The Arsenal Blog

It appears that Arsene Wenger has made his mind up and is determined to sign Gonzalo Higuain for Arsenal. The Frenchman is set to abandon his usual way of eking out every morsel of value in his transfer dealings, by meeting the £25 million valuation put on Higuain by his club Real Madrid.

According to Marca, The Spanish giants are sick of selling low and buying high, so this offer will put us firmly in the driving seat in the race for the Argentinean international. Madrid know that Higuain wants to go and they would probably sell him for less, but that would mean Arsenal haggling and counter haggling with Juventus and we could end up losing him and having to go back for somebody else.  ...........Read more

It looks like Arsenal are lumbered with the grinning fool that is Andre Santos for another season, after the Brazilian club Gremio declined to make his loan move from the Gunners permanent. The 30-year old showed once again how little he understands or cares about the Arsenal fans by moaning about his plight.

“Gremio had an agreement with Arsenal and I had to return.

“I wanted to stay. Gremio were fair regarding everything. I felt well there and I wanted to win a title before leaving.

“Unfortunately there is no deal and I had to return to Arsenal.”  ...........Read more

In light of the lack of talk regarding QPR goalkeeper Julio Cesar and his supposing never ending transfer to the club, it’s come apparent to me for some time now that there is probably very little truth in the reports from a few weeks back that seemed to confirm that genuine negotiations had taken place between representatives from all three parties. I was pretty certain there was some form of truth in this rumour, simply because so many media outlets and sources were confirming the news. As of now it seems like it wasn’t meant to be and so the most recent reports regarding goalkeepers surrounding the potential interest in Simon Mignolet.  ...........Read more

All the transfer action at Arsenal has been one way so far, and that has been out of the exit door. We have already heard this week the the Gunners have accepted offers from five clubs for the Danish international Nicklas Bendtner, who we could actually get a few million pounds for. He could soon be joined on his way out of Arsenal by Gervinho, apparently.  ...........Read more

Freddie Ljungburg is an Arsenal legend who played an important role alongside arguably some of Arsenal’s greatest ever players and won numerous trophies under Arsene Wenger’s reign. Almost 10 years on from our invincible season, the same manager remains but not the same ambitions, club and mentality. The club has admittedly gone into a decline from what we knew as Arsenal’s past glories, but Ljungburg believes the club will regain silverware and its winning mentality next season.  ...........Read more

The stories in the media today about Marouane Fellaini are quite baffling and also extremely frustrating for Arsenal fans. We are desperate for some good quality signings this summer, agreed, but most fans will agree that we shouldn’t go mad and spend silly money, especially on players who might turn out to be not much better than we already have.  ...........Read more

There are stories in the media about Arsenal having made enquiries to Benfica about the Paraguayan international defender Lorenzo Antonio Melgarejo Sanabria. I will call him Melgarejo for the rest of this article, but what concerns me more than the length of his name is that he is the second left back that has been linked with a possible summer transfer to Arsenal in the last week.

We heard about a possible move for Alaba from Bayern Munich and now this 22-year old from Benfica, Surely, with Kieran Gibbs, Nacho Monreal and Thomas Vermaelen as emergency cover, left back is one of our strongest positions. Is there a problem that we don’t know about?  ...........Read more

Get ready to be happy Arsenal fans. Although I will not actually believe it is really true until it is finally all done and dusted, it looks like the Gunners will finally get rid of the blank firing, self publicist that is Nicklas Bendtner.

Maybe the not so great Dane has finally realised that the biggest clubs in the world are not desperate to sign him after all, or maybe he finally feels a bit guilty about trousering over £50,000 a week from Arsenal only to run us down any chance he gets, although I doubt it.  ...........Read more

All of you Arsenal fans out there who have been wanting the club to spend money over the last few years, and not sell off the crown jewels like Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Ashley Cole and Samir Nasri while we were at it, have got it all wrong, according to the Arsenal chief executive.

Ivan Gazidis met with hundreds of Arsenal supporters at the Emirates last night to answer questions about the way the club is run and the plans for the future. Not surprisingly, quite a few of the questions centred on transfer money and trophies. Strangely enough, that seems to be quite important to the fans, so Gazidis assured us that there is plenty of money to spend this summer, although he did qualify that with familiar strains of there being a lack of `top, top` players available.  ...........Read more

There was a pretty big Q & A meeting yesterday – no not that pompous ass – chief exec Ivan Gazidis met with an Arsenal Supporters Trust to discuss the current state of the club and the plans going forward. These sessions – while rarely informative of much apart from continuing the party line – do display an attitude to keep in touch with the fans. It’s something other clubs could learn from – even if it does only serve to humour us. Anyway, while the newly proclaimed ‘Happy One’ was showing off just how happy he is in the most forthcoming of ways (telling everyone he’s definitely happy), Gazidis was busy speaking to fans about our transfer targets this summer, and admitting that the club’s approach in recent years hasn’t been good enough.  ...........Read more