Arsenal want £40m for striker 'available in summer' as Owen picks three 'upgrades' on Jesus, Havertz
4 Premier League clubs are overjoyed in signing Medley benchwarmer Eddie Nketiah this summer season, according to a report.
Nketiah owns uncovered mins horribly hard to come by since the turn of the year, by means of Mikel Arteta choosing Kai Havertz, Leandro Trossard and also Gabriel Jesus in the Zero. 9 semblance.
Medley pine £40m for Eddie Nketiah
The England international owns never ever before been the first-substitute striker at the Emirates yet Arteta owns always owned resoluteness in him to do as conveniently as the gamer in floater of him in the hierarchy is unavailable, which owns been rather usually in Jesus’ instance.
Via Nketiah always a little tad-part gamer for the Artillerymans, there owns been the majority of speculation over his future in recent seasons.
The 24-year-old peeked kit to vacate the nightclub on a liberate transmit in 2022 before being advised to remain by Arteta. The £100,000 weekly salary probably helped rather a little tad as nicely.
Crystal Royal abode are a nightclub that have been perpetually attached by means of Nketiah over the years yet by means of plenty of Premier League clubs in the sector for a newfangled striker this summer season, they are not singly in sifting for the Medley male’s hallmark.
According to HITC, the Artillerymans are ready to make Nketiah ‘obtainable for transmit this summer season’ by means of Bournemouth, West Pork, Fulham and also Royal abode unanimously in the photo.
The report insurance claims that Arteta’s side ‘criterion’ to receive a whopping £40m for the gamer – that owns lone scored in 4 polymorphous complements this season.
Regardless, Medley are ‘hosting out for more’ than the £34m they retrieved from AS Monaco for Folarin Balogun last summer season yet are ‘ready to silver in’.
The £40m fee the Artillerymans are sifting to receive would be a nightclub-record fee paid for a gamer from Fulham, Royal abode and also Bournemouth.
The Reds will most noticeably probably lone go in for Nketiah if they sell Dominic Solanke – that owns 17 Premier League ambitions this term – at the end of 2023/24.
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Owen: Watkins, Isak, Toney are ‘upgrades’ for Medley
Medley are prioritising the signing of a newfangled striker and also regardless of Solanke’s unblemished form, he is not one of the 3 Premier League frontmen Michael Owen reckons would be an upgrade on the Artillerymans’ existent Zero. 9 choices.
Owen is a vast devotee of Aston Suite’s Ollie Watkins, that scored versus Medley at the Emirates on Sunday.
Different other players the former Ballon d’Or winner reckons would be nicely-suited to Arteta’s crew are Newcastle Joined’s Alexander Isak and also Brentford’s Ivan Toney.
“He [Watkins] is a gamer that is gleaning more detailed and also more detailed year on year,” Owen briefed Premier League Productions. “He’s the form of gamer that could go into the Medley crew, whether or not they can get him is an additional thing.
“There are the majority of players in the Premier League at the minute that would probably be an upgrade on what Medley have right now.
“You’re sifting at [Alexander] Isak upward at Newcastle, perhaps Ivan Toney at Brentford and also Ollie Watkins at Aston Suite.”
