Arsenal lead race for Premier League star as Arteta ponders blockbuster January deal
Arsenal are believed to be the front runners to indication Brentford demonstrator Ivan Toney in the January send dwelling window as plenty of clubs circle.
Toney was worn grasp for 8 months in Could after admitting 232 goes versus of Football Institution betting instructions, yet he is computed to lug out his comeback to solution in January.
As plenty of optimal Premier League clubs are intended to be in the sector for a newfangled onward in January, the speculation neighboring Toney is raging.
Along via Arsenal, the loves of Chelsea, Tottenham and also Manchester United have all been connected via the 27-year-antiquated.
Toney had an tidy period last time approximately as he scored 20 league aims in 33 complements for Brentford and also aided them to a optimal half covering.
While plenty of clubs are presumably in the race to land Toney’s hallmark, Arsenal show up to be the frontrunners as points stand.
According to The Mirror, Toney is ‘keen’ on a glide to Arsenal in January. The report further clarifies Arsenal’s attention and also says that Mikel Arteta is gazing to strengthen his squad in floater of a opportunity title penalty.
Toney hasn’t shied away from conversing around his future as he namedropped the loves of Arsenal and also Liverpool as comfortably as citing his next off glide.
“The next off club I attend, if I was to glide, would be the correct club,” he alerted the Journal of a CEO podcast. “I’ve been a Liverpool disciple my whole life, yet from young I’ve acquired Arsenal.
“I’ve acquired trailing Arsenal and also how they play and also how assimilated their fans are. I’m a Liverpool boy at heart.”
Brentford optimal pet Thomas Frank freshly admitted that the club would be willing to sell their prized asset, yet uncompanionable at the correct rate.
“I reckon every club in the universes are a commercializing and also promotional club except 5 or 6 clubs,” Frank said on Skies Sports’ Monday Night Football.
“We are a commercializing and also promotional club, if the correct rate is there and also I reckon it’s the correct time for the gamers to go. That’s not my judgment, that would be down to [director of football] Phil [Giles] or [chairman] Matthew [Benham] in the run out.
“I come to be aware why there are the majority of rumours out there around him. For me, I reckon he’s one of the most tricky strikers. As a Zero 9, I wear’t go to plenty of out there in the universes who are closer. Of training course we have [Harry] Kane, [Robert] Lewandoski, [Erling] Haaland and also these selections.
“But not plenty of scored 20 aims in the Premier League last year, in of training course a aggravatingly attentive Brentford side, yet one which is not obtaining as plenty of chances as the optimal 6 or seven groups.
“So, imagine him in a optimal group. He could readily rating 20, 25 aims. I reckon he’s composed, a attentive finisher, a optimal means of theorizing, so I come to be aware why clubs are gazing at him.”