Arsenal are near agreeing their subsequent deal of the summer time, with Jamie Gittens near shifting to the Emirates Stadium.
With loanee Raheem Sterling returning to Chelsea this summer time, Gabriel Jesus nonetheless a long-term absentee following an anterior cruciate ligament harm and Leandro Trossard rumoured to be leaving this summer time, the Gunners could also be about to make a number of attacking signings in a bid to result in extra targets.
No Arsenal participant has netted greater than 9 within the Premier League this time period, with the group as an entire scoring simply 64 – some 27 fewer than final season, with simply three video games remaining, highlighting the necessity for attacking reinforcements.
Arsenal main the way in which for Jamie Gittens deal
Mikel Arteta desires attacking funding (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Having left Manchester Metropolis’s youth setup to hitch Borussia Dortmund as a 16-year-old in the course of the pandemic, Jamie Gittens has adopted within the footsteps of the likes of Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham to determine himself in BVB’s first group.
Final week, it was reported by German publication Bild Chelsea have been honing in on Gittens, however Arsenal have now stepped up within the race for the star, who shares an agent with Bukayo Saka.
Gittens is managed by the identical agent as Saka (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
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Gittens may nicely play on both flank for Arteta with a price of round £43 million touted for the star – and with Gittens stated to be incomes €57,000-a-week in accordance with Capology
FourFourTwo understands {that a} deal is way from accomplished at this stage and that although the groundwork has been put in, Dortmund are reluctant to think about any exit till the tip of the season, with the Champions League but to be sewn up.
Moreover, Die Schwarzgelben sporting director Lars Ricken has debunked the claims that Gittens has requested to go away, telling DAZN through Get Soccer Information , “A particularly sturdy relationship of belief has grown there” between participant and membership and that the younger English expertise, “identifies 100 per cent with BVB.”
Gittens is highly-rated in Germany (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Whereas Arsenal do have a robust curiosity within the starlet, the Gunners could have different targets at this stage – and it must be thought of that early groundwork to signal Gittens could be a smokescreen from new sporting director Andrea Berta.
Gittens is value €50m, as per Transfermarkt Paris Saint-Germain when Champions League motion resumes this week.
