Arsenal has been handed a boost in their bid to keep Gabriel Magalhaes at the club amidst a recent interest from Barcelona.
The Brazilian has become one of the club’s key men in recent campaigns, and he has already formed a solid partnership with Ben White at the back for the Gunners.
However, recently, reports emerged that he is attracting the attention of Barcelona, and the Catalans will look to add him to their squad soon.
When Barca wants your player, you should be worried because they are one of the most attractive sides in the world.
But Arsenal doesn’t need to because Gabriel is happy in London, and he recently confirmed it.
The former Lille man told Premier League Productions as quoted by The Evening Standard: ‘Well in my first season I certainly learnt a lot.
”It’s been a real challenge here and I am more and more settled every day. I feel better and better with each passing game. At the same time, we know we all can’t be perfect in every match. We do make mistakes.
‘But I feel good, I feel at home at Arsenal. It’s a great squad to be a part of and together I am sure we can achieve a lot. I am very happy here.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
Keeping our best players will be one of the most important things that we do in the coming summers.
If we keep them and add better players to other positions, we will return to the glory days just as we want.
However, if we don’t do that, we would keep “rebuilding” for decades to come.
Gabriel i think will force a move away in the summer, along with a few more, some already having done so. Arteta has identified his own type of players and those signed in the last 5 years not by his regime are generally not his type. I do think we have a good chance of losing, Lacca, Holding, Gabriel, Partey, Tierney, Xhaka, Pepe, Nketiah and Saliba. There will be interest in them and they will all have a price. Some obviously free.
Let’s hope he stays along with the rest of the squad & build something special, with a few top signings we are not far away.
Yes we are struggling now as we have the youngest, so inexperinced and smallest squad in the league this season and to be honest challenging for the Top4 was never a target at the start of October. The target has changed now and its maybe just a step too far too quickly for us but next season I belive we will be a different animal regardless of UCL or not.
If we were to add some real quality in certain areas to this talented young team we would have a real team challenging in a couple of seasons, the gunners will have learned alot more than what was suppose to be taught over the course of this season. That will be vital for next season.
We have Laca, Eddie, Matteo, Dino, Hector, Elneny, Niles & Possibly Leno, Pepe, Xhaka & Nelson all leaving. Saliba should be returning along with a few Academy players that will be called up to the main squad for the season as we will be in some sort of European football plus all the English competitions to play for, we will need a big squad with a few top additions.
Now imagine adding the likes of Darwin Nunez, Cody Gakpo, Teilimans, Renato Sanches with Turner, Saliba & another defensive player to this group. Wouldn’t be a bad bet for Top4 or even more.
Things are low now but on the bugger scale we are in good shape all round the club. Mikel has to now show what he’s made of as he seems the only one not learning on the job… he may be the odd one out as he has done so much behind the scenes, maybe that’s where he is best suited like he was with Pep.
Arsenal are going to be very busy this summer and hope we get it right
Why Arteta not playing Gabriela M on the left back and put White and Rob on central defence?