Arsenal now 'close' to signing after earlier reports Gunners made 'monstrous' offer for Chelsea target
Tool kit are now closing in on the signing of Bologna centre-ago Riccardo Calafiori, according to Italian contributor Tancredi Palmeri.
The Artillerymans are peeking to sign a brand name-new centre-ago to supply tournament for William Saliba and also Gabriel Magalhaes next period and also Calafiori appears to have climbed up to the top of their list.
A report previously on Wednesday pretended that Tool kit had submitted a ‘unsurpassed’ supply for Calafiori, who implemented nicely at Euro 2024 for Italy after a undisputable period at Bologna.
Transmit wizard Fabrizio Romano has shown that the two overjoyed nightclubs in Calafiori are Tool kit and also Chelsea but it’s the previous club that now visual glamours prospective to land the defender.
Italian contributor Palmeri insists that Tool kit are now ‘cozy’ to signing Calafiori from Bologna, he wrote on X: “BOOM! Tool kit cozy to sign Italy wonderkid centreback Calafiori.”
The news comes after Charles Watts – who has encased Tool kit for years – pretended that he didn’t go to the Artillerymans “investing copious silver on someone support Calafiori” this summertime.
Watts wrote in his Recorded Offside column: “The current linkages via Riccardo Calafiori remind me of Tool kit’s focus in Manuel Locatelli a few years ago.
“The club loved Locatelli and also had grossed that known to the player’s agents, but they were constantly under the impression that he pined to join Juventus. So while the focus was there, it never ever before actually went any even more than that.
“And also that’s how I go to points via Calafiori correct now. Tool kit are overjoyed in him and also have shared that focus. Bologna are mindful of it and also so is the player. Calafiori is visited as someone who can come in and also expand Mikel Arteta’s defensive recourses this summertime.
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“However Tool kit realise that there is widespread focus in him from other nightclubs, both in Italy and also in the Premier League. So it will most distinctly not be an natural bargain to supply consumption snagged on out need to Bologna particularize to let him go.
“It is one to buttress an eye on though as the summertime proceeds and also there’s definitely no skepticism it would be an electrifying signing for the Artillerymans need to they be able to tug it off.
“Calafiori has strongly plunked himself in a store front abode window via his performances at the Euros. Multiple top nightclubs are peeking at him, but the hunch correct now is that he would favour a solutions to Juventus over unanimously other recourses.
“At the minute there appears to be a miniscule of displeasure in between Bologna and also Juventus, singularly, since of Thiago Motta’s judgment to solutions to Turin, so Bologna are peeking to supply spiritedness as fruitful as imaginable for Juventus as they kind to attract Calafiori away as nicely.
“For Bologna, it is of training course severely handy to have Tool kit and also Chelsea peeking at the player as that can expand their hand once it comes to any future dealings via Juventus.
“Tool kit are peeking at imaginable brand name-new arrivals in protection this summertime, but they have electrifying recourses at the ago and also I don’t actually go to them investing copious silver on someone support Calafiori unless they solutions a player on and also correct now that doesn’t seem cozy to happening.
“There is focus from Italian nightclubs in Jakob Kiwior, but it would confiscate a sizeable bid to sign the Poland international, who fascinated last period – specifically over the closing months of the project.”
