If February wasn't early enough for a Silly Season, Arsenal's latest defeats (Blackburn and Bayern München) are excellent events for tabloids and websites to harvest clicks from exasperated Gooners.
We're not supporting a lucky team these days, it has to be said.
It doesn't matter that the team's failings are more about psychology than the quality of the players available. Even if there are four months left until any deals are done and dusted, several English papers are already rebuilding the team in their minds.
The Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Telegraph and the Metro have all listed numerous replacements and reinforcements supposedly on Arsène Wenger's radar. For good measure, the Metro have also listed 10 candidates to reinforce Arsenal instead of Wenger, if or when he is out the door.
And the £70m that the Telegraph claims will be spent this summer will be out of the coffers fast enough if and when all the players they've compiled here join up!
The players mentioned and linked are all the usual suspects, linked before and soon to be linked again. In due time, all rumours are listed alphabetically here.
Interestingly, no media outlet had picked up on Nacho Monreal before his deadline day move to Arsenal. Speaking about the signing, Wenger admitted that this was a deal set up for summer, but injury to Kieran Gibbs forced them to close the deal earlier than planned.
Chances are there are more deals like that, already sealed for the summer window. Like Lukas Podolski last year, and Marouane Chamakh the year before that. Only noone has told the reporters yet...
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