Just Arsenal News

I know the transfer window is still a few months away, but there seems to be a few snippets of Arsenal transfer news around, so I thought it was worth a post.

Obviously you can’t discuss discuss transfer rumours without bringing up Marouane Chamakh, and it seems that it not such a done and dusted deal as everyone thought it was. The latest news is still that talks are going well, but there is nothing signed yet. Perhaps Chamakh is using the extra £10,000 offered by Liverpool as a little leverage to up Arsenal’s offer? Read the full article here

After last nights revelations from the Mirror that the Bordeaux strker Marouane Chamakh had agreed a £50,000 a week contract with Arsenal, another article, this time from The Sun, confirms that a deal has been reached and Chamakh has signed on the dotted line.

The article says: MAROUANE CHAMAKH will be an Arsenal player this summer after saying yes to a four-year, £10.4million deal.

The free agent Bordeaux ace has snubbed a BIGGER offer from Liverpool and put pen to paper on a Gunners pre-contract agreement.

There figures agree completely with the Mirror’s figure of £50,000 a week, but they even go further, and report that Rafael Benitez offered the Morrocan striker an extra £10,000 a week, but Chamakh turned them down in favour of Arsenal anyway! Read the full article here

It has just been reported in the Mirror that the Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh has agreed to join Arsenal on a wage of £50,000 a week.

This is what the actual report says under the headline:
Bordeaux president confirms Chamakh’s Arsenal move

Arsenal have tied up a deal for Bordeaux’s Marouane Chamakh after the Moroccan striker agreed a pre-contract and will join this summer on a five-year contract worth £50,000-a-week.

Arsenal seal £50,000-a-week Marouane Chamakh deal

That would sound pretty cut and dried, and you would think they had actual confirmation from the Bordeaux president. But this is the quote that has prompted the headline. Read the full article here

The seemingly never-ending saga of Marouane Chamakh’s move from Bordeaux to Arsenal is now looking more and more certain. Chamakh admitted last week that if he had the choice on where to move in the summer, he would choose the Emirates, and it seems that Wenger has now confirmed that he still likes the Morroccan striker, but fell short of admitting it was a done deal.

When asked on French television about Chamakh’s desire to join Arsenal, Wenger said: “In life you have should achieve your dreams, above all you should try for them,” Read the full article here

Even with the big game against Man utd coming up tomorrow, the papers are still full of Arsenal transfer news. Almost everyone has reported that Jack Wilshere has chosen Bolton as his destination for the rest of the season so there is no point going into that here. Except to say Good Luck Jack!

A few papers have also said that Arsenal have still not given up on Marouane Chamakh from Bordeaux, but they say that Wenger is trying to negotiate a pre-contract agreement for next season. Considering that Van Persie will be back in the squad next season, I would personally have thought it unlikely, unless of course he is considering selling Eduardo in the summer? Read the full article here

The transfer gossip regarding Arsenal doesn’t seem to be letting up, despite Arsene Wenger admitting that he hardly has time to consider new arrivals with the amount of games coming in thick and fast, but that hasn’t stopped the speculation in the papers.

The big story yesterday was that Arsenal had made a £7m bid for the Fulham defender Chris Smalling, but like the endless rumours regarding Brede Hangeland in the summer, they appear to be totally without foundation. Read the full article here

Ther is lots of Arsenal transfer news about today, and the one that has shocked Arsenal fans the most (from looking at the blogs) is the news that Sol Cambell has been signed on a temporary contract until the end of the season. I have seen various figures relating to his paypacket, but it seems like he will be earning between £20,000 and £50,000 a week, which is not bad for a 30+ defender!

This signing would seem to signal the end of Phillipe Senderos’ career at the Emirates, and he was seen begging for a move on Sky Sports. We can expect news on that one very shortly I expect. Read the full article here

The transfer window is upon us again, but all the Arsenal transfer news in the papers seem to be concentrating on which players are NOT coming to the Emirates!

I personally thought that Andre-Pierre Gignac was the most likely striker to be moving to Arsenal, but the Mail is telling me that Arsene Wenger doesn’t think the Frenchman is “up to Arsenal’s high standards”, and have written off his chances.

Wenger himself has been quoted as denying that the Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from AC Milan is being considered this time around. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger seems to becoming short of patience with the fans that keep clamouring for him to spend millions on expensive players just because Arsenal have lost a few games.

Arsenal have been linked with many good players, but with Wenger’s philosophy of not buying unless the player is young and cheap, he has come out and dashed the fans hopes that these rumours might be true.

He started with: “Let’s not dream too much. To find players who are world-class, have not played in the Champions League and are available, I wish you good luck. I’ll be on the market but that doesn’t mean I’ll buy.” Read the full article here

Today I am featuring a guest post from the excellent Arsenal Blog Gunners Today. Here it is:

Forget Chamakh, doesn’t Carlton Cole seem a better option?

This is only suggested as an idea and I want to know what Gooners make of Carlton Cole. In my own match preview of the game vs the Hammers game, I identified Cole as a serious threat, one that needed to be taken seriously. Note, I didn’t think of him as a January target. I have to thank ex-Gooner Alan Smith for that. Read the full article here