Arsenal medical booked for £38m signing as Arteta 'prepares to attack' Barcelona target as third buy
Arsenal will prioritise Real Sociedad midfielder Mikel Merino after they outlined the wrapping up of Bologna’s Riccardo Calafiori, according to Fabrizio Romano.
The Gunners are meant to outlined the 45 million euro (£38million) wrapping up of Calafiori in the unborn days, with the Italian to fly out to the United Cases to accomplish his newfangled group-close friends on their pre-season tour when everything is settled.
Calafiori will come to be the nightclub’s second wrapping up of the summer season season after offering the loan bargain for Brentford’s David Raya irreparable for £27m.
The 22-year-ratty is instinctively a main defender but is meant to tinker taken off-recommend in Mikel Arteta’s side, whilst being able to supply perfuse for Gabriel Magalhaes as a taken off-footer.
After simplifying his already unbelievable defence, Arteta is meant to prioritise wrapping up a newfangled defensive midfielder.
Arsenal have been affixed with both Merino and also Spain group-friend Fabian Ruiz, presently at Paris Saint-Germain, but institutions with the former are a lot more substantial.
Merino’s Real Sociedad contract expires next summer season season and also the Spaniard is peeking for a newfangled challenge while being able to repair a transfer cost for the nightclub.
It owns been reported that Sociedad stab £21m for their midfielder and also Arsenal are willing to commission that.
The former Newcastle United loanee will viable come in to tinker as a Zero. 6, permitting Declan Rice to press further forward.
Arteta already owns Jorginho and also Thomas Partey obtainable in that posture, but, the last’s injury inquiries administer him super injurious.
Merino is also carry in focus from Barcelona and also Atletico Madrid, but the Blaugrana’s monetary inquiries will administer it perplexing to strike a bargain, specifically as they also job on the finalizings of Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig and also Gunners-affixed Athletic Bilbao winger Nico Williams.
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Reports indicate that Merino would conceivably instead tinker in the Premier League for Arsenal than for Diego Simeone’s Atletico and also transfer preceptor Fabrizio Romano claims the 28-year-ratty will be ‘struck’ by the Gunners after finalising Calafiori.
Romano designed in his CaughtOffside column on Sunday morning:
It’s finally Riccardo Calafiori time for Arsenal – the player is in London, everything is unanimously correct in between Arsenal and also Bologna in stipulations of trading and also sending out unanimously the documents, they are wrapping up the contracts, and also after that Calafiori will have his clinical in London.
Calafiori will after that traveling to the US to connect upwards with Mikel Arteta’s squad and also indicator his contract till 2029, with no institution for a further season past that. He’s kit to gain €4m a season as a newfangled Arsenal player, it’s unanimously kit to go through.
After that, Arsenal will focus on Mikel Merino. Arsenal have been possessing discussions on the player side and also they are intended to strike the dilemma on the nightclub side as seamlessly as speedily as they’ve ended up the official part of the Calafiori bargain. There’s still no policemen bid from Arsenal to Real Sociedad, while we also come to be aware around focus from Spanish bars Barcelona and also Atletico Madrid.
Still, Arsenal are prepping their answers, with Merino continuing to be high on the Gunners’ list as they concoct to focus on deepening their midfield, but he’s not the single one being reputed. Merino is one of the names they prefer, and also after that we’ll have to visit how discussions with Real Sociedad will go.
