According to Ray Sky reporter Sacha Tavolieri, Arsenal began negotiating Cesco with Leipzig, and Yorke verbally agreed to join.
The reporter wrote: "Leipzig has indeed begun negotiating with Arsenal about Cesco's transfer. Arsenal's goal is to advance on multiple signing fronts in order to prevent nothing from finding after the negotiations break down."
"At present, Cesco has not reached a personal agreement with Arsenal, and Portuguese forward York has verbally agreed to join Arsenal, and now we have to wait for subsequent development."