Football transfer rumours: Arsenal to sign Kingsley Coman from Bayern?

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French players are hot property right now. Even ones, it seems, that didn’t go to Russia and conquer the world. Kingsley Coman, a man with a name that belongs on Game of Thrones, is in Arsenal’s crosshairs, with Unai Emery intent on bringing some pace to the flanks to make up for the fact that he signed Stephan Lichtsteiner. The Bayern Munich winger won’t come cheap though, with reports of a £44m price asking price being bandied around.

Monaco are trying to snaffle Aleksandr Golovin from under Chelsea’s nose by sending their chief Russian suit, Vadim Vasilyev – the man responsible for finding former Rumour Mill favourite Thomas Lemar – to vodka and dine his CSKA Moscow counterpart. “When we receive an offer, we always try to negotiate openly,” said CSKA’s president, Yevgeny Giner. “Indeed, we were visited by the vice-president of Monaco and made a proposal for Golovin. Chelsea? We have no secret agreement with them. The question of his transition to another club will be decided, I think, in the next couple of days.”

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