Juventus is the latest club to show interest in Riccardo Calafiori as the Italian continues to impress for Arsenal in the Premier League. The Gunners regard him as one of their most important players, underlining his growing influence within the squad and the consistency of his performances at the highest level of English football.
Despite his importance to Arsenal, there is increasing competition within the squad. Piero Hincapie has demonstrated that he is capable of performing effectively as the team’s first-choice left back, and the Ecuadorian is working diligently to secure that position regularly. This internal competition has inevitably attracted attention from other clubs, who are now monitoring Calafiori’s situation more closely.
Rising Interest in Calafiori
Arsenal remains firm in its position and does not wish to sell the Italian defender or any of its current first-team regulars. Nevertheless, Calafiori’s performances have drawn significant interest from several leading Italian clubs. Inter Milan had been linked with a move for him not long ago, highlighting the level of demand for a player of his quality and potential.
Juventus Monitoring Situation
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Juventus has now added Calafiori to its shortlist. The Serie A side considers him one of the finest Italian talents available and is eager to strengthen its squad by adding more domestic players to form a stronger core within the team.
Juventus is keen to ensure that he joins them, and it remains to be seen whether they can present Arsenal with an offer that would be difficult to refuse. While the Gunners are expected to insist that he is not for sale, every player has a price in modern football.
The key question, therefore, is whether Juventus or Inter Milan can afford to meet the valuation required to persuade Arsenal to part with one of its most valued assets.
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One thing we learned from the Southhampton debacle, is the fact that we cannot depend on MLS as a stand in LB.Along with White and Jesus he was extremely poor and i would not be at all surprised if these three players were moved on in the close season along with one or two others.
@Grandad MLS is not an LB, and Mikel is ruining this boy’s career. How many more players are we going to let this man take down at the expense of Arteta gaining experience on the job?
God help Dowman when Arteta coaches him for a year,
gizzle,
Further to you’re post, I’d like to add that Arteta is not about the Academy at all.
Look at the way he treated Smith Row after his injury. He had a short memory. In Arteta’s first season, Smith Row scored 10 goals I believe.
Then you’ve got his distrust of Nelson, who was meant to be Saka’s back up. Why they gave Nelson a new contract is beyond me, as Arteta clearly didn’t trust him, hence he’s been shipped out to Brentford.
We’ve seen what’s happening with Nwaneri, and to be honest, both Nwaneri and Lewis Skelly only got their chances through injury’s to other players otherwise they would have still been in the back ground. Now they barely get a game. Although again Nwaneri’s is now loaned out.
I only hope that Dowman the one who really does look the real deal is looked after better.
But can we stop with this myth that Arteta is all for the Academy, his actions regarding them tells a different story.
And please don’t come back at me with but a lot of them train with the first team, and the point is?.
or he’s not very good ?
just because he’s English and from.the Academy doesn’t mean he’s good enough
here’s the reality ….he came in last season and made lots of mistakes so this season has been dropped for better players
Dan,
Whether Lewis Skelly is good enough or not, my point was that Arteta is not about the Academy as some poster’s would have you believe.
Nwaneri and Lewis Skelly got their chance through circumstance, not because Arteta wanted to pick them.
This is true but when it came down to it, were Skelly or Nwaneri really ready? I think they’re both almost there but don’t you think they need to be right on it?
SueP,
For me Nwaneri was just discarded by Arteta. Looking at some of the games that Nwaneri either started or came on from the bench he was trying to make things happen.
But Arteta would persist with Odegaard instead. Now people think I’ve got it in for Odegaard, and I’ll admit I don’t rate him as highly as some.
But don’t tell me that Odegaard’s less than impressive performances still warranted him being constantly picked over Nwaneri. I f nothing else, just like Max Dowman now, Nwaneri at least tried to make things happen.
That cannot be said of our Captain sadly.
yeah I agree and remember it’s not just to play
it’s to play at a level where your trying to win a title
Maitaland Miles , Smith Rowe Nketoah and Reiss Nelson were all given chances
Nwaneri was given chance last January and by CL semi final Arteta no longer trusted him
we went backwards with Skelly at lb ….this idea he was the next Ashley Cole was what we wanted to believe
to quote Jose M
‘ look now Where they play , when they play …..if they play ‘
Grandad,
I said before the game I hoped that Lewis Skelly would get a chance in midfield. Now having started the game at left back, he did find his way into midfield on quite a few occasions, but much to my disappointment his control when receiving the ball let him down as well as him being far to easily brushed off the ball.
Very Disappointing.