31 players tipped to be coming to Arsenal in January and the major culprits

 

 

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By Sir Hardly Anyone

If you want an example of how exactitude and straightforwardness don’t go with football reporting.  And that point was made particularly strongly by the notorious Football.London website (known unaffectionately here as FoLo) commentary which begins “It’s the halfway point of the season”.

No it isn’t – it is the third-way point of the season (36.84% if you want to be exact).  And if you can’t even get that right, what chance is there of getting any transfer predictions right?  And if percentages are not your thing, try and maths.  There are 38 games in a season, and so 19 games is half way.  And just checking in case those pesky administrators at the Premier League have slipped any games in while I am not looking, there have not been 19 games played.  Here’s the top of the table to prove my point…

 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Arsenal	14	12	1	1	33	11	22	37
2	Manchester City	14	10	2	2	40	14	26	32

 

So not half way through.  And if they can’t get that right, what chance of having insider information on Arsenal’s transfer dealings?

Here is the current list of players Arsenal are trying to buy (according to sources)…

 

	Player	Position	Current club	Source
1	Tammy Abraham	Forward	Roma	TBR Caught Offside  HITC
NEW	Marco Asensio	Winger	Real Madrid	Daily Canon
Update	Rodrigo Becao	Defender	Udinese	Arsenal Station, Caught Offside TBR (update) And again TBR
Update	Jude Bellingham	Midfield	Borussia Dortmund	Metro, FoLo, FoLo again
5	Moises Caicedo	Midfield	Brighton	FoLo
6	Fares Chaibi	Winger	Toulouse	TBR,  Hard Tackle
7	Samuel Chukwueze	Winger	Villarreal	Liverpool Echo, Caught Offside KopTimes
Update	Danilo	Midfield	Aston Villa	Caught offside,  Give me spor,t Sport Bible, HammerNews, COffside (again) Express, HITC Arsenal Station  Caught Offside (a 3rd time)
Update	Memphis Depay	Forward	Barcelona	Sport Bible, TeamTalk  Team Talk (again)
10	Denzel Dumfries.	Right back	Inter Milan	Chelsea News FoLo
Update	Endrick Felipe	Striker	Palmeiras	TBR and again here.  HITC
Update	Cody Gakpo	Striker	PSV	TBR, Express, TBR, again
13	Alejandro Garnacho.	Winger	Man U	TBR, Sport Bible  TBR (again)
14	Ilkay Gundogan	Winger	Man C	FoLo
15	Piero Hincapie	Centre Back	Bayer Leverkusen	Fo Lo
16	N’Golo Kante	Midfield	Chelsea	Football Fancast
NEW	Joakim Maehle	Full back	Atalanta	FoLo
Update	Milinkovic-Savic	Midfield	Lazio	HITC, Caught Offside  The Laziali
NEW	Cesar Montes	Full back	CF Monterrey	Fo Lo
20	Mykhaylo Mudryk	Winger	Shakhtar Donetsk	TBR; FoLo , Newcastle World Mailonline.  Shields Gazette Caught offside Mirror HITC London World FoLo (again) Team Talk
21	Noah Okafor,	Forward	RB Salzburg	FoLo; Sport Witness, Hammers News, HITC Mirror
NEW	Pepe*	Winger	Porto	HITC
NEW	Adrien Rabiot	Midfield	Juventus	FoLo
24	Robert Renan	Defender	Corinthians	Arsenal Station
25	Cristiano Ronaldo	Forward	Man U	Express
26	Milan Skriniar	Centre back	Inter	Football Talk, FoLo, HITC
Update	Marcus Thuram	Goalscoring forward	Borussia Monchengladbach	Caught offside TBR Sportwitness  SportBible. TBR, Give me Sport
28	Youri Tielemans	Midfield	Leicester	FoLo, PG Sport Gooner Talk FoLo (again!)  FoLo (they’re obsessed!)
29	Facundo Torres	Wing	Orlando City	Express
30	Leandro Trossard	Winger	Brighton	Sussex Express
NEW	Zaniolo	Midfield	Roma	Football365,  FoLo

 

*Not the Pepe who is already on our books.

Chart of Shame

Here is a list of just some of the sources cited above.  What we plan to do in the near future is to total the number of reports each one has given and then at the end of the transfer window see which website got the most right, and of course which got the most wrong.  More on the chart in the next posting.

• Arsenal Station:
• Caught Offside:
• Chelsea News:
• Daily Canon:
• Express:
• FoLo (Football London)
• Football 365
• Football Fancast
• Football Talk
• Give me Sport
• Gooner Talk
• Hard Tackle
• Hammer News
• HITC
• Kop Times
• Liverpool Echo
• London World
• Mail Online
• Metro
• Mirror
• Newcastle World
• PG Sport
• Shields Gazette
• Sport Bible
• Sport Witness
• Sunday Express
• Sussex Express
• TBR
• Team Talk
• The Laziali

Exciting isn’t it?