Ben Jacobs has claimed that Youri Tielemans has agreed personal terms with Arsenal ahead of a possible move to Arsenal this summer.
The Belgium international is believed to be eyeing a move away from Leicester this summer, and with 12 months remaining on his current contract he may be able to orchestrate his desired transfer.
Arsenal have been the side most strongly linked with his signature, and it has even been claimed that we made contact with his representatives ahead of a proposed move this summer, and that our failure to secure Champions League football may have dampened our position.
CBS journalist Jacobs now adds that we have agreed terms on a summer move, but we are yet to make an offer to his current club Leicester.
“It’s incorrect to say anything other than that Arsenal have advanced things with Tielemans in the last seven days,” he told the Football Terrace. “The feeling was that Arsenal would swoop in after the international break and get it done. Instead they progressed things with Vieira, but Tielemans is still on their radar.”
“Arsenal have put in a heck of a lot of work on this deal, dating back a year, they’ve agreed terms with the player, but at no point have they tabled an offer with Leicester City. Arsenal always felt they wanted to pay £25m all in, but Leicester want closer to £30m, £31m or £32m.”
“It’s incorrect to say anything other than that Arsenal have advanced things with Tielemans in the last seven days. The feeling was that Arsenal would swoop in after the international break and get it done. Instead they progressed things with Vieira, but Tielemans is still on their radar.”
“Arsenal have put in a heck of a lot of work on this deal, dating back a year, they’ve agreed terms with the player, but at no point have they tabled an offer with Leicester City. Arsenal always felt they wanted to pay £25m all in, but Leicester want closer to £30m, £31m or £32m.”
Even after the signings of Marquinhos and Fabio Vieira, I still feel like our midfield is an area which we could improve on this summer, and I would love for that addition to be Tielemans. We still appear to be in the driving seat with this deal, and the club does seem to be working hard and fast to wrap up their signings quickly, although we are still waiting for a couple of important deals to be completed.
Would deals for Tielemans and Gabriel Jesus mean that our transfer window has been a 10/10 no matter what else happened?
Patrick
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Well to be fair it’s all going to depend on how we decide to set the team up
seems highly unlikely that this will get done after the Vieira signing…not unusual that teams would agree personal terms, then never follow through, for a variety of reasons…I would have preferred this deal over the Vieira gig, as he’s proven himself in the PL already, but I’m assuming that Vieira was substantially cheaper, wage-wise, and far thirstier for this particular opportunity…I would suspect that until someone is outgoing, no more MD will be incoming…imagine if we had simply shipped Xhaka immediately then targeted Phillips…we could have offered him competitive wages and starting time assurances, unlike City, and actually had a DM on staff
Good player who would improve us.
Apparently we did agree personal terms through a third party weeks a go, there have been talks with his representatives but that where it ends. Have we signed Viera in his place or are we signing both. Both is ok but i would have prefered Teilemans over Viera. I hope it is both but they wouldn’t be my first choices.
Such a cry babies u both are. If Arsenal will buy Teilemans also you won’t be happy and you will take some other name. Viera could be a very good player for us who is yet to a kick a ball and you want someone else just because they are proven in EPL. Henry was also not EPL proven but rest is history. There are many good players who were unproven once but doing pretty well right now in EPL or any other league. Criticism should be balanced not always blaming others for everything…
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What!!!!!
We need players who have proven themselves in premier league. I know they won’t come cheaper but also put in to account the outcomes of cheap players from other leagues. the likes of pepe,lucas,sokratis, macros to mention but afew.why can’t arteta point areas or positions to be addressed like 8,9,3 even if players are expensive just address one or two areas put money period.
I don’t have a great feeling about Vieira. I think Partey will miss a large number of games and as we saw last season during the run-in Elneney can not fill Partey’s boots long-term.
Vieira seems like a different player to Tielemans or Partey so we are still light in central midfield IMO.
If we don’t have funds to buy Tielemans I would sell Partey to raise funds.
Lol. You’re nuts. Partey is critical to Arsenal’s setup. Wont be selling in a million years.
Lots Partey will retire at Arsenal
You may all say what you think about Fabio ,but the truth is we really need Your I Tielemans more than him…Youri can cover up when Partey is absent
Tielemans is a crucial player, very important piece in the midfield. We are light in midfield and inspite of adding Vieira Arsenal must sign Tielemans, he is simply of a different quality and offers so much. Every great team has strong quality midfielders, Fabinho, Kante, Rodri, Buskets, Cassemiro, etc.etc. The midfield has to be both, defensive and offensive and Tielemans is one who has both the skillsets. He plays along with one of the best midfielders in the world, KDB, in his national team so must have learnt a lot from the master. The Tielemans deal is a no brainer for me.
100% agreed
I would prefer that we took Tielemans over Raphinha to be honest because we already have good attacking midfielders in Saka, Smith Rowe, Martinelli etc so we could do with a defensive midfielder to protect the defence more. Smith Rowe has lost some of his spark recently and even Saka has’nt scored as much as when he started the season. I think we missed a striker or target man up front big time because we were making lots of chances but not finishing them off.
Johnny, maybe we are having a complete overhaul because contrary to what some people think, we massively under achieved last year. There will be some big in comings but some BIG outgoings. Thats looking quite obvious.
Tielemans would be great in our squad to gain and retain possession. Raphinha too would easily improve us. Of course Saka can play on the left plus in the middle. Get a new full back and keep Leno and we could be good to go.
Yeah, keep all the players and buy loads more. The epl must have given us license to submit 35 players in our squad as well as not minding the home grown rules. Sometimes you people talk without thinking.
Tielemans isn’t a DM, anyone who thinks that hasn’t watched him play at all. He is an attacking midfielder, he isn’t the greatest at defending or tackling. The season just past proves that. However, he is a major upgrade on Xhaka and co. He would upgrade the left-sided number 8 position, but I would get Zinchenko if we’re talking about all-round play (attacking and defending).
Thank you Joo people just mind saying what they don’t know tielemans is a constant attacking midfielder not a blocker is just like a Ramsey at arsenal
Any upgrade on Xhaka is a good starting point
I think arsenal is just keeping teilemans as their last option in case their main target didn’t go well. If he is so important they would have signed him even b4 viera.
Tielemans is the best spice for arsenal this term he can compliment the squad depth and build up the right chemistry in the middle of the park.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I always understood a buying club had first to agree a transfer with the selling club, before agreeing terms with the player. I know it commonly happpens, but surely it is not ethical or even allowed?
I may be out of date of course. Ashley Cole and his deceit with Chelsea comes to mind. What a toad he was!
i dont think any club “follows the rules” anymore. And it seems like it is so regular at this point that nobody even reports it. When player power was big is when most club complained.
Partey comes off with injuries too often because he’s the only mobile strong midfielder we have, but with Vieira, Raphinha/Saka as AMFs running riots in the midfield, Partey would be most effective,
I believe it’s the reason Arteta wants this guys,
Personally I do not fancy Tielemans, would prefer We get Douglas Luis or loftus cheek,
Tielmans deal will happen later in the window arsenal aren’t in a rush because there aren’t a lot of noise surrounding the player like jesus and raphinia so arsenal can focus on the 2 Brazilians first then go back for Tielmans after
At some point we will have to sell before buying players. There are at least 8 players we need to find solutions for whether loans or permanent departures. Torreira, Bellerin, Pepe out will probably take priority after we sign Gabriel Jesus. I wouldn’t expect another incoming for a while after next weeks new signing.
There is a lot of brinkmanship going on behind the scenes RSH.