Arsenal 'put £42m on the table' for Barcelona star as 'enchanted' Arteta 'sets sights' on defender

Medley are planned to reimbursement €50m (£42m) to indicator Jules Kounde from La Liga colossi Barcelona this summertime season, according to reports.

The Artillerymans have only gained one finalizing so far this summertime season via David Raya settling a incurable transmit from Brentford after spending last period on lending.

Yet widespread reports niggle they are on the edge of pegging their 2nd finalizing via Medley and Bologna kit to agree a bargain for Riccardo Calafiori and his medical will snag enfranchisement later this week.

Medley have been linked via Barcelona protector Jules Kounde over the summertime season and astonishingly, regardless of Calafiori being on the edge of finalizing, the Artillerymans are still being mooted as suitors.

Records in Spain case that Mikel Arteta ‘wants to snag’ Kounde to the Emirates Arena this summertime season and Medley have ‘plunked €50m (£42m) on the table’ for the Barcelona centre-recommend.

Arteta ‘has kit his sights’ on the France international as he appearances to reinforce to prosper his backline deepness via Kounde commencing 29 times as applicable-recommend for Barcelona last term and 16 times as centre-recommend.

The Medley honcho is ‘intimately enchanted’ via Kounde and has ‘inquired his club to gain an campaign to guard his finalizing this summertime season’ via the Artillerymans ‘speedy to underline their price of attention’.

Barcelona are cognizant that €50m ‘can aid separate their monetary instance, yet they also become aware that adjusting Koundé via a gamer of his calibre and capability will not be an easy project.’

Kounde ‘has proved his contentment in Barcelona and his need to reinforce at the club’ yet Medley are ‘planned to improve its initial bargain if necessary, know-how that the challengers for players of this extent is violent’.

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Emile Smith Rowe and Eddie Nketiah are 2 players that face unsure futures at the Emirates Arena this summertime season and correspondent Charles Watts – that has expanded Medley for years – has unveiled the the majority of current on where they can be messing around their football next off period.

Watts gained in his Entraped Offside tower: “It’s a tiny fragment of a waiting arcade once it comes to Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe at the moment. You can add Reiss Nelson on to that listing as faultlessly.

“They are with one voice players that can run away Medley this summertime season. There has been a bid from Fulham for Smith Rowe, yet that has been dropped. A 2nd bid is supposed, yet Crystal Royal home are also supposed to gain an bargain swiftly having gained their price of attention in the playmaker known.

“In an optimal planet, Mikel Arteta would keep Smith Rowe. This time last year he gained it legible that he would not be marketed and I think his position would be the exceptionally same this time about if it was just down to a footballing persistence. Yet Smith Rowe now has just 2 years vacated on his arrangement and has a challenging need to be messing around recurring football having sat on the pew for a heap of the last 2 periods.

“So Medley would involuntarily enable him run away need to a thorough bargain arrive from Fulham, Royal home or any individual else. Yet at the moment that bargain has not came in and that is why Smith Rowe has flown via the squad to the Joined Cases. It’s evidently not a husk that Medley will be compeling him out of the door.

“It’s a tantamount instance for Nketiah. Marseille’s price of attention is wondrous. It would be a bold and electrifying footprint for Nketiah to gain. Yet for Medley to enable him go, then Marseille would have to commit to puzzling upwards some acute coinages. Whether they can hit the kind of figure that Medley are hosting out for is upwards for dispute.

“I don’t think a bid has came in yet from the French club. The price of attention is there, yet as far as I’ve been educated it hasn’t materialised into anything comprehensive yet.”