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It has been rumoured that Arsenal have been close to signing Mark Schwarzer since the second the transfer window opened, and it has been relentless ever since. The thing is; there has not been one shred of evidence to support it, even though it was once said that he had even been to the Emirates twice for medical examinations!

When Roy Hodgson accepted the job at Liverpool, it only helped to increase the rumours that Schwarzer would leave Fulham, but at last his replacement has been announced, and the incoming Mark Hughes has now made his first proclamation, and that is that Schwarzer is not for sale! Hallelujah! .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have been linked with every available goalkeeper in the world in the last few weeks, but there has been no indication from the club itself…until now.

All the latest rumours have been saying that the Gunners have been trying to get the Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer or West Ham’s Robert Green, and today the Arsenal Chairman Peter Hill-Wood confirmed that they have made an approach to Fulham for the Australian international.

He said in the Daily Star: “We have made an inquiry for him and they are not prepared to sell him so we have gone away. We can only hope they will change their minds, but at the moment it doesn’t look like it.” .......Read the full article here

The Fulham and Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer has denied there has been any contact with Arsenal, and intends to play the last year of his conract at Craven Cottage.

There has been much speculation lately that the 37 year-old would be brought in by Wenger as a stop-gap measure until the young Pole Woljeich Szczesny has matured enough to take over between the sticks, but Schwarzer says that it is all just paper talk.

“I haven’t heard anything other than what’s been said or written in the papers, so it’s purely speculative at the moment,” he said. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have had a rotten run of luck since losing to Barcelona in the Champions League, and needed a good win in the last game of the season to restore their confidence.

Luckily, the Fulham boss Roy Hodgson made wholesale changes ahead of his team’s first ever appearance in a European Fina,l and Arsenal were given a simple game against Fulham’s reserves.

The Gunners made no mistake and were 3-0 up before half-time through Arshavin, Van Persie and Mr. Og, and it could have been four except for a glaring miss by Theo Walcott. .......Read the full article here

Theo Walcott is still hoping that he can do enough against Fulham tomorrow to convince Fabio Capello to take him to South Africa. Competition for Walcott’s wing position has been hotting up lately, with Aaron Lennon, Shaun Wright-Phillips, James Milner and even the young Adam Johnson all stamping claims on being in the starting line-up for England.

Wright-Phillips has fallen out of favour at Man City since Roberto Mancini and Adam Johnson both arrived, but is still hopeful of staying in Capello’s team after some good performances for his country. But it is unlikely he will be returning to the Eastlands next season, whether he goes to South Africa or not. Could he end up competing with Walcott at club level as well as on the international stage? .......Read the full article here

With Arsene Wenger revealing that injuries are taking their toll on his team, the papers are full of Arsenal transfer news this morning.

I have already covered the Phillipe Senderos to Celtic story earlier, but there is another couple of bits of gossip around. The newest name to be bandied around is the young Fulham defender Chris Smalling. The Daily Mirror reports that Wenger has offered £7m for the big talented defender.

He could be the long-term replacement for William Gallas and would add some height to the notoriously small Arsenal team. Whether Fulham will be willing to let him go is another matter! .......Read the full article here

It has been reported today that Arsenal are currently in negotiations for a new goalkeeper.

Arsene Wenger doesn’t seem to know who is the best out of Manuel Almunia, Vito Mannone and Lukasz Fabianski, and the Arsenal fans think that there are question marks over all three of them.

So they are talking to Fulham to see if they will release the 17 year-old James Dunn to the Young Gunners on a permanent basis, after joining on emergency loan this month.

According to the Young Guns website, Dunn has been at Fulham for a year since joing them from Millwall, and has already impressed on a loan period at Southend. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal’s new young goalkeeping hero, Vito Mannone, has revealed today that he came close to going out on loan to a Championship side in pre-season, but once Lukas Fabianski got injured, he was asked to stay as understudy to Almunia.

“In the summer, yes, we had a talk about a loan move,” Vito said. “The boss was quite happy for me to go somewhere and play, because as you can see now, I was ready to play games. .......Read the full article here

Wojciech Szczesny

Szczesny was impressive on Tuesday against West Brom, and pulled off some very good saves. This may have convinced Arsene Wenger that maybe it is about time that he was given his chance in front of Vito Mannone. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted during the last transfer window that he had looked at bringing Fulham defender Brede Hangeland to the Emirates last summer, but he didn’t make a concrete approach to Fulham.

Hangeland and Fulham have still not reached agreement on a new contract, and with the clock ticking, the 28 year-old knows that he could command a bigger wage packet if he moved on a Bosman next summer.

Hangeland’s agent, Rune Hauge, said today: “There was interest in Brede — but nothing concrete, so now is a good time to resume talks with Fulham. .......Read the full article here

Now that Arsenal are halfway to earning another squillion pounds from being in the Champions League proper, i fully expect Arsene Wenger to buy at least one more player, but todays rumours are mostly about who will NOT be joing the Gunners.

The Fulham defender Brede Hangeland fully expects to remain at Craven Cottage next season, which is not surprising really as Roy Hodgson and Asene Wenger have already both said that there have been no discussons between them. He said: “I’m not going to sit here and lie – you do think about these things. I thought about it a lot when I was with the national team, when there was a lot of talk. .......Read the full article here

I have been saying for the last two weeks that there is absolutely no chance that Arsenal will be buying Brede Hangeland from Fulham, but now i’m not so sure. In fact i now think that it is even LIKELY to happen!

Arsene Wenger said that he had looked at Hangeland but had made no contact, then Roy Hodgson announced that he had not spoken to Arsenal, at any time, about a possible move, although the papers suggested that he had put a £15m price tag on his head. .......Read the full article here