july 21st
Back on July 3rd Arseblog told you that Hatem Trabelsi was 99% sure to be an Arsenal player next season. Yesterday those two bastions of truth and righteousness, The Daily Mail and Arsenal Mania, both reported that we’d signed the player for £4m. Naturally we’ll wait for official confirmation, but he’ll be a fine addition to the squad.
There were also some strong rumours about a young Marseille midfielder called Mathieu Flamini, and that two medicals took place yesterday for Arsenal football club, but I haven’t been able to verify that with anyone.
The latest update on the Paddy situation is that the club are doing their best to convince him to stay, and today’s Sun is reporting that Madrid are only willing to offer Arsenal £24m for Vieira, which may see them scupper the deal all for themselves. However, there are reports that Madrid have sent an intermediary to make contact with Vieira to see if he really wants to make the move and that they’ve been in contact with David Dein over the whole thing. But with the lads, and the manager, set to fly off to Austria tomorrow for the now traditional summer training camp things are either going to come to a head very quickly, or we’re going to to have another few days of uncertainty and worry about what’s going to happen.
In other transfer news Martin Keown has joined Leicester City, Sevilla want to sign Edu and Francis Jeffers could make a move to Charlton this week.
That’s about all there is at the moment. More if and when it happens.
