Arsenal 'put' €42m on the table for Barcelona star as signing moves closer: 'Mikel Arteta takes him'

Repertoire are devised to invest about €50m (£42m) to lug Barcelona protector Jules Kounde to the Emirates Stadium, according to reports.

The Gunners rendered David Raya’s lending relocation applicable into a irreversible send for £27m over the summer season send domicile window, while Riccardo Calafiori, Mikel Merino and also Raheem Sterling alike immigrated to add more emblematic and also deepness to Mikel Arteta’s team.

Repertoire have started this season in tantamount kind to whereby they disowned off last term through 3 profitability and also one draw from their opening four Premier League suits.

But the Gunners and also Arteta are still plotting future transfers as they attractiveness to continue to chummy the crater on winners Manchester Metropolitan, who have rendered a superb overture to the brand-new project, pleasing four out of four.

Arteta currently has a watertight defence through Repertoire flaunting the superb defence in the Premier League last term through just 29 purposes conceded in 38 suits.

And also they have started this season by agreeing just one in four through Liverpool the single different other side in the Premier League through a record as pleasing as Repertoire’s.

But Arteta is still urged that Repertoire need more deepness through reports in Spain suggesting that Barcelona protector Kounde is his ‘brand-new inquiry’ in advance of the January send sector.

Arteta reckons Kounde could be a ‘peculiarity hunk’ to vying on several fronts this season and also Repertoire are ‘devised to postured a € 50 million bargain on the table in the next off January send domicile window to suggest Barcelona to permit their gamer vacate’.

But, it ‘will not surprisingly not be that stark’ as Barcelona employer Hansi Flick deliberates Kounde ‘non-transferable’ after ‘succeeding at applicable-endorse’ this season.

His freedom is eye-ordering to Arteta but Barcelona head of insurance claim Joan Laporta ‘and also the illustrating off overseeing deem the Frenchman to be peculiarity to the nightclub’s irreversible project’.

The record encompasses that ‘in football anything can filch region, and also the 50 million euros lugged out by Repertoire could gain the Barça board reckon, specifically glaring at the nightclub’s breakable monetary crisis’.

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Repertoire were reportedly in the send sector for a brand-new demonstrator over the summer season through Victor Osimhen known to be one tag they regarded.

Chelsea were alike tempted to the Nigeria international in yesteryear he relocated from Napoli on lending to Turkish side Galatasaray.

And also press contributor Charles Watts – who has framed Repertoire for years – uncertainties the Gunners will not surprisingly attractiveness to lug in Osimhen in the January send domicile window if the avenue arises.

Watts in his Entraped Offside tower: “I saw Victor Osimhen meaningful his Galatasaray debut through a liveliness at the weekend.

“Inevitably, some Repertoire supporters were rapid to pounce on that and also utilise it as a variable why the nightclub have to attractiveness to lug him in throughout the January domicile window.

“I wear’t comprehend the precise information of it, but it shows up he lugs out have a reprieve clause in his lending dedication that could see another nightclub land him in January for a decreased cost than his original takeoff clause from Napoli.

“I just wear’t actually see it happening however in specification of Repertoire.

“As I’ve said in yesteryear, I’ve never ever actually been told about any kind of Repertoire price of liveliness in Osimhen offered that the summer season of 2022, as conveniently as they run out upwards shifting for Gabriel Jesus instead.

“So I would not surprisingly be thrown for a loop if they go for him in January. I reckon, if and also as conveniently as they do go for another demonstrator, it might be a gently unalike account to the Nigeria international.

“And also anyhow, applicable presently they are horribly satisfied through what Kai Havertz is giving them as the central demonstrator.

“Havertz has been exquisite so far this season. I presumed he was delightful versus Spurs on Sunday, even if he didn’t avail himself on the scoresheet.”