Arsenal and Leeds are locked in a transfer battle for Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie who seems close to changing clubs this month.
The American has been targeted by EPL sides in the last few weeks, but the Gunners and the Whites are the last men standing in the race for his signature.
With an American coach and some USA teammates, Leeds is confident they could beat the Gunners to add the ex-Bundesliga star to their squad.
However, a report on La Repubblica reveals his entourage has been in London over the past few weeks trying to negotiate a sale.
It remains unclear if they are speaking to only Arsenal or both suitors, but Juve is willing to cash in on McKennie and will seek to make around 30m euros from the American’s departure.
Just Arsenal Opinion
McKennie is one of the finest midfielders around and has struggled at Juve because of their defence-minded style of play.
At the Emirates, he will join an Arsenal side committed to moving the ball around well and holding on to possession as much as possible.
We top the league now and have a chance of becoming the Champions, but we must not underestimate the power of Leeds stealing a march on us to seal the deal.
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He’s bang average but I guess a loan would do as we need cover for Partey/Xhaka.
He is nowhere near good enough.
Do we forget Fabio Viera.
Let’s give this guy a chance.
He is above average, you guys don’t even watch him and try to speak on it. He plays at Juve, a club we couldn’t even compete with not 2-3 years ago. He could rotate in some.
There’s no concrete evidence that Arsenal are interested in this player. Where are the sources showing this? Fabrizio Romano the most reliable provider of news on transfers like this hasn’t made any reference to Arsenal muscling in on his latest tweet. Most Arsenal fans seem to be bad mouthing the American on the basis that Leeds rather than them are in the driving seat. Why would he go to Arsenal to play the role of an understudy? On the other hand there are so many Americans at Leeds and their style of play suits him so it will be easy for him to integrate..