Vermaelen set for Arsenal exit as Gunners line up Loic Remy

Zenit St Petersberg to offer £15m for Gunners captain before end of Russian transfer window

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WITH the Russian transfer window open to the end of this month, speculation is growing that Zenit St Petersburg are preparing a swoop for Arsenal's Thomas Vermaelen.

The Daily Mirror is just one of several papers to claim that with the Belgian unable to break the partnership of Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker at the Emirates, he is instead looking for a way out.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.