Dunne/ Lehmann/ Vinamilk/ transfer budget

The Northern Echo re-emphasises Arsenal are tracking Manchester City defender Richard Dunne.

The central defender could be available for as little as £1m due to a FIFA regulation that allows him to buy out the remaining year of his contract.

And the paper suggests he favours Arsenal with Champions League entry over and above Newcastle.

Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, out of contract at Arsenal this summer, is in discussions to join Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart according to German tabloid Bild.

“If I were to continue my career, I think I could do it there (in Stuttgart),” Lehmann told Bild. “They are a club who belong at the top of the Bundesliga.”

Stuttgart general manager Heldt Horst confirmed that Bild Stuttgart are interested in signing Lehmann and have spoken to him on the telephone, but no decision has been made.

Arsenal said very recently they are trying to expand the brand worldwide, so proof they are comes with the news Arsenal will officially popularize the coffee Café Moment brand-name produced by the Vietnam Milk JSC (Vinamilk). The club will attend the signing ceremony in Vietnam mid-May this year.

The article ‘Wenger will have to watch his spending’ in the Daily Telegraph today is slightly misleading in that Ken Friar deliberately did not specify the amount available for transfers. And in the real world, no-one knows to the nearest million how the individual and collective transfer costs will work out.

And finally Arsenal fan Martin Harding told colleagues at Essex Roofing Company, in Colchester, that he would come to work in womenswear for a week if the club didn’t win any silverware this season.

Workmate Dean Wicks told the Gazette: “He’s been getting quite a bit of abuse, but these things have got to be honoured!” Another employee, Dave Thurgood, had made a similar bet and admitted defeat last month and came to work in a dress for a day.