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With the news yesterday that Arsene Wenger seems to have accepted Fulham’s refusal to sell Mark Schwarzer, todays biggest Arsenal transfer rumour is that he has now turned his attention to the Ajax and Holland goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
Stekelenburg had an excellent World Cup, and the Ajax Financial Director Jeroen Slop admitted last week that the [...]

Arsene Wenger’s press conference yesterday was very revealing in many ways, and no less on the transfer front. He admitted a couple of times that he was looking for reinforcements, but also said that he wasn’t close to signing anyone at all!
With just ten days to go it is becoming “squeaky bum time” in the [...]

Arsene Wenger had a long press conference today and, although looking quite tired and drawn, he managed to field all the searching questions quite well. He was obviously asked about the rumours surrounding his interest in Sebastien Squillaci, and said that although Arsenal were interested, they were nowhere near securing his signature.
“There is not a [...]

It looks like Arsene Wenger is going to take the opportunity of a (hopefully!) easy game against Blackpool, to give his returning World Cup Finalists an extra rest while they try and catch up with the fitness of the rest of the Arsenal squad.
Both Fabregas and Van Persie only rejoined the squad two weeks ago, [...]

Arsene Wenger suddenly starting making his moves in the transfer market on Wednesday with bids for Sebastien Squillaci from Sevilla, and a new bid for Mark Schwarzer from Fulham.
According to this mornings Telegraph, the bid for Schwarzer was exactly the same as they bid in May, and were hoping that Fulham would accept the offer [...]

Arsenal have only played one game so far this season, but already I am thinking about conceding the League title. Usually we can be confident of having a great team with yet some more classy youngsters coming through and can look forward with hope in our hearts, but todays news about Emmanuel Frimpong has just [...]

It seems that the young Arsenal defender Armand Traore is very close to finalising his move to the Portugese giants Benfica, according to his agent Richard des Voeux.
He is said to be signing a four year contract with Benfica, and the 20 year-old is very keen to finally be getting regular first team football in [...]

The biggest Arsenal transfer rumour today was that Arsene Wenger was in touch with Sevilla to persuade them to part with the French international centre-back, Sebastien Squillaci.
Well today Sevilla have confirmed the rumours, and also agreed that Squillaci missed the Champions League Qualifier just in case the deal went through. BUT, as seems to [...]

The ongoing Arsenal search for a new keeper has taken a couple of new twists this morning, and it looks like Wenger still has a choice of two. The Man City keeper Shay Given may have been offered a pay rise to stay at the Eastlands, but it is being reported today that he is [...]

Just twelve days to go and the Arsenal transfer rumours are coming in thick and fast. The devastating news that Arsenal’s injury list has grown already with Samir Nasris operation means that there are a few more midfielders on the possible arrival list, but naturally the most important topic is another centre-back.
According to Young Guns, [...]