Arsenal fans get into deadline day festival spirit by tracking random black van - The Warm-Up

FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES Staying Put Ad For an hour or so, a certain section of the internet got very excited indeed. A video taken by a fan showed a black van outside a house, apparently near Birmingham, apparently belonging to a footballer. Another enterprising fan then claimed to have found some traffic camera footage showing that same van on its way to London.

Premier LeagueChelsea agree personal terms with Leicester City defender Fofana — reports13/08/2022 AT 13:18 Lord Lucan at the wheel. Shergar riding shotgun. And Douglas Luiz tucked up in the back, thumbing through a contract offer from Arsenal.

Apparently. Maybe he did head down to London, just on the off-chance. Or maybe Villa Twitter and Arsenal Twitter got carried away, got pranked, got right into the deadline day festival spirit.

It's certainly a step up from Wesley Sneijder at the airport. A slightly terrifying step up. According to the papers, Villa rejected three bids from Arsenal over the course of yesterday; the Londoners didn't get close to the asking price of £40m.

Also not on the move was Youri Tielemans, who had been linked with Arsenal and everywhere else all summer, but instead spent his evening actually playing football. Real football. Not very deadline day behaviour, that.

Must do better. Both Luiz and Tielemans are, therefore, heading into the last year of their contract. And both their clubs seem relatively relaxed about this fact.

The pressure to cash in on players in this situation has been a reliable staple of windows past, and presumably Arsenal were hoping it would do some work for them. «Here's £25m. That's 25m more than you'll get in a year's time.