Silly Season top 5 - second installment

Here are updated, personal top 5 lists of Arsenal's supposed transfer targets this summer.


Credible list first:

out:  Simon Kjær: the Danish defender, rated at £10m, is now crocked after a WC warmup game for Denmark. Jack Rodwell: definitely staying with Everton, signing a five year deal. And Marouane Chamakh has actually been signed, remember?

5. (3) Brede Hangeland: this everlasting rumour was lastly pushed by the Evening Standard. For £10m, you get Norway's international captain, Fulham's MVP and one of the best defenders in the league. They say.

4. (new) Mark Schwarzer: at 38 he would be too old to be a Wenger signing? Well, we signed Mart Poom back in the day, and even re-signed John Lukic at almost 40.

3. (new) Yoann Gourcuff: playmaker from Bordeaux, about to hit the World Cup. This deal will either happen very quickly or not at all. Most probably the latter.

2. (new) Laurent Koscielny: a defender from French football who the local papers there report are scouted and a subject for bidding. These stories have been uncritically translated by the Mail and the Mirror. We'll see...

1. (2) Pape Diakhatè: now wanted even by Bacary Sagna. Supposedly on the skinny side for a central defender, but that would just be a typical Wenger signing, wouldn't it?

The silly list is all new, or it would be boring:

5.  Joe Cole: being a free transfer doesn't help. His salary would be as far from free as you could imagine.

4. Lassana Diarra: just what Arsenal needs now, an injured midfielder. And one who wasn't good enough  the last time he was at the club.

3.  Shaun Wright-Phillips: just what Arsenal needs now, a kind of winger-cum-midfielder, on the slight side but with good dribbling skills... Touted by his step-dad, not by any others.

2.  Zlatan Ibrahimovic: sure, you could just see him link up with Bendtner, waiting for the right moment to pass to him... And at least the Dane can handle the rain.

1.  Luka Modric: as if he was even good enough...

Feel free to comment and discuss  any target on this blog.