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Here is Arsenal Football Club’s confirmed transfers during the Summer transfer window of 2013.
If certain clauses are not mentioned, e.g Buy back clauses, buy options, this means the clauses are not certain. All transfers are confirmed by the official Arsenal website.
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Mesut Özil – Real Madrid
£44m
Emiliano Viviano – Palermo
Season-long loan, with option to buy
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The club have finally confirmed the signing of German international midfielder Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid.
The long awaited announcement came at 10:28pm, little over half an hour before the window officially closes.
Arsenal fans were left on tenterhooks as the deal took four and a half hours longer than expected, with Sky Sports claiming that the deal should have been done around 6:00pm.
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Numerous players have taken to Facebook and Twitter to welcome Arsenal’s latest arrival – Mesut Ozil in a €50million deal from Real Madrid.
Lukas Podolski spend the majority of the evening on Twitter retweeting the incoming praise of newbie Ozil, including famous Arsenal fans such as German boxer Felix Sturm and double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah.
The German retweeted Farah’s excited statement earlier on:
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Well… bad news unfortunately, as BBC Sport posted via Twitter that due to Chelsea not allowing Demba Ba to go to Arsenal on loan, the Gunners had to call off Nicklas Bendtner’s move to Crystal Palace.
Arsenal are not expecting to sign a striker by the end of the window.
It's clear Arsenal have wanted a striker all summer, but strange that there was no backup plan after Ba failure.
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After it emerged this morning that Arsenal were in for out-of-favour Chelsea forward Demba Ba on a possible loan move, the deal now looks to be dead.
According to several journalists, with such a big name signing, Arsenal are now a rival and Chelsea have no need to let the Senegalese leave. The striker will most likely remain at the West London club, though a move to Everton or Roma remains on the cards.
Arsenal short in attack
Demba Ba is by no means a world class centre-forward, but the deal would have addressed an area where Arsenal are in desperate need of improvement.
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