Old Arsenal target Steven Nzonzi has asked for permission to find a new club.

The Stoke City midfielder, who has been very much on Arsene Wenger’s radar ever since his days at Blackburn Rovers, submitted a transfer request earlier this week just before the departure of his manager Tony Pulis was announced.

And the want-away Nzonzi may attract interest from Arsenal who are still in the market for a natural defensive midfielder after failing to replace Alex Song last summer.

However, the Gunners will have to convince Stoke City in letting go of Nzonzi after the Potters decided to decline the request of the player they only signed on a four-year contract from Blackburn for £3.5million last summer.

“Stoke can confirm the club has rejected a written transfer request from midfielder Steven Nzonzi,” said a statement by the club.

Arsenal and Chelsea were deemed as front-runners to secure the services of Nzonzi last year, but after eventually losing out to Stoke City, Arsene Wenger may realize this is best time to go back for his countryman.

And for the 24-year-old, his latest petition does indicate that he has a knack of second-guessing his commitment to a club after also handing in a transfer request during his final days at Blackburn less than a year ago.

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Auxerre striker Yaya Sanogo will become Arsenal’s first acquisition this summer.

The 20-year-old had already agreed to join the Gunners last week and signed a pre-contract agreement over a four-year-deal at the Emirates stadium, but much of the formalities of his transfer are still in progress.

Auxerre president Cotret Guy has confirmed that Sanogo has now completed a medical to grant his move, but he will not team up with the Gunners until mid-June.

The youngster from Ligue 2 is out of contract this summer and will only cost Arsenal compensation of nearly £250,000 to Auxerre.

Sanogo, who made only 11 appearances in the league last season, does have his injury issues and will have to be carefully assessed by Arsenal when he permanently moves to London, but there are no issues concerning the talent of the 6’3”striker who netted a staggering seven goals in one week during a period in February. Those goals included four against Laval and a hat-trick against Tours.

Indeed, Sanogo’s exploits has been rewarded by France’s youth team coach Pierre Mankowski who has named the Arsenal-bound boy in the French Under-20 squad announced today ahead of the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

Below were the four goals Sanogo netted against Laval three months ago.

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Fiorentina’s Stevan Jovetic – who could be too expensive anyway – has stolen much of the Gunners’ attention but Vitesse’s Ivorian frontman may cost less and still produce more goals.

His name is Wilfried Bony, last season’s top scorer of the Dutch Eredivisie with an astonishing 31 goals.

That number cannot be taken too lightly, but if it is not just about the numbers and seeing is believing to you, then here was every single goal Bony scored in the campaign that just ended.

Tony Pulis is no longer the manager of Stoke City.

The anti-football personality who had nothing but disrespect for Arsene Wenger and Arsenal has been relieved of his classless duties at the Brittania stadium by mutual consent.

Only winner here is football.

Arsenal have earned £12,836,054 for where they were placed on the Premier League table after the final day of the 2012/13 campaign yesterday.

The fourth place finish – a minimum requirement for a club of Arsenal’s stature – was enough to not only secure the much coveted chance of playing Champions League football but also add some weight to Arsene Wenger’s transfer war chest this summer.

The sum of nearly £13 million – the average amount of fees spent on summer signings Lukas Podolksi and Olivier Giroud – could even be worth a new signing for the Gunners. But this is only part of the payments to be made by the Premier League.

The prize money for finishing fourth does not include earnings from the lucrative BPL  TV rights deal which could take the total income to around £56 million.

Here is the table of who earned what this season.

1. Manchester United – £15,101,240
2. Manchester City – £14,246,178
3. Chelsea – £13,591,116
4. Arsenal – £12,836,054
5. Tottenham – £12,080,992
6. Everton – £11,325,930
7. Liverpool – £10,570,868
8. West Bromwich Albion – £9,815,806
9. Swansea City – £9,060,744
10. West Ham United – £8,305,682
11. Norwich City – £7,550,620
12. Fulham – £6,795,558
13. Stoke City – £6,040,496
14. Southampton – £5,285,434
15. Aston Villa – £4,530,372
16. Newcastle United – £3,775,310
17. Sunderland – £3,020,248
18. Wigan Athletic – £2,265,186
19. Reading – £1,510,124
20. Queens Park Rangers – £755,062

How do you think the club should invest these gains?

Denilson will join the likes of Andrey Arshavin and Sebastian Squillaci out of the door at Arsenal as early as next month.

The once highly-rated Brazilian youngster will see his Arsenal career come to an end this summer after the club informed him that he is not part of their plans ahead of the 2013/14 season.

Denilson has spent nearly two seasons now in his homeland after being shipped back to his old club Sao Paulo during the summer of 2011, despite the exits of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri leaving a void in Arsenal’s midfield.

The aim of Denilson’s initial loan move was for the midfielder to rediscover the potential which saw him attract a £3.4million transfer to the Emirates stadium in August 2006.

But despite a solid effort in this campaign’s Campeonato Brasileiro, the 25-year-old has failed to convince the Gunners and even he admitted concerns over his future recently.

“I don’t know what will happen but I hope my situation is solved quickly.” Denilson said

Sao Paulo on the other hand are stalling over their decision.  Vice-president Joao Paulo de Jesus Lopes revealed two weeks ago that there will be no offer of a permanent move for Denilson just yet because it would ‘cost more money’.

Meanwhile, other forgotten Arsenal loanees Nicklas Bendtner, Maroaune Chamakh, Andre Santos and Johan Djourou will discuss their future with the club next month.

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Puma are still working on the final design of Arsenal’s kits ahead of their big take-over in the season after next year.

But if the Gunners’ away kit looked like this, would you buy it?

Credit to @Lagvilava7

Queens Park Rangers are now willing to let go of Loic Remy if he is bound for Arsenal.

The French striker only moved to London during the January transfer window, but even he could not help salvage his side from suffering relegation as Rangers now prepare for life in the Championship.

And with the club in the midst of a financial crisis which includes an £89 million debt, several of QPR’s prized assets who are earning high wages will not be denied a move away from the club.

One player certain to attract a move elsewhere is Loic Remy who has managed to net five goals in his short spell with Rangers, becoming the club’s joint top scorer this season along with Bobby Zamora and Adel Taarabt.

Indeed, Arsenal have been keeping tabs on Remy ever since his loan spell at Lens during his days as a youngster in France and after losing the battle to secure his services when the former Lyon boy joined Marseille in 2010, the Gunners are now ready to pounce on a second chance to sign the France international.

Incoming reports are now suggesting that QPR chairman Tony Fernandes has listed Remy amongst players who are available for sale this summer and the striker will come cheap for any suitors considering the relegation clause of just £6 million he has on his contract.

Remy is deemed to be a fan of the Gunners, but Arsenal, who sent out chief scout Steve Rowley to study the 6’1 forward in action a week before he featured against Wenger’s men last Saturday, may have to convince Remy into taking a pay-cut from the current £75,000-a-week deal he pockets at Loftus Road.

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