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By Sir Hardly Anyone
As we have done for a number of years, Untold is recording the names of players that the highly esteemed English media report as being on the move – both incoming and outgoing. As ever those players who have been added or had more details revealed in terms of the transfer are so note in the first column.
For the first time in four windows Zaha is not on the list! But nonetheless, we have 36 players coming to Arsenal and 20 players “set to leave” as these journo chappies love to say.
But you might note how players newly added all cluster around a certain part of the alphabet. This is what happens each year, and it looks as if the journalists are just working through an alphabetical index of footballers – but of course I am sure there is more to it than that.
Just one other point: the window isn’t yet open. But this is what we have so far…
No | Player | Source | Club | Notes |
1 | Tammy Abraham | TBR | Roma | Forward |
2 | Kerem Akturkoglu | TeamTalk | Galatasaray. | Forward |
NEW | Ronald Araujo | Express | Barcelona | Defender |
4 | Yves Bissouma | HITC, 90 Min | Brighton | Midfield. Requested a transfer. Liverpool want him |
5 | Armando Broja | Mirror, Caught Offside | Chelsea (loan at Southampton) | Forward |
Update | Dominic Calvert-Lewin | Express, Mirror, Mail, F365 | Everton | Forward; Everton now ready to sell. WHU want him |
6 | Reyes Cleary | Foot365, Canon. | WBA | 17 year old forward |
7 | Phillipe Coutinho | Mirror, Give Me Sport | Aston Villa | £33.57m |
8 | Danilo | Teamtalk | Leeds | Defensive midfield |
Update | Jonathan David | Express, Mirror, Foot365, PBR, FoLo | Lille | Forward; agent confirms he’s leaving. It’s on |
11 | Paulo Dybala | HITC: Totts want him also | Juventus | Forward |
12 | Joao Felix | Football London, Daily Canon, HITC | Atletico Madrid | Replacement for Lacazette |
13 | Erling Haaland | HITC, Sky, Express | Borussia Dortmund | Age 21. £250m |
14 | Eden Hazard | HITC, AS | Real Madrid | £33.5m |
15 | Alexander Isak | Express, Mirror, | Real Sociedad | Forward, £75 release clause |
16 | Luka Jovic | Football.London | Real Madrid | Everton, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund |
17 | Noa Lang | Hard Tackle; Team Talk | Club Brugge | Liverpool and Milan also want him. Seen as replacement for Pepe but player fancies Milan. £25m |
18 | Robert Lewandowski | Express | Bayern Munich | Striker |
19 | Jesper Lindstrom | HITC | Eintracht Frankfurt | Attacking midfield |
20 | Lautaro Martinez | Caught Offside | Inter Milan | Forward. WHU interested |
NEW | Cristhian Mosquera | Express | Valencia | 17 year old centre back |
Update | Darwin Nunez | Mirror, Standard, Express 442, TBR, F365, FoLo | Benfica. £67m | Forward. Transfer in progress. At Madrid no longer interested |
23 | Lucas Paqueta | Hard Tackle | Lyon | PSG, At Madrid also want him |
24 | Yeremy Pino | HITC | Villarreal | Release clause worth €80m. Forward |
Update | Paul Pogba | Football.London | Man U | Contract talks broken down. AFC to blow other clubs out of the water |
26 | Michael Olise | HITC | Crystal Palace | £24m |
27 | Victor Osimhen | HITC, Corriere dello Sport, Mirror | Napoli | £84m centre forward |
Update | Marcus Rashford | 90 Min, HITC, TalkSport, Daily Cannon, Express, Sport Review | Man U | Forward; Keene warns AFC against buying him. Totts could hi-jack deal. “Suprise swoop” (Sp Rev) |
Update | Sergi Roberto | Football London | Barcelona | Right back. At Madrid no longer interested |
30 | Renato Sanches | Sun, Mirror, Sports Mole | Lille | Midfield. Juventus want him |
31 | Djed Spence | Hard Tackle | Middlesbrough on loan at Forest | Full back |
NEW | Raheem Stirling | HITC | Man City | Available for £80m |
NEW | Youri Tielemans | Star | Leicester | Man U also interested, Midfield |
NEW | Lesley Ugochukwu | HITC | Rennes | 2nd Patrick Vieira. AFC convinced of signing |
NEW | Jesus Vazquez | Express | Valencia | Left back |
36 | Dusan Vlahovic | F365 | Juventus | Serbian Striker |
37 | Cristian Zavala | Colo Colo | Player says “my dream transfer” | Midfielder, hasn’t actually played for Colo Colo yet! |
Leaving Arsenal
HITC Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are unlikely to block Kieran Tierney from leaving for Real Madrid if the price is right, according to The Sunday Post.
The report has claimed that Spanish and European giants Madrid are planning on making a bid of £50 million for the former Celtic left-back.
No | Player | Source | Club | Notes |
1 | Dan Ballard | News at Den | Millwall | Loan |
2 | Hector Bellerin | Team Talk | Free Agent | |
3 | Mohamed Elneny | Free Agent | ||
4 | Matteo Guendouzi | Team Talk | Marseille | Loan made permanent |
5 | Rob Holding | Mirror | Open to offers | |
6 | Alex Lacazette | Free Agent | ||
7 | Bernd Leno | Team Talk | ||
Update | Ainsley Maitland-Niles | Team Talk | On offer for £10m | |
9 | Pablo Mari | Team Talk | Leaving if Saliba joins first team | |
10 | Gabriel Martinelli | Sports Review | Liverpool | Klopp expressing admiration |
11 | Konstantinos Mavropanos | TeamTalk | Stuttgart | Loan made permanent |
12 | Eddie Nketiah | Evening Standard | Crystal Palace | Free Agent |
13 | Nicolas Pepe | Mirror | Club happy to lose him | |
14 | Alex Runarsson | Team Talk | ||
15 | William Saliba | Caught Offside | Marseille | Happy to stay at the club |
16 | Cedric Soares | Team Talk | ||
NEW | Kieran Tierney | Mirror | Real Mad | £50m |
18 | Lucas Torreira | Team Talk | Fiorentina | |
19 | Auston Trusty | Team Talk | ||
20 | Granit Xhaka | Team Talk, Just Arsenal | Roma | But may stay – Roma not willing to meet price |
There will be a further update to this list shortly, and all being well we’ll continue with it until the window shuts.
Haaland and Rashford,transfers that won’t happen,media just happy to continue to link this players to Arsena,very sure if Arsenal fails to get the champions league spot,most of this names won’t be linked again, we’ll start to see another new set of names.
Then the story will be that “Arsenal miss out on XXXX and YYYYY” – 0r “XXXX and YYYY snub Arsenal”,
“Edu fails to land XXXX and YYYY” etc.
or “Arsenal fans angry at failure to sign XXXX and YYYY” and so on.
I can’t wait for Arsenal to be linked again with Karim Benzema.