Lee Hurley Archives: 07/2016

Arsenal are apparently preparing a bid of £15m for former Manchester United centre back, Jonny Evans.

A website in Italy is claiming that Arsenal and Inter Milan have agreed a fee of €60m plus €8m in bonuses for their captain, Mauro Icardi.

Arsene Wenger has admitted he was wrong when he once predicted that transfer fees would not go as high as £100m and now says they will eventually break past £200m and £300m.

Arsene Wenger has hailed former Arsenal man, Carlos Vela, as one of the best strikers in Europe despite his appalling minute-per-goal ratio.

Arsenal have allegedly offered up to €40m (€30m + €10m bonuses) for Shkodran Mustafi who has reportedly got married in ‘secret’.

Over the past few days and old, familiar link, has started to surface – that of Julian Draxler to Arsenal.

The internet went mental on Thursday afternoon when an Algerian website started claiming that Arsenal had a £37.5m deal agree with Leicester for Riyad Mahrez.

Arsenal are apparently weighing up a move for Mario Mandzukic as the media run out of strikers they’ve heard of to link with the club.

Arsenal are said to be well in the mix for Torino’s Bruno Peres.

It was relatively quiet in the land of Arsenal on Thursday but we still managed to find a few little tidbits which are almost actual news.

Arsenal have agreed a deal with FC Dordrecht that will see midfielder, Glen Kamara, spend the season there on loan according to a report from the country.

French site, Sud-Ouest, are reporting that Mathieu Debuchy’s move to Bordeaux is off after the club admitted they could not afford him.

Marcelo Allende, a Chilean u17 international, has joined Arsenal on trial until September.

Arsenal have signed a deal with Atlanta-based Fermata Partners LLC to help expand their retail operations in North America.

Arsenal have reportedly sent some people to do something in regards to 19-year-old Goncalo Guedes.

Arsenal have allegedly tabled a £20m for Mamadou Sakho according to the Sun.

Theo Walcott has said that the MLS is close to Premier League standard as he tries to lead the Arsenal charm offensive in America by saying things we all think isn’t true.

With real football closing in on us and just an interlull away, the nonsense that is the transfer window is hard to pay attention to. Here’s what’s been happening in the last 24 hours.

Part of what we do here at Daily Cannon is keep an eye on how transfer rumours develop across the globe so we can try and work out which ones are likely to have some substance to them and which ones don’t.

As Ivan Gazidis reiterates that Arsenal can’t compete with the big boys on the world transfer stage, I ask is he lying when he says that or was he lying when he said we would soon be able to?