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[Biggles]

Did that happen in the press conference planned for today?

[damir]

Arsenal's hopes of landing top target Edin Dzeko have been dashed after the 23-year-old striker made it clear he would either be joining AC Milan or remaining with Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg.

Manager Arsene Wenger sees the powerful frontrunner as the cutting edge his side have been lacking, while Manchester City have also been alerted to a record of 26 goals from 32 Bundesliga appearances last season and added him to their list of attacking targets, alongside Carlos Tevez and Samuel Eto'o.

But a move to the Barclays Premier League appears to be out of the question after Wolfsburg braced themselves for a straight fight with AC Milan for his services.

Sportsmail can reveal that Dzeko's agent Irfan Redzepagic held talks with Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani in the Bosnia marksman's home city of Sarajevo over the weekend.

Mindful that Dzeko would take little persuading to sign for Milan, after supporting them as a youngster and recently admitting a wish to play in Serie A, Galliani will attempt to push through a £15million deal to take him to the San Siro.

It is certain to meet with stern resistance at the Volkswagen Arena, though, after chairman Hans-Dieter Potsch reiterated Wolfsburg's determination to hang on to their prize asset and again stressed that, with the backing of the German car giants who own them, they have no need to sell.

Dzeko, who has also been linked to Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Portsmouth in recent weeks, seemed to be pinning his hopes on a move to Milan, saying: 'They have always been my favourite club, right back to my days as a small boy, growing up in Sarajevo.'

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this is also means that it is true we want to sign him and we are after new striker(!!!!!),but can we sign him-that is another question!I know we made an offer,which wasn't obviously good enough!Tomorrow the representatives of chelsea are coming to Sarajevo to talk about his future in chelsea,and Milan already made an bid,30mil.euros!

[koopa]

Can't we just sell Adebayor too Milan! In that way we can sign Dzeko with their money!

[damir]

Can't we just sell Adebayor too Milan! In that way we can sign Dzeko with their money!

It depends a lot from that,if Ade goes to Milan than trust me Dzeko will come to AFC!

[koopa]

Sounds good.

[Simplesimon]

Lets just hope that happens eh? Sadly i think he'll go to milan

[damir]

Sounds good.

things are now little complicated because there are too much clubs involved with big cash,all wanting him,but I know for sure we made an offer,and my point is if we made an offer for him that can only mean one thing-we are looking for another striker as replacement for Ade or RvP

[damir]

Lets just hope that happens eh? Sadly i think he'll go to milan

YOU CAN'T BE MORE SAD THAN ME !Dzeko is with our national team in France,we are playing friendly match tomorrow there with Oman,and he didn't made any statements today or yesterday about Milan...but we will see what will happen!

[Cypriot Gooner]

Watched him for the first time v Manchester Utd. He is awesome. Made Vidic look and scored a great goal.

Would love to see him at Arsenal

[Gunner_X5]

Yeah he really impressed me against United, hope we get him instead of chamakh in jan