Denilson is widely quoted as wanting to leave Arsenal in search of regular first-team football that will, apparently, propel him into the Brazil team. I don’t want to do the guy down, but I suspect it isn’t as simple as that! But he won’t be greatly missed. He showed early promise but his development seemed to stall and now Wilshere and Ramsey make him a distant choice. At the moment he is only really getting in as less than ideal cover for Song. The Mirror suggests that Sevilla, Roma and Wolfsberg would be interested.
The Mirror rounds off its piece by tossing in the Sagna to Real Madrid story plus Chris Samba or Phil Jones coming in from Blackburn to shore up the defence. Neither are bad players, but I’m not sure either would be the step forward we need.
According to The Sun, Arsenal have contacted Real Madrid about attacking midfielder Sergio Canales, but supply any real detail.
The Nicklas Bendtner exit story is in the Guardian today but it doesn’t seem to add any new information from yesterday.
The Mirror’s main Arsenal story is that Arshavin is going back to Zenit St Petersberg, or possibly Udinese. I guess we’re going to see a lot of Arshavin stories, but will he actually go? Wenger still makes positive statements about him and Arsenal won’t want to drop too much of the £12million he cost to bring in. Plus he won’t want much of a wage cut. I think he’s more likely to stay than go, despite his rather lacklustre season.
Over at The Mail they think that Arsenal are having a good look at Stewart Downing! Really? I agree with Arseblog on that one: ‘if he were right footed, would be scratching around the Championship somewhere’. Exactly so!
Day 2 – Tuesday 24th May 2011
In – (mentions)
Sergio Canales (1) from Real Madrid – Sun
Stewart Downing (1) from Aston Villa – Mail
Phil Jones (1) from Blackburn Rovers - Mirror
Chris Samba (1) from Blackburn Rovers - Mirror
Out - (mentions)
Andrey Arshavin (1) to Zenit or Udinese – Mirror
Bacary Sagna (1) to Real Madrid – Mirror
Denilson (3) to Sevilla, Roma or Wolfsburg – Various
In - (daily mentions since end of season)
Ricardo Alvarez - 1
Sergio Canales - 1
Stewart Downing - 1
Phil Jones - 1
Chris Samba - 1
Out - (daily mentions since end of season)
Andrey Arshavin - 1
Niklas Bendtner - 1
Denilson - 1
Bacary Sagna - 1
