Arsenal is one of the clubs looking to sign Aurelian Tchouameni in the summer as he shines at AS Monaco.
The 22-year-old is the latest French midfielder shining in Europe and he might be at a bigger club next season.
Arsenal wants to be his next employer and they have now been handed a boost regarding that.
FourFourTwo claims the midfielder also wants to play in the Premier League at some point in his career, which would be an advantage to any club looking to sign him in the competition.
Manchester United is competing with Arsenal for his signature, and it would now come down to which of them makes him a more attractive offer.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Our midfield lacks depth when you consider the poor performance of Albert Sambi Lokonga in this campaign.
Although this is his debut season at the club, he doesn’t seem to have the right quality to be a good alternative to Thomas Partey.
The outgoing Mohamed Elneny has done a better job and we need to consider replacing him with Tchouameni.
He would not come cheap, but if we finish inside the top four, he should pick moving to the Emirates over Old Trafford.
We should just get this deal done sooner than later, £55- £65mil could do the trick in my opinion.
I think extending elneny’s contract will be better because he has really done a great job for arsenal in their quest for a top four finish and I think he will be useful in our champions league campaign next season
The midfield is the heart of every team, I think it should be a mix of experience and youth,
Elneny has really improved, he should be retained,
We need Nkunku to help Smith and support Martinelli,
We need Lucas pasqueta to compliment our AMs,
With this guys, I’m sure any towering CF we get should perform.
Even if Eleny allows to stays, the need for an injection of six to seven players remains.
They are three to four marquee players required to strengthen the spine, two players from the academy and a possible free transfer to add depth in the squad.
Watching West Ham recently, making five changes with their best player on the bench and were very competitive against us speak volumes.
Am hoping preliminary works is going on behind the scene to address our imbalance squad
I wish MU were the only club competing with Arsenal! you can add Chelsea,RM….. and Liverpool who have reportedly held talks with Monaco.
I think what we need is an additional attacking midfielder to provide support for odeegard since Smith Rowe and nketiah who both can play as an attacking midfielder are always used as a winger and forward respectively. odeegard cannot be the only attacking midfielder starting all the matches especially next season when we qualify for champions league