Ok so as you know I have spent some time with the coaches and players over the past week since last sunday. Here are some of the insights I have gotten. It's all over the place, I try my best to remember as much as I can. Feel free to drop questions and if I have the answers for it I will reply. Pictures, I will post in the private forum so as not to compromise everything that can leak to reddit or twitter. Of course it has been pretty cool to know Gyokeres signed before any journo reported it, what caused the delay and like whatever fraudulent journos get exposed easily in this past week. Like the journo who said Gyokeres has touched down etc but I know he is not here and I know the exact flight he is taking, what are the plans etc. Also the spanish journo who said Mosquera has been training in Singapore and participating in pre-season when he is sleeping the whole day in the room lol. Also take note many of these are already old info by now.

Was told Arsenal told hotel to cater for 2 more pax (now we know is Mosquera and Gyokeres)
We were contacted by a striker's agent expressing his strong interest to join us. Name was not told to me (now I know it's Isak). We delayed the Gyokeres deal, media was fed about add-ons disagreement, but if you are wondering why we agreed everything and suddenly became Sporting wants more guaranteed add-ons, it's actually our side deliberating whether to pivot. Was also told we considered the spillover impact (how long it will take to get the other deal over the line vs Arteta wants a striker ASAP in pre-season to be ready for the season), and our future signings in this window. Now we know we chose Gyokeres. Was told by Mr R half an hour before media announced Gyokeres that we chose him and "hope you guys will be happy with our choice."
Enquired about how come this tour is so strict compared to Wenger/Emery days last 2 tours in Singapore. "Arteta's instructions" Differences include 11 body guards vs 2 previously. 1 guard for each player movement, 3 at all times surrounding him when Arteta moves. No casual interactions with fans allowed, no touching of fans markers (arsenal provides it).
Tried to fish for info if we would sign one more after Gyokeres. Was told the following.

"Yes we have space for one more, yes."
"We are happy with the progress, the media does not know yet."
"Not dependant on sales."
"Not in for Isak, nope. It is not in our plans to move for him now."
"Eze? You know I can't tell you but let's see." - with a big smile.

Gyokeres was too far down the line and we did not want to give up all our efforts by the time Isak contacted us.
Saw ******* browsing his laptop the day after Gyokeres was announced. He first looked at the media articles (bbc, mirror etc), then he went on reddit to browse for fans reactions. Then we surfed twitter to see fans reactions. Then he opened 2 players pages. First one was Alejandro Ganarcho. He took pictures of some stats and sent on his phone. Then he spent some time on Rafael Leao's page. Same thing.
Spoke to Nwaneri, he has signed the thing and is looking forward to playing centrally.
Spent time with Dowman (this was before I spoke to the coach that gave the youth insights). He didn't come across as positive to me at that time.
Supposed to spend some time with the coaches today. Ended up spending the whole day with Merino. Didn't talk much about football, mostly about my country and food.