June 12

One of Japan’s most talented players and yet another Barcelona youngster are today’s names linked with a possible move to Arsenal during the summer.

According to Mirror Football, CSKA Moscow’s Keisuke Honda wants to leave the Russian side with manager Arsene Wenger confessing last year that he likes the 24-year old saying that whenever he is on the ball the “magic starts”, ultimately the reason why the Gunners are linked with the left-footed midfielder.

In other news, The Daily Mail believes that Arsenal are interested in 17-year old “wonderkid” Gerard Deulofeu. The articles explains that Gunners chief scout Steve Rowley was in Switzerland earlier this month to monitor the progress of the youngster at the Under 19 European Championship qualifying campaign.

Earlier this year, Barcelona president Sandro Rosell confessed that the relationship between the Gunners and the Catalans is not good as he considered Arsenal’s behaviour to sign Jon Toral from their youth academy to be “a little immoral”.

And before moving on to today’s poll, a look at yesterday’s results in which we collected more than 3,000 votes with Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema getting an impressive 1,838 positive votes with mixed reactions for the versatile Odil Ahmedov.

As always, please let us know your preference on today’s linked players and don’t be shy to join the discussion in our newly-launched Arsenal forum.

Player Profile

Keisuke Honda

Date of birth: 13/06/1986

Place of birth: Settsu, Osaka

Age: 24

Height: 1,82

Nationality: Japan

Position: Midfielder

Foot: Left

Gerard Deulofeu

Date of birth: 13/03/1994

Place of birth: Riudarenes

Age: 17

Height: 1,79

Nationality: Spain

Position: Striker, Winger

Foot: Right

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