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Should Tomas Rosicky still be at Arsenal? by SS

It is a tough question because during his Arsenal career he has always been injury prone and missed large chunks of the season. Even when he has been fit and playing matches he has sometimes underperformed compared to the rest of the team but then again in some matches he has been the driving force for an important win. .......Read the full article here

Since Bacary Sagna’s statement last week that he is open to PSG, Monaco or any other offer this summer has made it clear that he has not entered into talks with Arsenal over a contract extension, which seems to point to the fact that he will definitely be leaving at the end of the season.

So, as Arsenal are likely to be in the market for a talented right-back, the Mail reports that the Gunners scouts have been looking around for his replacement, and the two top targets are said to be the Polish international Lukasz Piszczek, who is currently playing for Dortmund, and the Feyenoord right-back Daryl Janmaat, who has recently become a regular in the Dutch national team. .......Read the full article here

Navas, Dragovic and Son is not a removal company by the way, it is three different football players who have been linked with a possible summer transfer switch to Arsenal. Arsene Wenger and the club will have a good idea of the players they want to sign this summer, but a lot could still depend on where we finish in the table.

Jesus Navas, the Spanish international winger, has been linked with the Gunners before. He is fast, tricky and provides great service to the attack, which is something we really need. The standard of crossing at the Emirates this season has been appalling and is one of the main reasons, I think, that Olivier Giroud has not scored a lot more goals. .......Read the full article here

Should Arsenal break the bank for Lewandowski? By Twig

Lewandowski is certain to leave Borussia Dortmund this Summer, however his destination is still uncertain. It appears the club at the forefront for his signature is local Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich, but as a story on Yahoo Sports goes today, Dortmund are seriously averse to losing Lewandowski to Bayern after losing Gotze to the same side.

The same story says Dortmund’s preference is for Lewandowski to move to a London club namely Chelsea. As I read the story I wondered to myself, and why not to Arsenal? Yeah, why not? Arsenal has laboured miserably without a “proper” and “good-to-go” striker for much of the season. It’s the lack of a STRIKER and not a right-back or any other position that is the reason why we are presently engaged in a dog-fight with Spurs for fourth place. .......Read the full article here

Well well, it is good to see a little bit of arrogance from your manager now and then, and Arsene Wenger is not all impressed with the possibility of having two German teams in the Champions League final. He doesn’t believe that Arsenal would have been beaten in Germany like Barcelona and Real Madrid were this week.

He is sure that German dominance this season is just a flash in the pan, although he admits that Bayern are quite a promising team! He was simply asked if he thought that this weeks results showed that the Bundesliga is now the most powerful League in Europe and he replied: “You cannot go as far as that,” .......Read the full article here

Mario Gotze was always going to be one of the more difficult to acquire of the Arsenal transfer targets this summer. Now it appears that difficult has become impossible. The German newspaper Bild has reported that an agreement has been reached between Gotze, his current club Borussia Dortmund and the club that have just taken the German Bundesliga title away from them, Bayern Munich.

The 20-year old midfield star, who already has 22 full international caps for Germany, is expected to become o0ne of the world’s outstanding players. He has been an integral part of Dortmund’s great success over the last two seasons, which included a demolition of Bayern in last year’s German cup final. .......Read the full article here

The young Dortmund star Mario Gotze has been the subject of many Arsenal transfer rumours lately, and it has been mentioned that Arsene Wenger was willing to break his transfer record to bring the talented midfielder to the Emirates, but now the player himself seems to have ruled out any possible move to Arsenal either now or in the future.

Gotze’s agent Volker Struth said yesterday: ‘Mario has not even thought about leaving Dortmund in 2013. He is totally not interested in that and will stay at least another season.’ .......Read the full article here

There have been many Arsenal transfer rumours about possible striker arrivals this summer, and it would seem that Borussia Dortmund’s Robert Lewandowski is one of the favourite fantasies for most Gooners, especially as he will be entering the last year of his contract at the end of the season.

It would appear that this is simply Pie-In-The-Sky wishing from us if this story I have found from Suddeutsche.de is to be believed.

Other than Lewandowski, Arsenal have been variously linked with Marco Reus, Sven Bender and Mario Gotze, but according to this report these Dortmund players hold up any printed rumours linking these players with Arsenal to be laughed at on the team bus! .......Read the full article here

If Arsene Wenger holds any serious hope of signing Robert Lewandowski for Arsenal, he had better get his skates on and talk to somebody at the strikers club Borussia Dortmund. The general manager of the Bundesliga team, Michael Zorc, told the Kicker that they would hold on to their star until his contract finished in 2014 if they could not get a transfer sorted out by May.

“We have clearly positioned ourselves,” said Zorc.

“We hear there is interest but until now we have not received any offers.” .......Read the full article here

Marco Reus’ Comments On Arsenal by AH

Sadly Gooners it’s not the German stating his wish to join Arsenal in the summer, it’s just the Borussia Dortmund striker expressing his interest in Arsenal’s players and the quality they show. It’s always good to see players being admired and seen as idols for other players and Marco Reus is clearly fascinated by two of Arsenal’s main creators.

Reus said;
“My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were and he was so quick. Rosicky had great technique and was so intelligent and mature even though he was still young at Dortmund. I copied everything about him – right down to his sweatbands. He was so unlucky he had bad injuries at Arsenal because, otherwise, he would be one of the world’s best players.” .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger may be about to do his bit for the German economy, as it has been reported that he will spend the whole of the Arsenal transfer kitty on three players from the Bundesliga. Robert Lewandowski and Mario Gotze of the current champions Borussia Dortmund and Lars Bender of Bayer Leverkusen are the three players linked with a summer move to the Emirates, but is Wenger really ready to break the habit of a lifetime and pay top dollar? .......Read the full article here

Arsenal were linked with the Polish international striker Robert Lewandowski last summer, but the 24-year old made up his mind to stay with Borussia Dortmund for another season and try to see how well they could do in the Champions League. It wasn’t a bad decision because the German side knocked out Shaktar Donetsk to make it into the quarter-finals.

However well Dortmund do, however, it appears that Lewandowski will be moving on at the end of the season. Most reports about him suggest that he will be heading to Manchester United or Bayern Munich and he may well be, but I think Arsenal should be doing everything in their power to convince the young striker to become a Gunner. .......Read the full article here