players out of the 25 are on their way out, and Alexis is amazingly going to five different clubs simultaneously. Quite a clever trick and one that is destined to deliver unto his pocket quite a bit of ready cash I should not wonder.
Seven players are new to the list and we have a number of updates as well.
Part 1: The players coming in
| No | Player | Club | Position | Notes |
| 1 | Tammy Abraham | Chelsea | Striker | Currently on loan to Bristol City |
| 2 | Marcelo Allende | Deportes Santa Cruz | Attack m’f | Had 3 trials, training with first team. Signing today! Actually that was two weeks ago. |
| 3 | Marco Asensio | Real Madrid | Attack Midfield | Man U and Roma interested. He’s unhappy at Real Mad. He’s 21. |
| 4 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | Borussia Dortmund | Forward | £80m to replace Alexis. Man U want him |
| 5 | Carlos Bacca | AC Milan | Striker | He’s 32 years old. Was going to WHU |
| 6 | Gareth Bale | Real Mad | Striker | Stan Collymore tipped this one. |
| 7 | Ross Barkley | Everton | Attack mid | Been there since 2010 and played 150 games – does he really want to come? |
| 8 | Karim Benzema | Real Mad | F’wd | Definitely going to either AFC or Chelsea |
| 9 | Andrea Belotti | Juventus | F’wd | Sadly he has just signed a new contract |
| NEW | Yacine Brahimi | Porto | Attack m/field | He’s 27 and plays for Algeria. |
| 11 | Joel Campbell | Return | F’wd | Loan period ending |
| 12 | Iker Casillas | Porto | Goal | To solve our goalkeeping “crisis” |
| NEW | Hakan Calhanoglu | Bayern Leverkusen | Playmaker | |
| 14 | Kingsley Coman | Juventus | Wing | On loan with Bayern this season |
| 15 | Virgil Van Dijk | Southampton | Defence | Helps us play a back 3 all the time |
| 16 | Ederson | Benfica | Goal | 23 year old to replace Cech |
| NEW | Danilo and Silva | Paços de Ferreira | Arsenal scouts are watching them even though they no longer play there. | |
| NEW | Cesc Fabregas | Chelsea | Midfield | Daily Mirror says its a deal |
| 19 | Emil Forsberg | RB Leipzig | Midfield | He’s Swedish and he’s 25 years old |
| 20 | Jose Luis Gaya | Valencia | LB | Man City winning the race |
| 21 | Ben Gibson | Middlesbrough | Centre back | £30m. Tottenham want him. |
| NEW | Aleksandr Golovin | CSKA Moscow | Midfield | Going cheap at £10m. AFC in the final stages of buying him. |
| 23 | Leon Goretzka | Shalke | Midfield | £21m, 1 yr left on contract. Wanted to replace Ozil (Most quoted story by far) |
| 24 | Antoine Griezmann | Atlético Madrid | Forward | Man U don’t want him after all. |
| 25 | Amine Harit. | Nantes | M’fld | Arsenal have given him a trial. He is 19-years-old |
| 26 | Lorenzo Insigne | Napoli | F’wd | Liverpool! are on alert! |
| 27 | Jakub Jankto | Udinese | M’fld | To play alongside Xhaka |
| 28 | Naby Keïta | RB Leipzig | Right back | Has refused to sign a new contract |
| 29 | Grzegorz Krychowiak | PSG | Def M’fd | New in the sense that this is the first entry for him this year, but it is the third year he has been tipped to join us. |
| 30 | Koke | Atl Madrid | M’fld | Replacement for Santi Cazorla |
| 31 | Dawid Kownacki | Lech Poznan | Striker | the new Robert Lewandowski’ |
| SIGNED | Sead Kolašinac | Schalke | Defender | The deal is announced by Arsenal |
| 33 | Kylian Mbappe | Monaco | F’wd | The French press seem sure this is on at around €100m. Man U have bid £120m |
| 34 | Alexandre Lacazette | Olympique Lyonnais | Striker | Man City want him. At. Madrid can’t because of their buying ban. Mr Wenger spotted in France. Cost is £50m |
| Update | Mario Lemina | Juventus | Cent mid | He’s 23, previously with Lorient and Marseille and is flattered by Arsenal’s interest. “Arsenal’s top midfield target” |
| 36 | Romelu Lukaku | Everton | Forward | Dead cert to join AFC |
| 37 | Riyad Mahrez | Leicester | Winger | He says he has an agreement that he can now leave. Tottenham want him too. But there’s a technical hitch |
| 38 | Henry Onyekuru | KAS Eupen | Forward | He’s 19 usually plays on the left, one for the future. Not going to WHU, but is off to Dortmund |
| Update | Oguzhan Ozyakup | Besiktas | Midfield | £20m is the fee being quoted. He says he wants to come to Europe. Roma have offer £13m |
| 40 | Florentin Pogba | St Etienne | Defender | Brother of Paul at Man U |
| NEW | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | Borussia Dortmund | Defender | Chelsea and Arsenal are after him according to the increasingly unbelievable Sun |
| 42 | Leandro Paredes | Roma | Midfield | A story from last year now resurrected |
| 43 | Jordon Pickford | Sunderland | Goal | Although Mr W has said he is not looking to sign a keeper. Man U, Everton and Liverpool want him. “Bid expected” |
| 44 | Danilo Pereira | Porto | Midfield enforcer | Juventus also want him |
| 45 | Pizzi | Benfica | Playmaker | Liverpool and Juventus want him |
| NEW | James Rodriguez | Real Madrid | Midf/wing | Juventus Milan Man U want him. Bid made |
| 47 | Ivan Perisic | Inter | Midf/wing | Man U desperate for him |
| 48 | Kasper Schmeichel | Leicester | Goal | The man to solve our goalkeeping “crisis” |
| 49 | Patrik Schick | Sampdoria | Centre forward | ‘Next Ibrahimovic’. Expected to go to Juventus but they have not finalised the deal |
| 50 | Michaël Seri | Nice | Midfield | Tottenham, Barcelona and PSG want him. |
| NEW | Leandro Miguel Pereira Silva | Académica | Midfield | He’s on loan from Porto – and the info on him is confusing. I think not |
| 52 | Chris Smalling. | Man U | Centre back | Played 153 times for Man U. |
| 53 | Wojciech Szczesny | Roma loan | Goal | Mr W. said that he is not looking to sign a keeper (allegedly) so everyone assumes it is Szcz’s return |
| 54 | John Terry | Chelsea | Nasty | This story from the Daily Mail |
| UPDATE | Corentin Tolisso | Lyon | M/fld or F’wd | French international, dreams of Arsenal. Still being mentioned. £30m & is ready to leave |
| 56 | Arda Turan | Barcelona | M’fld | He’s 30 years old |
| 57 | Jack Wilshere | Bournemouth | M’fld | 75% of guys in the pub want him back |
Part 2: The 16 players already said to be on their way out mean Arsenal will have to do some serious buying the coming couple of months.
| No | Player | Club | Notes |
| 1a | Alexis | Man C | Guardiola making £50m offer his summer priority. £50m. Talk Sprout says it is done. Mirror says he is finalising. |
| 1b | Alexis | Chelsea | Will play out contract and go on a free to Chelsea. |
| 1c | Alexis | Man U | Has already agreed deal |
| 1d | Alexis | Nowhere | Mr Wenger has said “he is staying” |
| NEW | Alexis | Real Mad | |
| Update | Krystian Bielik | Birmingham | City keen to extend loan for another year. Norwich keen. Also Nottm Forest |
| Update | Bellerin | Barcelona | Barce will sign him; no, he is happy to stay. No Barce are getting him on a cut price deal (details of which are unclear) |
| 4 | Campbell | Fenerbahce | Currently in talks to sign |
| 5 | Francis Coquelin | Valencia | This story has been going on and on and on and… |
| 6a | Olivier Giroud | Marseille | He wants to play more games. |
| NEW | Giroud | West Ham | They really want him as they need more pace! |
| 7 | Jenkinson | Newcastle | Just promoted, need players |
| 8 | Koscielny | Marseille | He’s just had enough |
| 9 | Ospina | Fenerbahce | Some are just saying “to Turkey” |
| NEW | Oxlade Chamb | Liverpool! | They have offered £40m and made it a priority |
| 11 | Özil | Real Mad | They realise they should have kept him. Mr Wenger says, he is staying |
| 12 | Lucas Perez | PSG | He’s an “outcast” according to “reports” |
| 13 | Sanogo | Released | |
| 14 | Wojciech Szczesny | Napoli | Every newspaper seems to have this one. |
| 15 | Nathan Tella | Southampton | Deal done and completed – he was released |
| 16 | Theo Walcott | West Ham | Ray Wilkins says he must leave to protect his career |
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- Supposing we cull 10 players to meet the “25” limit, what sort of squad do we have?
Untold Social
The greatest living Arsenal supporter hasn’t wasted much time. What an opportunist!
@Leon,
what are you talking about ?
The greatest ever idiot – part of aaa first response.
Not aaa, but probably fake or maybe plastic. Anyway he couldn’t even wait for the ashes to settle.
Ray Wilkins….Lol. good old Butch. Full of wisdom 😉
Could Fabregas take Santi’s place anyone? Or is he not good enough?
Para
Yes he could, but is he acceptable now?
I know odd things happen every day, but I can’t see why we’d re-employ a player that went ‘On Strike’ to get his move away to Barca.
Re-signing him would give the message to every other AFC squad member that they can cause cr4p to get a move away and they can come back if it all goes wrong…
So IMO Cesc returning ever would be a major surprise…
The Asensio one is just hilarious. He’s just won the Champions League and scored in the final and is about to sign a whopping new contract. To say he’s ‘unhappy’ is just a flat out lie. Somebody literally made that up to fill column space. Journalists. Jeez.
Para
No he could not.
The athelete has been a irregular starter at club level for the last period and never at the national level. He’s not been the same athlete since his infamous “Bruised Bone” injury (not even called as a foul btw) was combined with rushing back from that injury for a WC (no reasonable soul would except any athlete to act differently), where he eventually only got on as a sub as Cazorla was out injured (i think).