However, it has been reported that Gyökeres has not done any pre-season training with Sporting because of a dispute over his transfer, so we may not see him until later in the pre-season events.
For the media, however, this presents a problem since it looks rather like Arsenal being successful in the transfer window this time around, and there is still talk of Christian Mosquera coming to Arsenal from Valencia. It is also said that he has agreed on personal terms. Trossard is said to be going to Saudi Arabia, although the number of players actually making that trip appears to be declining all the time, as awareness of what life is like (especially for any wife or girlfriend who accompanies her partner to that country). And indeed, it is also being reported that the standard of the Saudi league is not what it was made out to be.
So, beyond all that it is likely that the media will start trying to stir up the notion that Ethan Nwaneri will not be sold to Chelsea after all. Myles Lewis-Skelly has also apparently signed a new deal.
Of course, there is always talk around multiple other players – and there seems to be an interesting increase in the policy of clubs not denying certain rumours concerning players they actually have no interest in signing, simply to keep journalists off the scent. Whether clubs are also deliberately trying to mislead other sides by sending them on false trails (as if “if Arsenal are after him then he must be good”) while keeping them away from the club’s main target, we can be sure, but it does seem unlikely that all the false stories of possible transferss were dreamed up by journalists on their own.