By Illget Myman
The media seems as full as ever with names of players (many we must admit we have never heard of) who are at any moment going to come to Arsenal. In fact, what we have done today is pick out the first 20 we’ve found – but there are many more, and we’ll be bringing them into the list in the coming weeks of the window.
Now, in recent years, when we have run this series, we have eventually gained around 120 players’ names on the list, with around three per cent of the players actually coming to Arsenal.
But what is particularly interesting is that it does seem that quite a few clubs who are thinking of selling a player, put out totally invented stories of other players being bid for, in order to act as a cover for the real story – the transfer of a different player to, in our case, Arsenal.
The point of this is to smooth the way for the transfer to go through, to have the pesky journalists all looking the wrong way while allowing Arsenal and the selling club to get on with the deal-making.
Of course, such a scenario is rejected by others, but it is hard to find any other explanation as to how getting on for 97% of transfer rumours turn out to be untrue. How could websites and newspapers get everything so wrong so often?
Obviously, we don’t know because we are on the outside looking in, but what we can say is that when a player appears on the list of players that Arsenal are trying to sell, that usually means the opposite is true: that player is just a cover story for someone quite different, quite often from an utterly different club that Arsenal have made an enquiry about.
But these websites and newspapers do like to run the story, and it is quite good fun watching the nominated transfers fall by the way side, and of course at the end of the window we will tot up just how many correct transfers have been foretold. The record in past seasons is 3%.
Transfers so far predicted…
**Player**
**Position**
**From**
**Source**
**Amount**
Update
Julian Alvarez
Centre forward
Atletico Madrid
Football Fan Cast; Sky, Sport Witness, Caught Offside says Gyokeres in part ex
£150m+ AFC preferred bidder
Update
Andria Bartishvili
Attacking midfield
Kolkheti Poti
Gooner News
Not known
Update
Bradley Barcola
Winger
PSG
Sky Sports, Caught Offside, Football London, Arsenal news, Sports View, Give me Sport. Deal approved, but he wants PSG (Goonernews) £69m quoted
£45m+
4
Andria Bartishvili
Attacking midfield
Iberia 1999
Daily Canon, FFC “in talks”
Not quoted
5
Phoenix Blayney.
Goal keeper
Larne
Standard
Free?
Update
Ayyoub Bouaddi
18 yr old midfield
LOSC Little
Hard Tackle: he wants to go to PSG, Sports Keeda says Vieira really likes him.
£60m+
7
Alvaro Carreras
Left Back
Real Madrid
Hard Tackle, FFC
Only just signed
8
Ivan Fresneda
Defender
Real Valladolid,
Just Arsenal, Arsenal Station
No price specified
NEW
Antony Gordon
Winger
Newcastle
Currently on a long term contact
Arsenal monitoring
NEW
Morgan Greenwood
Forward
Marseille
Totts want him.
Footballpresse
11
Manu Kone
Midfield
Roma
Sun – Agreed deal
£43.2m
NEW
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
Winger
PSG
Sky Sports – PSG don’t want to sell
£100m
13
Maxence Lacroix
Defender
Crystal Palace
Just Arsenal News
NEW
Jeremy Monga
Leicester
Leicester
FFC – talks ongoing
Arsenal determined
Update
Morgan Rogers
Attacking mddfield
Aston Villa
Mirror; Sky, FFC. FoLo Villa lowered price (Standard). Rice [telling him](https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/21/declan-rice-urging-85m-midfielder-complete-arsenal-transfer-28860574/) to sign. Rice trying to persuade him.
£100m, but price now discounted
NEW
Igor Thiago
Striker
Brentford
Football Pressed, EPL Index, club considering…
A priority
Update
Sandro Tonai
Midfield
Newcastle
FFC. ICFootball, £100m bid. Or £80m.
Totts interested
18
Nicolo Tresoldi
Striker
Club Brugge
Arsenal News
He’s honoured
19
Christos Tzolis
Winger
Club Brugge
Football 365
20
Kenan Yildez
Forward
Juventus
Gooner News
Club don’t want to sell
More anon….