Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning Linked in OP

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But as I said I fear stagnation more than I fear change

Calum Chambers, the Southampton right-back, is among Arsenal’s list of summer transfer targets as Arsène Wenger accelerates his plans ahead of the possible departure of Bacary Sagna.
Although Arsenal are now ready to stretch to a new three-year deal for Sagna, who will be out of contract in June, the 31-year-old has made no decision on his future amid competing interest from Manchester City, Galatasaray and Paris St-Germain.
Arsenal scouts were already monitoring Chambers but have intensified their interest over recent weeks in a player who would further enhance the core of young British players in the squad.
At only 19, Chambers has graduated through the Southampton academy with left-back Luke Shaw, who is increasingly likely to be sold this summer to Manchester United or Chelsea for around £30 million.
Chambers is less experienced than Shaw but this has been his breakthrough season in senior football and he has played in 21 Premier League games for Southampton while also captaining the England Under-19 team.
n an interview last week with the Telegraph, Chambers described Southampton as “the perfect place to be” and there is an argument that he would still benefit from another season of regular Premier League football at St Mary’s. Chambers also agreed a new contract last summer that commits him to the club until 2017.
Southampton’s financial position, however, does need realigning after their spending over the past three years. Their most recent accounts, published last month, showed that they still owed £27 million in transfer fees as well as £30 million for the new training ground.
Arsenal could potentially also offer immediate first-team football, although Sagna could yet stay and Carl Jenkinson will be hoping to compete for the right-back role. Jenkinson, though, is more likely to go out on loan for a season and Wenger has repeatedly proved that he would have no compunction about regularly starting a teenager if he believes that they are ready.
As well as right-back, Wenger’s focus this summer is central midfield and at least one, and possibly two, additional strikers. A renewed bid for Lars Bender, the Bayer Leverkusen holding midfielder, can be expected after a £20  million offer was rejected last summer.
Hamburg midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu is another player who Arsenal are now monitoring, with Álvaro Morata, Josep Drmic, Mario Mandzukic, Julian Draxler and Karim Benzema all on the longlist of striker targets.
Wenger’s summer planning is a further sign that he does still plan to extend his own contract, although his mood will clearly be shaped by whether he can now lead the club to what would be a fifth FA Cup and an 18th consecutive top-four finish.