Headline says Mertesacker urges Arsenal to hurry up and sign Draxler.

Mertesacker's quotes in the article:

"He [Draxler] is a great talent,"
"He has already make a big impact at Schalke and in the German national team, despite his young age."
"He would be very welcome here."
"I’m excited to see what happens. You hear a lot of rumours this time of year."

Such shit journalism 😆

I dunno Burnsy, this:

"There are no offers from not a single club," Heldt told Sky.

Sounds like a tricky double-negative to me. We've put in a bid then.

Everyone has put in a bid according to that statement. Exciting!

Nah, you're misreading it.

"There are no offers [for Draxler] from not a single club"

Let O be the set of Draxlers for whom offers have been received.
Let ℂ(o) be the number of offers received for an element o ∈ O.

Heldt's statement can be rendered in second order predicate calculus as:

∄ o ∈ O, ℂ(o) != 1
or equivalently, ∀ o ∈ O, ℂ(o) = 1

From which we can deduce that if an offer has been received for any Draxler at any time, exactly one offer has been received. So the good news is, if we're still in the running for a Draxler, we have no competition!

this mod has got too much time on his hands😃

Shit anyone who reads the rumour mill must have a lifetime to waste.

@johncrossmirror 22m

Wenger denies Draxler has been spotted at #afc training ground. "It's a bit like a UFO - some see them, some don't."

😆

All tweets via @MessiMinutes

Reporter: "Are you any closer to a deal for Julian Draxler?" Wenger: "No."

"The rumours [Draxler] has been to the training ground..." Wenger: "Well,that's like UFO. Some see them everywhere."

Reporter: "Per Mertesacker says he's curious to see what happens. Are you curious over Draxler?" Wenger: "I'm curious as well. Of course."

😆

He's definitely up to something.

😃 wasn't and still maybe ain't convinced draxler is just what we need but when wengers about to turn up the madness you can't help but get sucked in

I'm curious too

😆

Did we ever find out which injury report was real? No way we're signing him if he's actually out till March.

Edit - Latest seems to be that no-one knows for sure, but there'll be an update later in the week (hopefully meaning today).

Wenger never denied he was at our training ground.

No, he didn't. The way it was said it sounded to me that he had actually been there.

Jan Aage Fjortoft ‏@JanAageFjortoft 6m
CONFIRMATION!

Draxler and Schalke trained at Arsenal's TrainingGround 7.11.13, day after Chelsea- Schalke
"Impressed by facilities"
#AFC

I dont get it, did everyone think he was given a special private tour? I always assumed that he had trained there with either Germany or Schalke.

So he's been to our training ground... but with the rest of the Schalke team? 😆

In that case Rooney's taken a tour of our training ground several times too.

Why did they train at ours the day after playing Chelsea? :confused: