Having played an important role in Mexico’s Gold Cup win and days later in the World Cup Qualifier game against the United States, Carlos Vela returned to Arsenal and is yet to feature, leading to a number of transfer rumours suggesting that the Mexican will leave Arsenal on loan to join Fulham.

But today, Mexican website Excelsior published an interview by Carlos’ agent, Eduardo Hernández, in which he reveals that Fulham’s transfer rumours are completely false:

(Translation follows)

There is no way he will join Fulham or any other team since on the first week of September I am scheduled to meet with Arsenal’s representatives to renegotiate Carlos’ contract.

The transfer rumours are completely false, published by Internet websites for the sake of having readers, since Carlos has no intention of leaving Arsenal on a loan or permanent basis.

The reason why he didn’t travel to Scotland with the rest of the squad was because he is recovering from injury, nothing more.