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We don’t know for sure that Arsenal are definitely looking to sign another keeper this summer, but it seems fairly likely, with the problems there have been with Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski over the last few years. I really hope that Arsene Wenger has got a clear idea of who he wants to bring in, even if it is between a few keepers, because according to the media he has about 39 different possibilities.

Sometimes I think that the football journalists just go through every team in every league and see if they can make something up. Pepe Reina, Michel Vorm, Julio Cesar, Simon Mignolet and Asmir Begovic are just the keepers fr4om the Premier League that have been linked with Arsenal and i may have missed a couple. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal transfer target, Portuguese goalkeeper Rui Patricio, has admitted that he may be leaving his beloved Sporting Lisbon this summer. In an interview with the Portuguese press he said “I feel good here, but we must consider many things. I still do not know what the future holds for me”.

The keeper was the subject of an £8 Million bid just last week from Arsenal which was immediately rejected by Sporting. Arsenal have been searching for a new goalkeeper for many weeks now and Patricio was a surprise choice until a bid was actually made for him. The frontrunners were thought to be Barcelona’s Victor Valdes and QPR’s Julio Cesar. .......Read the full article here

The latest rumour in the Arsenal goalkeeper situation by SS

There is an Arsenal transfer rumour going around that Arsene Wenger could be ready to make a surprise bid for Reading’s Alex McCarthy who has earned his first ever call up to the England squad this week. McCarthy would not become the top goalkeeper at the club but would instead be used as emergency cover and loaned out to other clubs with a recall option, similar to the arrangement Fulham have with David Stockdale.

Wenger is expecting Lukasz Fabianski and Vito Mannone to leave the club this summer and he has even been looking for somebody to possibly replace the current keeper Wojciech Szczesny, according to media speculation. .......Read the full article here

A lot of Arsenal fans have been buoyed by the recent performances of Wojciech Szczesny in the Gunners goal and convinced that Arsene Wenger no longer has to sign a new keeper in the summer transfer market. The Polish international is still only 23-years old and is showing again the talent and potential that made us believe we had a world class player on our hands.

The thing is though, and Wenger has realised this, that Szczesny needs the competition. The manager previously tried to encourage Szczesny by telling him that he was the number one and the young keeper got complacent, maybe even arrogant. He has reacted well to being dropped in favour of Fabianski, but he clearly needs strong competition to bring the best out of him. .......Read the full article here

All of the Arsenal fans love Wojciech Szczesny and most of us think he has the abilty and potential to be one of the best keepers in the world. Up until a few weeks ago, though, his future at Arsenal looked uncertain after his form tailed off dramatically in a season to forget for the Polish international.

It looked like Arsene Wenger would have to spend at least £10 million of his summer transfer budget on a new number one and there was speculation that Szczesny would leave the club after seven years. Since then, though, he has done everything right, starting with completely distancing himself from his father’s comments about Arsenal and the French manager. .......Read the full article here

QPR v Arsenal preview by SS

Arsenal today play fellow London club Queen’s Park Rangers in what will be yet again another vital game for the Gunners. Arsenal are continuing in their push for top 4 and need to gain all 9 remaining points up for grabs in the next three games. Our opponents today QPR no longer have anything to play for. They were relegated last week, when they played fellow relegated side Reading FC in a 0-0 draw which sent both clubs down. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal will be trying their best to give Julio Cesar a thoroughly miserable time today. The 33-year old Brazilian keeper has been one of the rare plus points for the relegated team this season, often keeping them in matches with great reflex saves and his command of his penalty area.

Harry Redknapp is well aware that Premier League teams will be looking at some of his better players and knows that some of them will not be keen on trying to fight their way out of the championship. Although 33 is not particulary old for a keeper, Cesar may not want to waste a season in the lower tier, especially if he has a chance to join a big club. .......Read the full article here

Is there any keeper who hasn’t yet been linked with Arsenal? by FD

It must be dispiriting if you’re a current professional goalkeeper and your name hasn’t been linked with a summer move to the Emirates. But you shouldn’t get too down. It’s still only May.

Today’s news that Swansea’s Michel Vorm is a possible Arsenal target means we could almost field a team of keepers from the names of contenders for that Number 1 jersey.

Before Vorm, we’ve had speculation linking us with Asmir Begovic, Victor Valdes, Julio Cesar, Iker Casillas, Rene Adler, Simon Mignolet, Federico Marchetti, Pepe Reina and even Petr Cech! .......Read the full article here

As the end of the season draws ever closer, the newspapers are gearing up for the summer transfer window and Arsenal, as usual, will be involved with an amazingly high proportion of them. The rumours about the goalkeeping situation alone should be enough to fill the back pages of your average tabloid and there have been three stories involving the Gunners in the last couple of days.

We don’t really know what the situation concerning the current three keepers at the Emirates will be until the season finishes, but for the sake of these stories we will assume that Arsene Wenger is looking to sign one quality keeper, whether as back up or replacement for Szczesny, Fabianski or Mannone. .......Read the full article here

I just can’t help doing a roundup of the Arsenal transfer rumours in today’s papers as it is my duty to tell everyone what is being discussed Arsenal-wise.

To start with, the Express today says that Arsenal are considering an offer for the Schalke 04 £15million-rated teenager Julian Draxler. The highly-talented 19 year-old already has four caps for Germany and is tipped to be a future star for club and country. The surprising thing about this report is they say: Schalke will allow their influential midfielder to leave in the summer for the right price – and that would be around £15m. Why would they be willing to sell one of their hottest young prospects? .......Read the full article here

The amount of Arsenal rumours concerning goalkeepers, coupled with Wojciech Szczesny’s demotion to the reserves, seems to confirm that the Gunners are definitely looking for a new shotstopper this summer.

Most of these rumours seem to point to either Stoke’s Asmir Begovic, Sunderland’s Simon Mignolet or QPR’s Julio Cesar. There has also been many mentions of the Real Madrid veteran Iker Casillas, but as he has no experience of playing in the Premier League I am more likely to believe that Wenger would prefer one of the other three.

I have already outlined why I think that Begovic looks the most likely arrival but if Stoke really are demanding £15m then that may cause Wenger to look elsewhere despite him having an excellent record in the Premier League. .......Read the full article here

There were many Arsenal rumours over the summer regarding possible backups to the Gunners Number One Wojciech Szczesny, but with both Lukas Fabianski and Vito Mannone both remaining at the club (not to mention Damien Martinez) it seemed unlikely that Arsene Wenger would be seriously looking at experienced shot-stoppers.

But now it has been revealed that the Brazilian international keeper Julio Cesar was close to a move to the Emirates before he got snapped up by Arsenal’s big-spending neighbours QPR. Cesar said: “I accepted this proposal because I wanted to live in London.

“I have an amazing way of life here and I’m giving my family a great opportunity to grow up culturally. .......Read the full article here