So, Arsenal are willing to part with Samir Nasri if Carlos Tévez goes the other way? The papers today make for entertaining reading, but the Sun offers up this piéce de resistance.
This is bargaining of the highest order. Yesterday, a clearly miffed Arsène Wenger told the media that he had no evidence of Nasri being tapped up by Manchester City. He didn't say it didn't happen, that's for sure.
At the same time, City manager Roberto Mancini complained in public about his bosses not getting the players he has requested to sign in time. After chasing Nasri for months, the deal has still not been made.
'When you have your targets, it's important to go in very hard,' Mancini's quoted as saying in the Manchester Evening News.
When the Sun writes about Tévez today, they themselves must be the only ones taking it seriously. Arsenal wouldn't touch his wages, his agent or his baggage with a barge pole. But by bringing his name into negotiations, they yank Mancini's chain - and perhaps Nasri's, too?
For more of the psychology in Wenger's transfer thinking, why not read today's piece by Sam Wallace of the Independent? I don't agree with all his conclusions, but he seems to be the journalist who have caught Wenger's mood and wordplay the best.
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