Deadline day (breaking news on new players)

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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Malouda & Dempsey still in our wheelhouse. Malouda seems displaced at Chelsea while Fulham just need the money.
     
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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Juventus is our competition for Malouda. We've apparently made an £8m bid. Easier for Malouda to cross town than move to Italy, si?
     
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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Apparently we're super cereal about Dempsey and have offered £10m. That'd be a boost for US Soccer.
     
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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Bids for Y M'Vila and M Martin were rejected last week; no word on whether we'll try again today or let both slide.
     
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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Still a lot of talk about defenders including Alex from Chelsea. Do you believe we'd displace Vermaelen?
     
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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Scott Dann on his way to Blackburn; Chris Samba's partner or replacement?
     
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    Alvaro Pereira's move to Chelsea breaks down, makes selling Malouda less likely.
     
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    Re: Eleventh hour transfer thread (breaking news on new players)

    Quiet on the home front. As business hours draw to a close in London it seems less and less likely we'll make more purchases today.
     
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    Mertesacker deal complete, dunno if they got a picture of him with a kit before he returned to his homeland. Should be posted on the Arsenal site soon enough.
     
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    Yossi Benayoun's agent says he will join Pool, Arsenal, or that other team today.

    Benayoun in Liverpool? With Dirk? That's too much ugly for one lineup.
     
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    Old Arsenal player Hleb, who thought the grass was greener elsewhere, is on his third move in as many years, heading from Birmingham to Wolfsburg. He destroyed his career by leaving.
     
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    Benayoun is inexpensive. Probably less than £5m. Can Wenger resist a bargain?
     
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    Gave away Carlos Vela's number. Don't know if the club still has expectations of the young Mexican or if he is just being lent out to get him out of the way.
     
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    Lineup as of 3.45pm deadline day...

    Szyzesny
    Sanga, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Santos
    Song, Ramsey
    Arshavin, Wilshere, Walcott
    Van Persie

    Fabianski, Mannone, Almunia
    Jenkinson, Koscielny, Djourou, Gibbs, Miquel, Squillaci
    Rosicky, Diaby, Frimpong, Eastmond
    Gervinho, Chamakh, Bendtner, Young, Oxlade-Chamberlain
     
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    From Matt Law (Express) on Twitter - "Told arsenal is a mad-house today and they're working v v hard to get a midfielder. No definitive progress as yet though"
     
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    Malouda announces he won't be leaving Chelsea. If Pereira had arrived- probably a different story.
     
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    Adam Johnson on loan to Arsenal?

    Man City doing us favours now? Seems pretty outlandish.
     
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    Henri Lansbury to West Ham on loan official.

    Don't quite understand why we're giving him away when we are threadbare in the midfield... unless he's not at this level. Seemed fine when I saw him tho?
     

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