Arsenal’s fans have been given hope that the Gunners will sign Houssem Aouar this summer after the midfielder’s brother was reportedly spotted in London.
The Frenchman has been a subject of long-term interest from Arsenal and they closed in on signing him last summer.
The deal never went through and they moved for Thomas Partey instead.
The midfielder is now expected to leave the Ligue 1 side and Arsenal has been placed as his number one suitor.
Gooners have been quietly optimistic that their club would sign him this summer and they have now been given even more reasons to believe that he would join them after his brother, Ibrahim, was spotted in London, as reported by Sun Sports.
The report links to a tweet by AFC Stuff which shows an image in an Instagram story, reportedly that of Aouar’s brother.
It seems Ibrahim is in London for talks with Arsenal and that has excited the club’s fanbase.
The 23-year-old would be a fine addition to an Arsenal midfield that already has the impressive Thomas Partey and Sun Sports curated a response of one of the club’s fans to the image.
The fan tweeted: “He’s house hunting for his brother/client. Welcome to Arsenal.”
I was excited about Aour last season. Not so sure how I feel about him today. One concern I have is that he had Covid and complained about fatigue. If we do agree on a deal for him, we better make sure he doesn’t suffer from “long Covid”.
As we saw many times before, recently with Pepe, foreign players often need at least one season to adjust to the PL. Is there no PL proven alternative?
Also, at the moment it looks like Xhaka might well be leaving, doesn’t this make Bissouma or another PL-proven player a greater priority?
Somewhat OT : I would probably be more relaxed about our business dealings, if Edu was more experienced.
Agree with you. Why is our business dealings handled by Edu? What has his footballing skill to do with it?
This eerily reminds me of our protractive acquisition of Laca, who peaked before arriving at our club…now the fundamental difference, or the potential silver linings of this situation to that, is that Aouar is several years younger now than Laca was at the time of his move, so he could plausibly regain his previous form under the right conditions, thereby raising his ceiling once again and that we would potentially be paying substantially, albeit partially for footballing reasons, whereas the opposite occurred with Laca…personally I’m not a big fan of returning too often for a player, unless that player has expressed his desires publicly about playing in North London…otherwise it seems, rightly or wrongly, as a little “farther down our list” desperate
Even if this rumour is true TRVL this again would for me show that our club ,be it owner ,board members down to edu and the manager are a bunch of complete morons .
Having watched a few games this past season being nosey to what he could do and I’ve come to the conclusion that he would be a bargain at about 5 million sterling.
A complete waste of resources and another player you IMO would fade straight into our lovely midfield (jokes aside )that wouldn’t once again make the grade we should be looking at .
All lovely to watch ,give him 2 games in the PL and he would look lost .
IMO we should be going for power and raw ability not another fancy midget who will get bullied as soon as he comes against the first championship lvl player and want to get back across the channel as soon as possible.
I agree in that if this rumour had surfaced again, with some modicum of factual basis, in the months leading up to the off-season, I would at least give our green thumb gang of misfits the benefit of the doubt, as it would seem to suggest they had a clear vision and he was identified as a necessary cog…of course, this wasn’t the case whatsoever and as such this simply reeks as a somewhat desperate, yet much more affordable than a year prior, gamble of sorts…I too would like a more steely-type midfielder, albeit if I was convinced of Aouar’s “unlocking” abilities I would take this more diminutive option
@TRVL completely agree ,but Fck me bro it takes me 3-4 times to take in how you write ,and by no means is that a criticism of how you post maybe it’s my average IQ but I’ve never come across someone who gets their point across as you do ,I said the other week how we had fallen out before (which I apologise for ,hope your mum hasn’t put that pillow over your head yet )but I do admire one of a kind writing .
Hope that comes across as me being envious and not being a cOck .👍
Cheers bud…water under the proverbial bridge…besides, I enjoy a good back-and-forth no matter how cutting it might get at times…for me those late night chirpfests were f’ing glorious
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I don’t understand transfer business of this club. I don’t see him fitting well in our system. It’s like a gamble. I think we should look for a decent midfielder who can score from distance. We need someone special to lift us up. I don’t like aubameyang as well. Chelsea sold giroud for 2 million to milan. I would love to bring him home. At least giroud is a presence unlike our other strikers. Ramsey? yes i want him back but problem is arteta.
why is our business so slow and dull I think we should bring back David Dean back as sporting director
Can we just have 17 solid player plus promoted Lads in the shape of: Leno,Runars,Niles,Hector,White,Gabriel,Mari,Nuno,Tierney,Rob,Chambers,Soares;
Partey,Albert,Xhaka,Locateli/Maddison,Saka,Rowe,Willian,Pepe,Lacaz,Martineli,Auba,Reis,Neves,Toreira,Willock!