Arsenal might now have a better chance to sign Benfica’s midfield prodigy Joao Neves. There are two reasons how the North Londoners could complete the transaction: to offer the player a good wage package and to send Benfica a tempting offer.
Of course, after demonstrating that he aligns with their project, Arsenal could easily convince Neves that they are the right club for him by paying him a much-improved Premier League pay deal.
Aside from the salary, if Arsenal can simply make a convincing offer to Benfica, they can easily close a deal. According to A Bola, Benfica have supposedly offered the midfield prodigy a new deal. That new deal had a £128 million release clause, and while the wage offer was more than the one he’s now on, it was much below the young midfielder’s expectations and he declined to sign the new deal outright.
With that out of the way, it is further claimed that the Portuguese club is in need of a major sale this summer, and while they had intended to cash in on defender Antonio Silva, he does not attract the high prices they expected, leaving them with little alternative but to be open to selling Neves, although they are unlikely to get anywhere near Neves buy-out clause.
So the ball is in Arsenal’s court; if Neves is the No. 6 who they believe can complement Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice in their engine room, there is a path to take.
Darren N
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He’s a bit small, I have been told and runs about a lot. A bit like a Yorkshire terrier. Does he have the pedigree for this Arsenal Side. I thought Arsenal would prefer a tougher midfielder like Fulham’s João Palhinha. Although aged 28, he is probably the best defensive midfielder in the premier with twice as many average tackles won than any other midfielder.
We could get him cheap due to his age and this will allow us a couple of years to train Myles Lewis Skelly aged 17 into the senior first team squad. Sounds like we could get the best of both worlds that way.
Palhinha is on his way to Bayern, according to Fabrizio Romano.
I say get Fofana from Monaco cause I do not trust him (neves) enough for the epl. he is small and for that position i just think we will be losing physicality in the midfield.
and get Sesko and a winger to help out Saka for godsake. I still like kudus from west ham, he can only get better. watch alot of him at Ajax and he is at still gonna amaze people and go for n very high price. so we should and can get him now.
Kudos ship sailed, unfortunately. We wanted him last year but couldn’t stretch the FFP, zero chance of us paying a ridiculous premium now he has proven prem form and a long-term contract at West Ham who are not desperate to sell.
Just other better risk/reward options available in the market in that area for us this summer.