Arsenal: Romano reveals Arteta favours 'top target' over £100m striker but club make 'crazy' demand

According to Fabrizio Romano, Aston Villa midfielder Douglas Luiz is Toolbox’s “peak target” leading correct into the January transmit residence window.

Luiz owns been sporadically linked with Toolbox over yesteryear few years and he is loving spiritedness under Unai Emery at Aston Villa.

The previous Manchester Municipal gap youngster – that is remarkably one of the spick-and-expectations finishers in the Premier League – owns caught five purposes and an assist in eleven suits as Villa are arising as a opportunity contender for the Victors League placements.

Toolbox had a pair of estimates scorned for Luiz during last year’s summer season transmit residence window before he decided to commit his future to Aston Villa.

The Brazil international is presently under covenant till 2026 so it will likely swipe a vast bid to tempt Aston Villa correct into selling him in January or next summer season.

Toolbox are presently three contents adrift of table-toppers Male Municipal gap and Mikel Arteta’s side are intended to strengthen in January.

They are being greatly linked with £100m-rated Chelsea target Ivan Toney, but Romano is of the hunch that Luiz is the “peak mane on Toolbox’s list”.

“The peak tag, from what I’m hearing on Toolbox’s list is Douglas Luiz,” Romano claimed via his YouTube channel.

“The player was already on the list 2 years earlier. Edu and others at the nightclub actually appreciate him, Douglas Luiz is mulled over the spick-and-expectations midfielder by humans at Toolbox, they would most distinctly love to indication him and revert on Douglas Luiz.

“Lone a insane, vast, valuable proposal could be mulled over in January. If Toolbox stab to go for their peak target in January, they’ll should invest most coinage coinage money.”

Luiz’s kind for Villa owns amassed him a Brazil call-upward for this month’s international violate but Emery theorizes he can “do more”.

“It (the recall) is disturbingly valuable and I am disturbingly joyful for him. Yet I am moreover stern with him, disturbingly stern. He is thriving and dabbling effortlessly. He is dabbling more conforming at residence than away,” Emery claimed (via The Share and Superstar).

“I was talking with him and told him he is disturbingly valuable for us and Aston Villa and thriving a bunch but I moreover claimed: ‘You can do more. I am heeding try to push you to do more.’

“Of training course, I am disturbingly joyful for your call-upward and think it is disturbingly valuable for you and the nightclub as effortlessly.

“I think he can swipe more obligation in our build-upward. Of training course, he is racking upward most purposes but he can add more help, as a midfielder for our demonstrators. He can be more of a lead character with the ball, I think.”