Newcastle To Miss Out on Trabelsi?

By Matthew Jones
July 20 2004

According to reports today, Hatem Trabelsi has found a new club, but is it Newcastle? Unfortunately, no! The Ajax defender will reportedly move to Arsenal today in a "£4m dual-purpose move".

Arsene Wenger is keen to keep captain Patrick Vieira at the club, and signing Trabelsi shows that the club are still detirmined to sign top-class players.

With Arsenal heading off to Austria tomorrow for a week-long tour, Wenger wanted to seal the transfer before hand.

The 27-year-old will now join them instead of Newcastle or Chelsea, who were also interested.

Full Story from the Daily Mail.