Canada’s ahead #10 Jonathan David celebrates alongside teammates their victory after a penalty shoot-out through the Conmebol 2024 Copa America match quarter-final soccer match between Venezuela and Canada at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on July 5, 2024. (Photograph by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Arsenal are holding shut tabs on Lille striker Jonathan David as he nears the top of his contract with the Ligue 1 membership, with little signal that he’s going to pen a brand new deal.
Sources with a detailed understanding of the scenario have knowledgeable CaughtOffside that the Gunners have David as a reputation excessive up on their listing of targets as they proceed to maintain an eye fixed out for alternatives to strengthen up entrance.
The precedence for Arsenal stays Benjamin Sesko, however the RB Leipzig striker is anticipated to draw an extended listing of suitors from the Premier League and elsewhere in Europe subsequent summer time, so it is sensible for membership bosses on the Emirates Stadium to maintain an eye fixed out for options.
David is a kind of, with the Canada worldwide additionally impressing different prime golf equipment in latest occasions, with Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan additionally understood to be monitoring him for the time being.
David switch might liberate former Arsenal goal Vlahovic
Sources have additionally advised that David transferring to Juventus might liberate former Arsenal goal Dusan Vlahovic to depart the membership, although it’s not but clear if the Gunners stay serious about signing the Serbia worldwide regardless of well-documented earlier efforts.
Vlahovic has not been at his greatest for Juve, so David could possibly be an improve, although it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if Serie A can show as tempting to the 24-year-old because the Premier League, to not point out the possibility to reside in London.
Many fashionable footballers will take into consideration life-style off the pitch in addition to what golf equipment provide on it, in order that’s at all times prone to be an essential think about Arsenal’s favour.
For now, David has not selected his future and is known to be holding his choices open and taking his time, with a brand new contract with Lille additionally not being totally dominated out, with the French facet additionally open to negotiating a launch clause in any potential new deal.
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