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Arsenal after Spanish youngster by Stefan

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger may be about to make a move for Levante’s young rising star Ruben Garcia. Garcia is aged 19 and has broken into the Levante first team this season and became an important player and has been hailed as one for the future. Spanish media reports claim that Arsenal scouts have been to watch Garcia in every game that he has played this season which should prove that there is serious interest in him.

Ruben Garcia began his career as a young boy at Valencia but was not deemed good enough for them and was released only to be picked up by Levante. In 2011 Valencia wanted him back but the two parties could not agree a deal and Garcia remained with Levante. .......Read the full article here

Another Arsenal target looks set to give Arsene Wenger the slip, leaving the Gunners with a grand total of zero new players so far. The fixture list is out and the clock is ticking, so your average Arsenal fan is starting to feel a build up of tension that could lead to outbreaks of rage and hysteria if someone does not sign for the club soon.

Arsenal fans and Wenger may not be too disappointed at missing out on Clement Grenier from Lyon, and it may only be for a year as he is set to continue his football progression with his current club by signing a one year contract extension, according to L’Equipe. .......Read the full article here

If the rumours are true, then Arsenal have all but agreed the personal terms and transfer fees with Gonzalo Higuain and Real Madrid, so what is the hold up? The Gunners have apparently seen off Juventus, who wanted to pay the Spanish giants something like £2.50 a week for the next 100 years, but there is a hold up.

Real Madrid have no manager, and they are reluctant to complete any transfer business until they have confirmed the replacement for Jose Mourinho. They want Carlo Ancelotti from PSG, and have all but got him, but again there is a hold up. PSG will not let Ancelotti break his contract until they have found a replacement themselves, but they finally seem to have done that, so hopefully everything can go ahead now. .......Read the full article here

The Premier League fixture list is out today and so Arsenal fans can take a look and see what is coming. It has been talked about a lot, but this coming season really is shaping up to be a watershed one, with Arsene Wenger being the only manager still in place out of the top four clubs.

There is a feeling that the Frenchman could go the same way as Ferguson, Mancini and Benitez if there is no significant improvement in the fortunes of Arsenal this season, but there is also quite a lot of optimism from fans and players that we can follow on from our brilliant finish to last season and really challenge for the title. .......Read the full article here

There seems to be a fairly even split between the Arsenal fans about which of the two main transfer targets should be signed by Arsene Wenger this summer. Assuming that Arsene Wenger has not undergone a complete personality change, the Gunners will not be buying both Wayne Rooney and Gonzalo Higuain in this transfer window, but it is looking more likely that one of them will soon be a Gunner.

Nobody really doubts that Rooney is a top class player and would certainly add quality to the Arsenal team, but there is definitely a feeling that his current wages of around £250,000 per week are too much and that he is not worth that much. Ivan Gazidis has already suggested that Arsenal could afford Rooney if we want him, although I doubt that Wenger would want to go above £200,000. .......Read the full article here

It was not long ago that Arsenal fans were expecting the announcement of the first big signing of the summer, and all the smart money was on that signing being Stevan Jovetic, of Fiorentina and the Montenegro national side. We heard from agents who said that terms were agreed, but then Juventus entered the frame, while Gonzalo Higuain and Wayne Rooney emerged as alternative targets and now it seems like the Jovetic transfer has collapsed.

According to the Talksport website, the reason for this is mainly financial. Jovetic is apparently demanding upwards of £120,000 per week, which would smash the current wage structure at the club, and they are not willing to do this, at least not for Jovetic. Rooney would obviously cost a lot more, as he is currently on around £250,000 at Manchester United. .......Read the full article here

There have been a few worrying reports in the media so far this summer, but it seems like we can all relax and breathe a bit easier, after learning that the two players who looked the most likely to leave the club were both going to stay.

With Bacary Sagna, it may only be for one more year, because his current contract with Arsenal is due to expire next summer. There were rumours that the French international right back could be heading back to France to play for PSG or the big spending and newly promoted Monaco. He will be able to leave the Emirates for nothing next year, and get himself a lucrative deal elsewhere, but if Arsenal are as competitive as we hope next season, he could be persuaded to stay. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have been linked with Luis Nani before, and it seems that the Portuguese international winger will be leaving his current club Manchester United this summer. There is interest from other clubs, most notably the Turkish champions Galatasaray, and it is through them that we have learned that United are only looking for a transfer fee of around £8 million, so should Arsenal be trying to bring him to the Emirates?

A lot of Arsenal fans do not seem very keen on Nani, partly because he is a United player, but also because of concerns about his form and whether Arsenal would get much out of him. Talksport have compiled some statistics comparing Nani to the three Arsenal players who he would be competing with for a place in the first team, and they make interesting reading. .......Read the full article here

I know that we always say that no transfer rumour can really be fully believed until Arsenal make an official announcement, I am stopping short of saying that the Gunners have completed the first signing in what we hope to be a busy summer transfer window, but Yaya Sanogo has said himself that he is coming to Arsenal, and he should know.

The 20-year old striker seems to have finally got over the injury problems that threatened to stop his fledgling career before it really got started, but he has been rewarded for his determination, perseverance and some great performances for Auxerre last season, with a fantastic move to the English Premier League with Arsenal, although he also had the option of signing for the Ligue 1 club Lille. .......Read the full article here

Wenger’s Arsenal policy may be obsolete by Stefan

It is well known that Arsenal are a little more conservative in their spending than their European and English rivals. In the past that worked for Arsene Wenger as he managed to build a team full of young stars like Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira but in the past few seasons this style of spending has caused the club to receive a massive amount of criticism and has led the club to be targeting fourth place every season rather than challenging for the title. .......Read the full article here

Koscielny’s impending transfer? by AH

The possibility of Arsenal losing French International Laurent Koscielny didn’t look very likely with the club clearly putting their foot down and stating that they didn’t need to sell this summer, however recent reports continue to link Koscielny with a move away from the Emirates.

According to several media outlets, including the reliable Sky Sports, are now beginning to report that two of Europe’s greatest clubs are upping their interest in 27 year old Koscienly. The two clubs are widely reported as German and European champions Bayern Munich and Liga BBVA winners FC Barcelona, whom are both respectively looking to add to their defensive options with the two clubs losing defenders to injury and retirement this summer, and it seems our star defender is the main target. .......Read the full article here

After years of losing out on transfer targets to clubs who are ready and willing to splash the cash, Arsenal are in very unfamiliar territory. The boot, as they say, is on the other foot, and it is the Italian champions Juventus who are about to get kicked.

It seems bizarre that a club like Juventus, having won the Serie A title for the last two seasons, is scrabbling around for the money to sign good players, but that’s what we have been doing for years. It seems like the financial prudence is finally starting to pay off. .......Read the full article here