By Sir Hardly Anyone
Interesting article in Sport Witness which begins “While Sergej Milinković-Savić has been linked with a move to the Premier League for the past few years, Arsenal have never been pushed forward as his destination.”
Except that during the last month that player has now been mentioned in no less than eight separate articles as being of interest to Arsenal – and three of those articles have all come in… Sport Witness. It is, as they say, a funny ol’ game, this journalism lark.
Here are the new totals and the relevant dates…
- Number of players Arsenal said to be signing: 52
- Most mentioned player: Mykhaylo Mudryk (46 reports)
- Most repeated player by publications: Mykhaylo Mudryk (16 repeats)
- Number of players mentioned for the first time in this summary: 4
- Number of updated accounts: 12
- Window dates: Opens Sunday January 1 2023 and will close 11pm on Tuesday January 31; La Liga and Serie A will not open until Monday January 2.
- Total number of reports reviewed: 259
| Player | Position | Current club | Source | No | Rpt | |
| 1 | Tammy Abraham | Forward | Roma | TBR Caught Offside HITC Hammers News | 4 | |
| 2 | Marco Asensio | Winger | Real Madrid | Daily Canon TBR Caught Offside | 3 | |
| 3 | Ibrahima Bamba | Midfield | Vitoria Guimaraes | TBR Just Arsenal Football Talk TBR (2) | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | Rodrigo Becao | Defender | Udinese | Arsenal Station, Caught Offside TBR (1) And TBR (2) | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | Jude Bellingham | Midfield | Borussia Dortmund | Metro, FoLo, FoLo (2), Team Talk Express FoLo (3) HITC | 7 | 2 |
| Update | Ismael Bennacer | Midfield | AC Milan (ex AFC) | Just Arsenal Mirror HITC Football 365 | 4 | |
| 7 | Moises Caicedo | Midfield | Brighton | FoLo FoLo (2) | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | Fares Chaibi | Winger | Toulouse | TBR, Hard Tackle | 2 | |
| 9 | Samuel Chukwueze | Winger | Villarreal | Liverpool Echo, Caught Offside KopTimes | 3 | |
| Update | Matheus Cunha | Forward | Atletico Madrid | HITC FootballLondon Football Fancast TBR Arsenal Station | 5 | |
| Update | Danilo | Midfield | Aston Villa (he’s Brazillian, hence media excitement) | Caught offside, Give me sport Sport Bible, HammerNews, COffside (2) Express, HITC Arsenal Station Caught Offside (3) HITC (2) Mirror – he’s not signing Football Fancast 90 Min | 13 | 3 |
| 12 | Jonathan David | Striker | Lille | Football London | 1 | |
| 13 | Memphis Depay | Forward | Barcelona | Sport Bible, TeamTalk Team Talk (2) TBR – just £1.7m Express Boot Room Goonertalk TeamTalk (3) Football Talk TBR 2 TeamTalk (4) TBR (3) FoLo HITC Hammers News Mirror HITC (2) | 15 | 6 |
| 14 | Denzel Dumfries. | Right back | Inter Milan | Chelsea News FoLo HITC HITC (again) | 4 | 1 |
| 15 | Endrick Felipe | Striker | Palmeiras | TBR and here (2). HITC | 3 | 1 |
| Update | Joao Felix | Striker | Atletico Madrid | Football London Football London (2) FoLo (3) Into the Caldron Givemesport The Boot Room Sport Bible Mirror Goonertalk TBR (2) Sport Witness Mirror (2) HITC Arsenal Station | 13 | 3 |
| 17 | Ivan Fresneda | Right back | Real Valladolid | Hard Tackle Top Flight FootballFancast | 3 | |
| 18 | Cody Gakpo | Striker | PSV | TBR, Express, TBR (2) HITC HITC (2) TBR (3) HITC (3) TBR (4) FoLo TeamTalk FoLo (2) | 12 | 4 |
| 19 | Alejandro Garnacho. | Winger | Man U | TBR, Sport Bible TBR (2) | 3 | 1 |
| 20 | Ilkay Gundogan | Winger | Man C | FoLo | 1 | |
| 21 | Josko Gvardiol | Fo Lo FoLo (2) | 2 | 1 | ||
| 22 | Piero Hincapie | Centre Back | Bayer Leverkusen | Fo Lo | 1 | |
| 23 | N’Golo Kante | Midfield | Chelsea | Football Fancast Just Football HITC (going to Barca) | 3 | |
| 24 | Mohammed Kudus | Attack | Ajaz | TBR | 1 | |
| NEW | Alexis MacAllister | Midfield | Brighton | Football Fancast | 1 | |
| 26 | Joakim Maehle | Full back | Atalanta | FoLo | 1 | |
| Update | Milinkovic-Savic | Midfield | Lazio | HITC, Caught Offside The Laziali Goonertalk SportWitness Sport Witness (2) Football Fancast SportWitness (3) Team Talk FoLo | 10 | 2 |
| 28 | Cesar Montes | Full back | CF Monterrey | Fo Lo | 1 | |
| NEW | Youssoufa Moukoko | Forward | Borussia Dortmund | Just Arsenal | 1 | |
| Update | Mykhaylo Mudryk | Winger | Shakhtar Donetsk | TBR; FoLo , Newcastle World Mailonline. Shields Gazette Caught Offside, Mirror HITC London World FoLo (2) Team Talk HITC (2) Caught Offside (2) TBR (3) Arsenal Station Football Fancast Hard Tackle HITC (3) Caught Offside (3) Hammers News Metro Mirror (2) TBR (4) Daily Canon Hard Tacikle (2) Daily Canon HITC (4) TBR (5) TBR (6) SportWitness Mail Football Talk TBR (7) Arsenal Station (2) Football Talk Caught Offside (4) Woolwich 1886 Bootroom Standard HITC (5) Telegraph HITC (6) Sport Bible Sky Sport Express Laziali Hard Tackle (3) | 46 | 16 |
| Update | Evan Ndicka | Defender | Eintracht Frankfurt | SheWore London World FoLo He’s signed – 442 Mirror | 5 | |
| NEW | Ruben Neves | Midfield | Wolverhampton | Just Arsenal | 1 | |
| 33 | Noah Okafor | Forward | RB Salzburg | FoLo; Sport Witness, Hammers News, HITC Mirror FoLo (2) | 6 | 1 |
| 34 | Pepe* | Winger | Porto | HITC FoLO | 2 | |
| 35 | Christian Pulisic | Attacking midfield | Chelsea | Teamtalk Express FoLo HITC Goal | 5 | |
| Update | Adrien Rabiot | Midfield | Juventus | FoLo Football Fancast TBR HITC F365 TBR (2) Mail Mirror | 7 | 1 |
| 37 | Goncalo Ramos. | Centre forward / No 10 | Benfica | TBR HITC FoLo | 3 | |
| 38 | Robert Renan | Defender | Corinthians | Arsenal Station | 1 | |
| 39 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Forward | Man U | Express, Football 365 | 2 | |
| 40 | Theo Sander | Goal keeper | AaB (Denmark) | Caught Offside | 1 | |
| NEW | Danilo dos Santos | Midfield | Palmeiras | Caught Offside | 1 | |
| 42 | Leroy Sané | Winger | Bayern | Football Fancast Football London | 2 | |
| 43 | Milan Skriniar | Centre back | Inter | Football Talk, FoLo, HITC | 3 | |
| 44 | Carolos Solar | Midfield | PSG | Daily Canon | 1 | |
| 45 | Djibril Sow | Midfield | Eintracht Frankfurt | Arsenal Station | 1 | |
| 46 | Mehdi Taremi | Forward | Porto | Tasnim News GoonerTalk FoLo | 3 | |
| Update | Marcus Thuram | Goalscoring forward | Borussia Monchengladbach | Caughtoffside,,TBR Sportwitness SportBible. TBR (2), Give me Sport Newcastle World FoLo Sport Bible (2) Football Talk Hard Tackle | 11 | 2 |
| Update | Youri Tielemans | Midfield | Leicester | FoLo, PG Sport Gooner Talk FoLo (2) FoLo (3) He’s joined (Hammers News) He’s joined (Caught offside) Team Talk Caught Offside (he hasn’t joined) Football Fan Cast Football 365. Hammers News (deal done) HITC TeamTalk | 14 | 3 |
| 49 | Facundo Torres | Wing | Orlando City | Express, Caught Offside Mirror | 3 | |
| 50 | Leandro Trossard | Winger | Brighton | Sussex Express | 1 | |
| Update | Dusan Vlahovic | Striker | Juventus | JuveFC.com; 442 Football Fancast, TBR Football Fancast (2) HITC Man U News | 7 | ` |
| Update | Zaniolo | Midfield | Roma | Football365, FoLo Caughtoffside FoLo (2) Mirror | 5 | 1 |
Sir Hardly
I’d check those dates: “Window dates: Opens Sunday January 1 2023 and will close 11pm on Tuesday January 31”
Sorry mis read. Apologies Sir!
Why I’m here. Is this a record for the winter window? Even for us this seems extraordinarily high.
On a side note, Andy Madley is in charge of Manchester City vs Everton on New Year’s Eve, but guess who has been appointed to referee Arsenal vs Newcastle on 3rd January? Andy Madley…