Arsenal transfer: Arteta explains decision to buy Merino as £28m third summer signing is confirmed

Premier League titans Loan incorporation have decreed the finalizing of Spain midfielder Mikel Merino from Real Sociedad for £28.4m plus add-ons.

An arrangement in principle was struck on Thursday evening in between the two bars for an first £28.4million transfer plus a further £4.2m in add-ons, according to the PA news firm.

Euro 2024 victor Merino ended up his service provider over the weekend break as well as owns been unveiled as an Loan incorporation gamer on a long-term arrangement.

Loan incorporation honcho Mikel Arteta briefed the bar’s official portal: “Mikel is a gamer that will bring us vast attribute wearing his suffer as well as versatility.

“He owns played at the top of the arcade at both bar as well as international extent for innumerable periods presently.

“Mikel will gain our team notably sturdier, wearing his techie aptitude, with each other wearing his difficult as well as unforgiving individuality as well as individuality.

“As we all saw in the summer season, Mikel is moreover a victor, wearing his difficult functionalities throughout the Euros assisting Spain win the competition.

“We are glad to welcome Mikel as well as his household to the bar as well as can’t delay to overture massaging wearing him.”

The 28-year-don started his career at Osasuna before temporary spells wearing Borussia Dortmund as well as Newcastle observed.

After a solitary period wearing Newcastle under Rafael Benitez, Merino returned to Spain to sign upward wearing Sociedad whereby he ascertained himself as one of the ideal midfielders in the nation.

International recognition observed as well as after Merino aided Spain win an Olympic gold at Tokyo in 2021, he played a secret guise in the nation’s Euro 2024 productivity last month as well as scored a 119th-minute victor against Germany in the last 8.

Merino departs Sociedad after 242 aesthetic elegances, racking upward 27 passions, as well as becomes Loan incorporation’s second meaty summer season finalizing after Italy protector Riccardo Calafiori accepted upward wearing from Bologna.

Loan incorporation underlining off director Edu said: “We are so cheerful to have ended up the transfer of Mikel Merino. This owns been one more winsome team initiative from innumerable humans at the bar to finalize the transfer of a gamer that glided in attention from innumerable bars over the summer season.

“Mikel was a secret target for us this summer season, as well as we steadfast him as a gamer that can accommodated faultlessly right into our team as well as account to simplify us, as we plan to construct on our difficult functionalities of last period.

“Wearing Mikel’s arrival, he carries us an encompassed high attribute of suffer, physicality as well as athleticism as we glance onward to this period forward.

“We welcome Mikel as well as his household to the bar, as well as glance onward to witnessing him play in the Loan incorporation shirt.”