REPORTS: Saudi Arabia are set to hand Arsenal a ‘perfect’ transfer window after a whopping sum of almost £130M was offered to Arsenal in exchange for FOUR Arsenal stars- No other PL club earned up to 100M from sales this summer- Mikel Arteta to decide
Arsenal needs a Saudi Arabian benediction to raise £130m and let out 4 players.
For Mikel Arteta’s side, the Gooners may now be looking up to sales to Saudi Arabia like those done by the Merseyside club Liverpool.
For Liverpool, this translates into an amount not less than £52million earned from Saudi Arabia by selling their skipper Jordan Henderson to the Middle East and that of his midfield partner, Fabinho, a few days ago-an envy that their rivals, including the Arsenal ones, likely wish to have too.
Both are on the downside of their careers, yet earned him a sizeable joint fee of 52 million pounds that Jurgen Klopp will go and spend again in his squad. Certainly, the Gunners will have had to part with some of their fringe players before spending further this summer, with an outlay of £200m already recorded.
and Delphi Sport analyzes four players on whose chances Arteta and Edu hope Saudi Arabia intensifies its interest to attain the whopping sum of £130 million.
Kieran Tierney
Longer Arteta has been at the club, more apparent is the fact that Kieran Tierney has slipped down the ranking as Oleksandr Zinchenko and others have constantly competed as left-back. The quality of the Scot is evident, but since the Spanish boss wants a defender who is more at home inverting in midfield, Tierney will get opportunities elsewhere.
Seemingly Newcastle and Celtic though were supposedly involved without either party breaking the bank for the man at a price of £30m. But it would be a drop in the ocean for Saudi clubs, who don’t mind splashing out cash on their established stars, likewise Tierney.
Albert Sambi Lokonga
Having captured neither the manager’s approval nor sufficed with an overwhelming performance, Albert Sambi Lokonga will now not go with the US pre-season tour squad but is finally headed to leave the Emirates this summer, with Burnley being the most probable destination to link with his former Anderlecht boss Vincent Kompany.
However, it is uncertain if Arsenal would want to sell the young Belgian to either have to offer a fee or whether this would be a loan or not from such a deal taking Lokonga into Turf Moor.
If the latter happens to be the case, then Saudi teams would blow Burnley out of the water by helping Arsenal to recover most of the £15m Arsenal spent to originally get him back in 2021, as they recently turned down a £7m offer in January from Monaco for Lokonga. However, it could take a price nearer to £10m to convince them to let go of the 23-year-old.
Thomas Partey
The transfer attraction of Thomas Partey has, however, reached the Middle East: Declan Rice’s tandem has jeopardized the Ghanaian’s future with the club. Will the Gunners procure him a sweet contract offer upon elapsing of the two-year retained contract, since he has now entered the threshold of early thirties?
Most likely, this would be the last year that the Gunners would get a fat price for their midfielder, which would likely be through Saudi clubs but not excluding Juventus. And a bid of £40m could be enough to tempt Arsenal to sell, similar effort that took Fabinho to Al-Ittihad.
Folarin Balogun. A good example to show how Folarin Balogun might yet be leaving from the Emirates this year is though Gabriel Jesus is ruled out at the beginning of the season due to injury; he just wants to be a first-choice striker with some other place and does not want another loan-after the loan spell last season with Reims.
Inter Milan’s Arsenal asking price of £50million proved to be too rich for them, with the club instead turning its investigation over to West Ham’s Gianluca Scamacca. However, as he is one of the hottest commodities around Europe, he would certainly also get the interest of the Saudi teams in the event that they would like the idea of grabbing a sought-after Arsenal striker.
