The transfer season is truly a special time. It frustrates, delights and sometimes outright confuses football fans and Arsenal’s 2015 saga involving Karim Benzema went down in summer folklore for the Gunners.
Karim Benzema was persistently linked with a move and Arsene Wenger looked very close at one stage to securing the Frenchman. Benzema however joined a long list of Arsenal ‘nearly men’ alongside the likes of Luis Suarez, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
A famous interview with former QPR midfielder Rodney Marsh sent fans into hysterics when he claimed he had been told Arsenal had a £48 million bid accepted by Real Madrid. A friend of a friend of a friend perhaps?