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The Emirates cup will be back at Arsenal this summer after missing last year because of the London Olympics. It will be played at the start of August and, along with Arsenal, will feature Napoli from Serie A, FC Porto of the Primeira Liga in Portugal and Galatasaray from the Super Liga in Turkey.

These are all good teams and will provide a useful test for the Gunners. It should be a great couple of days for the fans and will help to get the players match fit for the coming season. It is a season which the Gunners are under severe pressure to mark with a trophy. .......Read the full article here

There was a rumour that spread like wildfire during January that Arsenal had made an offer of £30 million for a player. A large proportion of the speculation was that the player in question was the 25-year old Uruguayan international Edinson Cavani. The Napoli star has told the media that he knows absolutely nothing about it, however, and so I wonder who the player in question was, or if there even was such an offer made.

Cavani is on fire this season in Serie A, scoring 27 goals already from 26 games. Napoli have stated that they would not accept any offers below his release clause of £54 million, but Arsenal could have been testing the waters if they had bid, but Cavani suggests that it never happened and indicated that Spain would be his most likely next port of call. .......Read the full article here

We may never find out if Arsenal made an offer of £30 million to the Serie A club, Napoli, for the transfer of their Uruguayan hit man Edinson Cavani, but if we did they have turned us down. it is not surprising realyy, and was only ever going to be an opening bid. Cavani is one of the most sought after strikers in world football and has a contract with Napoli until 2016, so it would take more than £30 million to persuade them to sell. .......Read the full article here

Has Wenger bid £30 million on Mario Gotze? by KJ

Yesterday, the ever-reliable @GeoffArsenal exclusively revealed that Arsenal have placed a bid of £30 million on a mystery player that is not being revealed. The most likely reason is that it could jeopardise any deal if the media find out. Many have said that this “mystery player” is in fact Napoli striker, Edinson Cavani… However, I have a different theory. .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger is leaving it a bit late to get his transfer business done and bring in some new players that Arsenal need. He must have some players in mind, however, after promising that the club was going to spend some money, and a substantial amount at that.

Wenger was explaining the club’s situation on Al-Jazeera TV, and he said that Arsenal were now over the situation we have been in for years due to the financing of the Emirates stadium, which will be music to the ears of Gooners everywhere.

“My plan is to keep all the players we have and then to add, maybe if possible, two new players to the squad, we will spend big. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal are definitely in the market for a new striker this January, and Arsene Wenger is known to like a bargain, but the Chilean international, Eduardo Vargas, will hardly set Arsenal fan’s pulses racing if he is the man who comes to the Emirates to boost our goal threat. THe 23-year old has not had the impact expected since he signed for Napoli a year ago. The Serie A side have offered to loan him to the Gunners in an attempt to get his form and career back on track, but do we really want that sort of player? .......Read the full article here

Reports last week that Arsene Wenger was ready to smash the Arsenal transfer record to bring the Uruguayan super striker from Napoli to the Emirates may have been true, but even if they were, it looks like Wenger will have to find somebody else to splurge his money on.

25-year old Cavani smashed 33 goals for the Italian club in each of the last wos seasons, and he has got 14 already this season. He could have expected to make the shortlist of 23 players selected for the Ballon D’Or, but even if the fact that Napoli is not seen as a big club affected the voting, Cavani has no wish to move on. .......Read the full article here

If Arsene Wenger is successful in making the 25-year old Edinson Cavani an Arsenal player in January, he will have smashed the record transfer fee by some considerable margin. The transfer of Santi Cazorla from Malaga this summer is thought to have cost slightly more than the £16 million that we paid for Andrey Arshavin, but Cavani is likely to set the Gunners back around £30 million.

We know that Wenger has at least that much money available to him, but it would be a major change of policy to spend so much on one player. Has he finally started to listen to the disgruntled Arsenal fans? Has he finally succumbed to the pressure of the big spenders like Chelsea and Manchester City? According to the Daily Mail, he has. .......Read the full article here

The swiss international defender Johan Djourou spends more time playing for his country than he does for Arsenal, and his international manager told him in the summer that his place could be in jeopardy if he doesn’t start playing regularly for his club and if Arsenal won’t play him then he should move to another team to get more game time. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have two of the top three keepers in the squad out of action due to injury, so reports last week that Vito Mannone was looking for a return to Italy were about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit. The 24-year old Italian keeper has reassured Gooners that he has no intention of leaving the Emirates anytime in the foreseeable future.

“I want to make it clear, because there have been unfounded rumours, that my contract is not ending in 12 months.

“I’ve got a few more years and I’m happy to be at Arsenal right now. I’m looking at the present and the future is not in doubt. .......Read the full article here

The news that one of Arsenal’s defenders could be the subject of a transfer to Serie A in Italy could be better and it could be worse. It is not Koscielny, Mertesacker or Vermaelen, so that is a great relief. On the other hand, it is not Sebastien `the Squid` Squillachi so that’s very disappointing.

The man in question is Johan Djourou, who was promised first team action this season by Arsene Wenger, has only made one appearance in a game against Coventry in the Capital One cup. That might be a little less than the Swiss international was hoping for. .......Read the full article here

Do Arsenal need Djourou? by TS

Johan Djourou, the most under or over rated player in the Arsenal squad-depending on who you ask, of course,- reportedly still has a part to play at Arsenal despite being linked with a move away from the club in the summer.

Napoli were interested in the player and were reportedly offering £10m for the Swiss international. Not sure how true that is considering £10m is pretty good business for a fourth choice central defender. Djourou has been chased by a number of Italian clubs before, but that was a few years ago when he was playing more regularly. .......Read the full article here