Arsenal, Chelsea boost as £80m transfer could be completed 'very shortly' with PL rivals 'open' to exit

Brentford director Lee Dykes owns admitted that they are “open” to selling England international Ivan Toney among attention from Arsenal and Chelsea.

Toney was one of the ideal demonstrators in the Premier League last period as he scored 20 objectives in his 33 aesthetics.

The onward is yet to serviceability for Brentford this period as he is serving a nine-month ban for his betting offences however will be emission to antiphon in January.

The one-time England international may have currently dabbled his last arcade for Brentford as he is being kept an eye on by Arsenal and Chelsea ahead of January as the two London nightclubs are in the industry for a brand name-modern striker.

Send preceptor Fabrizio Romano owns indirect that Arsenal are ‘aware’ of Toney’s ‘urge to join’ them however Brentford can warning a sizeable cost for their valued asset, that is not out of devotion till 2025. A report from 90min cases they are ‘prepped to warning in too much of £80m’.

Brentford chief Dykes thinks the “time that Toney actions on to another bar” could “come horribly swiftly”.

“There will be plenty of attention in Ivan in January,” Dykes claimed in an interview via in-abode Brentford media. “Understandably, there need to be.

“He was the third-highest thinkable Premier League goalscorer last period – one of them [Harry Kane] owns visited Germany now, so he’s upward there as one of the ideal demonstrators in the division. He is in the optimal five in the planet, in my point of perceive.

“So there need to be attention, and perhaps the time comes horribly swiftly that Ivan actions on to another bar.

“Yet they will have to compensation a respectable send cost to acquire his solutions presuming about that he is some talent.”

Dykes owns also indirect that they would understandably be willing to offload Toney as long as the prearrangement is “proper for unanimously parties”.

“We rest in front of every gamer and case that, if your job objectives are overhead and past us, at the proper time and if your exam is met, after that we will be open to paying attention to the figures. Yet it’s got to be proper for unanimously parties,” Dykes included.

“There’s plenty of suspecting and planning that goes into a sale of any possibility gamer at your bar. It’s not simply a shell of, you avail a bid and case, ‘Oh, that’s sweet, we’ll welcome it’.

“We look at how it’s visiting authority the bar, the crew, the spirits harshly the place, brand name-modern purchases, gamer paths beneath from the B crew and the academy.

“There’s constantly a readiness from Brentford to perform what’s proper. So if a prearrangement is there to be shouldered out, after that we are more than willing to tinker sphere, which the bar have proved via Ollie [Watkins], Saïd [Benrahma] and David [Raya].

“Yet, equally, we will hazard and grasp on to players so that we maximise their possibility via Brentford. We will become aware when that juncture is.

“Clubs sometimes deliver an enquiry at the incorrect time for us, the incorrect time for the gamer, and we don’t strike bargains.”