Arsenal is still trying to add to the Mikel Arteta team while the summer transfer window is approaching Deadline Day, with Bayer Leverkusen -defender Piero Hincapie their priority
Arsenal has been extremely busy in the summer transfer window and are not yet ready because the Deadline Day is approaching quickly.
The Gunners team has been overhauled, with Kepa Arrizabalaga, Martin Zubimendi, Christian Norgaard, Noni Madueke, Crithian Mosquera, Viktor Gyokeres and Ebereechi Eze who all participate in the side of Mikel Arteta. That costs around £ 260 million and, unlike their rivals, Arsenal has difficulty selling.
Reiss Nelson, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Fabio Vieira continue to find contracted players with the Emirates and the Gunners hope to find buyers in the coming days. In the meantime, there is an incoming deal on the maps, while sports director Andrea Berta continues his hard work.
Arteta's Kant has made a perfect start of their Premier League campaign, because they try to go better than the second place of the past three seasons. They are confronted with Liverpool on Anfield on Sunday and hope that their new signing sessions can make a difference. Here the football mirrors the last deals in the pipeline.
LEVERKUSEN Respond to Hincapie -Interest
Piero Hincapie has emerged in recent days as a transfer target for Arsenal, with the Bayer Leverkusen star to strengthen the defense of Arteta. As Mirror Football reported on Tuesday, Leverkusen plays hard ball about the 23-year-old, who is under contract until June 2029.
The German side has Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Granit Xhaka lost to the Premier League this summer, so there is no pressure to sell hincapie. He has a release clause of £ 52 million (€ 60 million) and Leverkusen will not admit in negotiations.
The sports director Simon Rolfes of the club has now publicly discussed the situation. He said: “We still have not received an official offer from a club, so he is our player and [we] Would like to see that he will continue with us. '
Kiwior -Decay explained
Jakub Kiwior has agreed a five -year contract with Porto and would like to leave Arsenal, where he is struggling for playing time. It is his approaching departure that the interest of the Gunners encouraged in Hincapie, but things have not yet been sorted.
Mirror Football reported that Porto wanted to fly on a private jet to Poland International on Tuesday evening for a medical jet, but that didn't happen. That's because Arsenal has not yet punished his exit.
Arsenal still likes to do business this is only an administrative delay and porto pays € 27 million (£ 23 million) for the 25-year-old defender. His output could accelerate the negotiations with Leverkusen about hincapie.
Hincapie Deal interrogated
Arsenal legend Nigel Winterburn has disputed that the need to spend so much money on a backup defender, given that Arsenal Mosquera has already signed from Valencia. “It is one to look at, but it seems that it might be a long shot that came up,” he told Metro.
“If it happened, I am sure it would mean that Kiwior would go. But Mosquera arrived and he must play in that position and develop.
“Maybe they think they need one, but 60 million [euros] To sit on your couch? It seems to me a lot of money and it would probably go a bit against what Arsenal did in the past. Let's look and see, but if it happened, it would be a big declaration of intent. “