Reports suggested that Ashley Williams had agreed personal terms ahead of a summer move to be completed in the next two weeks.

Swansea City have quickly dispelled speculation linking one of their players to Arsenal.

However, Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins told ThisisSouthWales.com that Arsenal had made no contact with them over the possibility of signing their captain.

Stevan Jovetic is remaining coy on links to Arsenal and Juventus, among others, speaking to the media today.

The forward insisted he wasn’t thinking about potential moves:

“Every day the media has me moving to a new club, honestly, the only thing that concerns me at the moment is the World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.

As the Papiers du News (newspapers) would have it, Thomas Vermaelen’s Arsenal future is rather uncertain.

From being captain at the start of the season to third-choice centre-back for the foreseeable future at the end of it, he and Arsenal have doubts over his continued playing at the Emirates.

World Cup

With the World Cup coming up at the end of the season, Vermaelen needs to be playing fairly regularly in order to make the Belgium squad. To do this he may need to move elsewhere. Both Barcelona and Manchester United are interested, which raises a few questions:

With Bacary Sagna likely to leave in the summer, Arsenal are looking to recruit another promising youngster from France to replace him in the right-back position.

20 year-old Serge Aurier is a major target to compete with Carl Jenkinson.

It’s not been the best couple of days for Arsenal in transfer terms. After their negotiations for Stevan Jovetic hit a snag, they could now lose out on a goalkeeping target, as Stoke’s Asmir Begovic could be set to move to Liverpool, according to the Bosnian press.

Replacement

Liverpool could offload Pepe Reina this summer and have a list of targets that includes Begovic. However, a deal may not be done with Stoke, as Arsenal were widely considered the front-runners previously.

Arsenal have registered a surprise interest in West Ham United centre-back Winston Reid.

The New Zealand defender has been impressive for the Hammers as they finished the Premier League campaign, their first since promotion, in tenth place. West Ham’s mean defence was a large factor in this, and Reid stood out as a key part.

Backup

The interest was confirmed by Tor-Kristian Karlsen, a former chief scout and sporting director with information from around the footballing world.

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A frequent caveat in transfer stories pertaining to Arsenal of late, has been ‘as long as they qualify for the Champions League’. Various big name players could join the club, just as long as 4^th spot is secured.

Well, now that requirement is fulfilled, Arsenal can look to the summer transfer window properly, and begin planning how best to strengthen the squad for bigger and better things.

The free transfer of Auxerre’s Yaya Sanogo will not be quite as free as it appears.

The 20 year-old forward will join Arsenal at the end of the season (July) after his contract expires with the Ligue 2 side, but due to his being under 23 Arsenal must pay compensation for him.

The amount will be decided by a tribunal nearer to the time, but will likely be around £0.5m.

20 year-old German goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen has turned down an approach from Arsenal in the hope of securing a dream transfer to Barcelona.

The young player has been one of the Bundesliga’s standout ‘keepers for Borussia Mönchengladbach, and has attracted interest from Inter Milan as well.

However, Barcelona have him lined up as the successor to Victor Valdes and could make a move this summer, although no business will be done until manager Tito Vilanova returns from his cancer treatment next month.

Arsenal have made Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain their top target for the summer, as part of a big spending initiative.

Arsenal plan to recruit a new player for every central position to improve the spine of their side and have identified the Argentinian as a realistic but ambitious target to improve their attack.

Options

Arsenal have scouted, among others, Stevan Jovetic, Wayne Rooney and even Higuain’s Madrid team-mate Karim Benzema as potential striking targets, but feel Higuain is the best and most realistic option, in terms of instant impact and price.