Arsenal keeping tabs on a surprise move for a Belgian
According to RMC Sport football journalist Sach Tavolieri, Arsenal are keeping tabs on Leicester City’s Timothy Castagne.
The 27-year-old can be snapped up in a cut-price deal, due to the Foxes’ relegation from the Premier League.
The report stated that the first-choice right back in the Gunners’ list is Real Valladolid’s Ivan Fresneda. There has been a lot of talk about the 18-year-old who has already established himself in the backline of the Spanish club.
#UPDATE
🔴 As announced, Tim #Castagne's appreciated by #ArsenalFC's board which got from #LCFC the wanted confirmation while they started talks: Foxes will collaborate for a deal.
I'm told : "This deal will take more time than expected as Arsenal needs to fix some priorities". https://t.co/965UiKcFHj pic.twitter.com/zM1hOrD0EU— Sacha Tavolieri (@sachatavolieri) June 12, 2023
But due to strong competition from abroad, the North London side can be forced to look into alternatives.
Signing Castagne ticks a lot of boxes. The first one is that the Belgian international is a Premier League proven player.
Since manager Mikel Arteta took over at the Emirates Stadium, he has bended towards signing players who know the nits and grits of English football.
And most of the signings have arguably hit the ground running in Arsenal colours.
Second, acquiring Castagne would hardly require a heavy pocket, due to Leicester City’s relegation, and the contractual situation of the player, who only has two years left on his current deal.
Castagne at Atalanta.
This is very good player to have as rotation within the squad. pic.twitter.com/pBd1FgcoLB
— H (@ClockEndH) June 11, 2023
Tavolieri also wrote in his tweet that the Premier League runners up have already had conversations with the representatives of the player and his current employers. But this deal might stretch due to the club’s priority in upgrading other areas of the pitch before.
Arsenal are set to have a busy summer transfer window again this summer. With the qualification to the Champions League, they must be certain about the players they want to bring in, if they see themselves reaching the latter stages of the illustrious competition.
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Norton Cuffy IMO is an improvement on him.
He’s half as good a Teirney, so adjust the value accordingly. He is valued at £12.5 million. Also Rice is not as good as (DMC/Box to Box) MacAlistair, so adjust his value accordingly to £30 million. Unless someone can explain why he is better than MacAlistair. I mean is it because he’s an England DMC International? Did he only get that job because Gareth had no other DMC player available, so he had to make do? He is nowhere near the class of Viera or Petit, more like the workhorse Ray Parlour. If you think Arsenal is going to pay £100 million for player Barcelona or Real Madrid wouldn’t give a second look at, your having a laugh. Ha Ha Ha.
Alexis had a buy out clause ,Rice does not ,add to that the English tax and the fact 3-4 big teams are after him then you realise where that price tag comes into play ,is he worth ? IMO absolutely not ,not even close .
England is good in the midfield battle with a lot of strength power and pace
Worth a punt at £12.5 million, even if he only makes the squad on the bench. Mind you he is an international, but then again so is Rice. Maybe like Rice he is only an international because the Manager has no other options available to replace him in that position, otherwise he would!
If you was Arsenal and had £100 million to spend on a single player other than Ray Parlour, sorry I meant Declan Rice, what player would you buy to make Real Madrid or Barcelona envious of Arsenal? Now you can’t pick Jude Bellingham, because he has already gone to Real Madrid for £88 million, so who else could you buy that Real Madrid or Barcelona would have as first choice in their team Real ? You can spend £100 or less on a single player.
I think the site transfermarkt.co.uk has the most realistic valuations because some of the other sites was valuing Harry Kane at €90 million and Rice at €80,mil so I dismissed them straightaway. Transfermarkt.co.uk valued Rice at ¢67 mil which is about £58 million, expensive but fare.