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With pre-season fixtures looming, Arsenal wasted little time securing their fourth summer signing in Chelsea forward Noni Madueke. But who is the England international, what will he bring to the side and why is he costing (up to) £52 million? Phil Costa reports. — It’s an old adage that familiarity breeds contempt, and for many […]

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Harry Symeou from Chronicles of a Gooner to discuss all the latest transfer news, starting with the lack of transfer news – in particular no developments on the Viktor Gyokeres deal. We then discuss the way Arsenal have […]

Welcome to Friday. Given that the team leave for Singapore tomorrow, I had half-expected an announcement or two this week. Spanish press have reported that Cristhian Mosquera has completed his deal and is expected to be revealed officially as an Arsenal player ‘by the end of the week’, while Noni Madueke’s move from Chelsea is […]

Last week, I recorded a Patreon podcast for Arsenal Vision on the Double winning season of 1970-71. One of the great successes of Bertie Mee and his coaching staff was the successful reshuffling of players from their original positions in service of the overall unit. Frank McLintock was a central midfielder moved to centre-half since […]

Morning. For a bit of variety, let’s start with some news of players going out, rather than coming in, and the BBC report that Reiss Nelson could return to Fulham on loan, having spent last season on loan there too. Ideally, I’d prefer to sell him, I think it’s been clear for some time he’s […]

Morning. There don’t seem to have been any updates on Viktor Gyokeres, Sporting and add-ons overnight. I don’t know if they’ve added on more add-ons, or if it’s the same add-ons they’re negotiating, but I know this: Mikel Arteta desperately wants to add the Swedish international onto the plane for Singapore this weekend, so I’d […]

Morning. I see some rumours from the Portuguese press that Viktor Gyokeres’ move to Arsenal is at risk because of some issue with how the add-ons are structured. Apparently Sporting want the €10m to be ‘easily achievable’, and we’re supposedly resistant to that. Last night Fabrizio Romano posted that the two clubs are still in […]

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode the transfers are coming thick and fast, and we discuss the imminent arrival of Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting, and whether the arrival of a long-awaited striker will ease some of the anxiety that has permeated the window so […]

Morning. Starting a brand new week with good news is nice, so let’s do that. Late yesterday, news started to emerge that Arsenal and Sporting had come to an arrangement for the transfer of Viktor Gyokeres. We’ll pay a fee of €63.5m + €10m in add-ons, and reportedly the player’s agent waived their commission so […]

Morning. A very quick Sunday round-up. Let’s start with the Sporting president, Frederico Varandas, releasing a statement yesterday about Viktor Gyokeres, who has refused to return to training for the club he has a contract with, seemingly to force a move to Arsenal. He said: “If they don’t want to pay fair market value for […]