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Spirits are high in the Arsenal camp, after four major signings have been completed with the season still two weeks away from lift-off.
Among these arrivals was Barcelona’s Alexis Sanchez, who joined the club on a deal worth £35 million to enhance the Gunners attacking force for an assault on the league title next campaign.
Sanchez on the metro
As The Metro report today, Sanchez has been training at Arsenal’s London Colney facilities ahead of the Emirates Cup this weekend, in a bid to get fit after a successful World Cup campaign with Chile.
Injured English winger Theo Walcott is also accelerating his rehabilitation at the club’s training base and tweeted a picture today of his bonding session with the new signing.
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After being alerted of his availability, Arsenal have put themselves in pole position for Portuguese midfielder William Carvalho.
The Sporting Lisbon star has been subject to much speculation about his future over the past few weeks and Arsène Wenger has identified him as a top transfer target this summer.
Transfer listed
Portuguese news source Record believe that Lisbon have decided to make the player available for transfer, as a board meeting revealed they are in desperate need of raising funds for new signings.
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With two weeks before the start of the Premier League season, the transfer saga involving Arsenal and Real Madrid has taken another subplot in the Gunners pursuit of Sami Khedira.
The Metro report that the German international has not signed for Arsenal yet, due to his wage demands potentially making him the highest paid player at the club.
Talk Khedira
However, it is thought that the North London side are still fully engaged in the transfer and TalkSport host Stan Collymore has reassured supporters that the deal is still firmly alive.
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After weeks of transfer speculation and whispers over the short-term future of German international Sami Khedira, Real Madrid have again given Arsenal hope of signing the World Cup winner.
A deal is still alive
MARCA claim that Khedira’s contract only has 12 months remaining, therefore linked clubs Bayern Munich and Arsenal would be keen to allow the player to run down his current deal to then join next summer.
With multiple outlets reporting that a fee of around €30 million was agreed for the player, it is his high wage demands that have remained the sticking point during the transfer saga.
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Following this weeks £16 million capture of Southampton right-back Calum Chambers, current Arsenal star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has threatened legal action over the use of his nickname ‘Chambo’.
Since his arrival, Oxlade-Chamberlain has taken the 19-year-old under his wing, posing for multiple pictures on the journey to Arsenal’s Austrian training camp, ahead of the Emirates Cup this weekend.
Ready to go to court
Tweeting that he has made sure that the player is ‘under his wing’, Alex also jokingly revealed that,
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