Arsenal Gossip Archives: 08/2016

Friday was mainly about the gossip, despite our Premier League match with Leicester just around the corner.

West Brom manager, Tony Pulis, has spoken about those rumours linking one of his ‘best players’, Jonny Evans, to Arsenal and admitted that if we do come in with an offer, sometimes that’s just football.

Fenerbahce centre-back and supposed Arsenal target, Simon Kjaer, has reportedly picked up an injury.

Our buddy Emanuele Giulianelli is back and this time he’s claiming that Arsenal are set to sign Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia today (Friday) with his medical due to take place on Monday.

Arsenal have reportedly been quoted between €55-57m for Atletico Madrid centre-back, José Giménez.

The internet is claiming Riyad Mahrez rejected Arsenal, but they didn’t even give him the chance to

Championship club Brentford are reportedly interested in bringing Chris Willock in on a season-long loan.

As the rumour mill spins into overdrive regarding Shkodran Mustafi rumours, the media is busy dreaming up other players they could link us to should this deal fall through. The latest is Switzerland international, Fabian Schär.

Shkodran Mustafi’s father has apparently got involved again, reportedly informing Goal.com that we’ll know where the centre-back is going soon and that more than one Premier League club wants him.

The transfer ‘saga’ of Lyon striker, Alexandre Lacazette, to Arsenal has quickly become one of the most tedious stories of all time and that doesn’t appear to be changing soon.

According to reports, Real Madrid are willing to offer James Rodriguez to Arsenal for a minuscule £65m, except someone needs to tell Zinedine Zidane because he doesn’t seem to have a clue.

The Sun are claiming that Arsenal are set to have a bid of £16m for West Brom centre-back rejected.

According to France Football, Arsenal have set their sights on yet another centre-back just in case our supposed deal with Valencia’s Shkodran Mustafi doesn’t go through.

A report in Spain is claiming that Wolfsburg could actually be open to selling Julian Draxler after all if they land Simone Zaza in addition to Mario Gomez.

Another Arsenal transfer saga has ended as Riyad Mahrez signed a new deal to stay at Leicester until 2020, confirming what we said all along – he’d be going nowhere.

Arsenal have allegedly been told that it will take €15m to land Simon Kjaer from Fenerbahce as they continue to be linked with back up options in case the Shkodran Mustafi deal goes south, but that seems unlikely as we explain.

After a few relatively quiet days on the Shkodran Mustafi front it all got a little more frenetic on Wednesday as new developments were being reported, although the truth of them is still to be determined.

James Olley is reporting that a source close to the Alisher Usmanov camp has denied that there s any truth to the rumour that the Arsenal majority shareholder is looking to sell his shares so he can join his chum at Everton.

Arsenal are allegedly in talks to sign José Giménez from Atletico Madrid although it seems like a futile approach if true.

Arsenal are apparently willing to pay €9m for Southampton’s Jose Fonte, and with Manchester United’s Marcus Rojo not leaving the club, some media outlets believe Arsenal have a clear run at the player.