Amadou Onana is one of the bright lights of Everton’s depressing season and works hard in midfield to help them to stay in games.
The midfielder only moved to Merseyside in the summer, but clubs already wanted to sign him in the last transfer window.
It is believed that Arsenal is one of the clubs that wanted to add him to their group two months ago, but the former Lille man remained with the Toffees.
He has now spoken about his future and when asked about the interest from the Gunners, he and his sister, who is also his agent, decided not to give too much away.
Melissa Onana said via Sport Witness: “No comment. We can’t say anything meaningful about the next window either.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Onana has been superb for Everton this season and will almost certainly leave them at the end of the term, even if they are not relegated.
It is good that we are targeting the midfielder because it shows we also recognise a top talent when we see one.
If the Toffees are relegated at the end of this season, the 21-year-old would be even cheaper to add to our squad, so we just need to prepare to beat other suitors to land him.
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Onana is the fastest developing defensive midfielder in the league at present in my opinion.
A powerful and mobile player who relishes the physical side of the game.
Prefer him to Rice or Bellingham.
I completely agree with you on what I have recently seen of both of them IGL.
I am confused with our midfield plan for the summer. With Elneny’s contract extension, we now have 3 holding midfielders. if we add any of Onana, Caicedo, Declan Rice or Martin Zubimendi in the summer, will Jorginho or Elneny be sold?. Will Partey be moved to the Xhaka box to box role?. Well, over to you Mikel.
A very viable option who would add a physical dimension to our midfield.While I like Rice, I would not pay more than 50m for him and with Caicedo having just signed a new contract Onana could well become our main EPL target.Big game for Everton this afternoon.
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