Gunners set to complete signing of Real Madrid midfielder on season-long loan

Following the departure of Alex Song to Barcelona, it is inevitable that a number of big newspapers and sports news channels will link Arsenal with a plethora of central midfielders this week. The name that has been permanently mentioned throughout the summer is Yann M’Vila, but Arsenal now seem to be much closer to signing another midfielder.
The big transfer news is that Real Madrid centre mid Nuri Sahin looks set to join Arsenal on a season-long loan, with a view to a permanent move. For those of you who dismiss this as pure speculation (we have been linked with a lot of midfielders in recent weeks), I think that BBC Sport will serve as a pretty credible source. The BBC hardly ever publish transfers that don’t happen. There is the odd occasion that they can get things wrong, but this is normally if a player fails a medical ...