“We won’t sell to Arsenal”, a worrying trend and 26 transfer rumours!

 

 

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By Sir Hardly Anyone

If you have been with Untold Arsenal through previous transfer windows you will know that we like to keep track on some of the players who are tipped by the media to be coming to Arsenal.

The highest number of accurate predictions ever was achieved last summer when fractionally over 3% of the predictions turned out to be true.

January transfers are normally smaller in number but this never stops the media from inventing (sorry, “reporting”) transfer tales, and so far we’ve noted 26 players said to be interesting Arsenal.

Of course transfer rumours may not mean a transfer, either because the player decides against Arsenal, Arsenal decide against the player, the two clubs can’t agree a fee, or the newspaper or website made the whole story up in the first place in order to fill up space and give the reader the wholly false impression that the media have the slightest idea of what is going on.

So it is quite possible, based on previous accuracy levels, that none of these players will actually be coming to Arsenal.

And just before we get to the list here are a couple of other tales doing the rounds:  

Football London (known as FoLo in the chart below) is telling us that Jesus not scoring is a “worrying trend” which is rather odd when one remembers that Arsenal are the second highest scoring team in the league (as well as being five points clear at the top of the table).

Meanwhile Caught Offside report than Man City have now set new club rule regarding future transfers to Arsenal – which is that the club “will not sell any more first-team stars to Arsenal after helping the Gunners form a title challenge by allowing two of their stars to move to the Emirates over the summer.”  One might ask a) if that is likely and b) if it is true, that the story should uniquely leak out to Caught Offside.

And Kevin Kilbane (the ex-Ireland international) has said that Matt Turner who plays for the USA (as well as Arsenal) is “not top class“:    So now we know.

Here’s the list of transfers.

 

	Player	Position	Current club	Source
Update	Tammy Abraham	Forward	Roma	TBR Caught Offside  HITC
Update	Rodrigo Becao	Defender	Udinese	Arsenal Station, Caught Offside TBR (update)
NEW	Jude Bellingham	Midfield	Borussia Dortmund	Metro
NEW	Moises Caicedo	Midfield	Brighton	FoLo
NEW	Fares Chaibi	Winger	Toulouse	TBR  Hard Tackle
Update	Samuel Chukwueze	Winger	Villarreal	Liverpool Echo, Caught Offside KopTimes
Update	Danilo	Midfield	Aston Villa	Caught offside  Give me sport
NEW	Memphis Depay	Forward	Barcelona	Sport Bible
NEW	Denzel Dumfries.	Right back	Inter Milan	Chelsea News FoLo
NEW	Endrick Felipe	Striker	Palmeiras	TBR and here
11	Cody Gakpo	Striker	PSV	TBR Express
Update	Alejandro Garnacho.	Winger	Man U	TBR, Sport Bible  TBR (again)
13	Ilkay Gundogan	Winger	Man C	FoLo
NEW	Piero Hincapie	Centre Back	Bayer Leverkusen	Fo Lo
NEW	N’Golo Kante	Midfield	Chelsea	Football Fancast
16	Milinkovic-Savic	Midfield	Lazio	HITC
Update	Mykhaylo Mudryk	Winger	Shakhtar Donetsk	TBR; FoLo , Newcastle World Mailonline.  Shields Gazette Caught offside Mirror HITC London World FoLo (again)
18	Noah Okafor,	Forward	RB Salzburg	FoLo; Sport Witness, Hammers News, HITC Mirror
NEW	Robert Renan	Defender	Corinthians	Arsenal Station
20	Cristiano Ronaldo	Forward	Man U	Express
21	Milan Skriniar	Centre back	Inter	Football Talk, FoLo, HITC
Update	Marcus Thuram	Goalscoring forward	Borussia Monchengladbach	Caught offside TBR Sportwitness  SportBible. Newcastle want him,
Update	Youri Tielemans	Midfield	Leicester	FoLo, PG Sport Gooner Talk FoLo (again!)  FoLo (they’re obsessed!)
24	Facundo Torres	Wing	Orlando City	Express
25	Leandro Trossard	Winger	Brighton	Sussex Express
NEW	Zaniolo	Midfield	Roma	Football365,  FoLo

 

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