Arsenal Files: Twist in Striker Saga as Gunners can be forced in Plan C option

Arsenal has drawn up a Plan C after being frustrated by the transfersagas around Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko.

The gunners are Desperate to an attacker of world class This summer to stimulate their title references.

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Mikel ArtetaThe side has passed back-to-back second place finishes in the Premier League.

The belief is that a productive attacker would add sufficient quality to push Arsenal In the first place.

An unwanted striker Saga

As the season ended, Arsenal had quiet confidence to do their summer company quickly, efficiently and with little hassle.

With the new sports director Andrea Berta through the door in March, the wheels were moving well before the window opened on June 1, and set £ 51 million aside for the approaching arrival of the Real Sociedad -Middenvielder Martin Zubimendi.

The Gunners are also close to landing an experienced number 2 to challenge David Raya In Doel with a £ 5 million deal for Kepa Arrizabalaga in the making.

And with boss Mikel Arteta who demanded an elite no. 9, two goals were placed at the top of their list – Sporting Lisbon’s Viktor Gyokees and Red Bull Leipzigs Benjamin Sesko.

Arsenal was burned in earlier windows because they had no plan B, the same would not let it happen. If one were to break down, they could turn to the other.

Trust was high. A huge preparatory work was done about both – including advanced negotiations and endless reconnaissance missions. In the case of Sesko, Arsenal has been swallowed away for the past two years. With Gyokees, Berta knows everything that he has pursued his signature while he at Atletico Madrid And is considered the preference of the Italian.

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There was hope that a striker would walk through the door with time for their journey for the season to Singapore and Hong Kong in mid -July.

But progress has not been as fast as first expected and there are more and more obstacles to jump before they sign one of Gyokees or Sesko.

Both Gyokees and Sesko rely on the similarities of Verbal Gentleman To conquer a movement this summer, it came close to Lisbon and Leipzig last summer respectively.

The Swede and the Slovenian were not told uncertain terms: stay for another year and we will not stand in your way when the time comes.

Time has come, but there is frustration in each of the players’ camps about how it unfolds, in particular with regard to their transfer values.

Sesko believed that he would be allowed to leave Germany for around £ 60 million, but Leipzig is now firmly compared to a fee closer to £ 70 million, in line with his contractual release clause.

Arsenal has reduced this, so they still have to make a formal offer. There is a concern that they can be drawn in an ever -increasing bidding war, especially with two Saudi clubs that recently announced their interest.

It is a similar situation with Gyokees, who was told that he could leave for considerably less than his £ 85 million release clause after leading sporting to another league title.

Despite sporting President Frederico Vandaras who claimed that there was ‘never’ a men’s agreement to allow him to leave £ 59 million, Sunsport understands that the opposite is true.

Instead, Sporting now wants around £ 67 million a fee that makes Arsenal think twice for a 27-year-old who is in his peak years with little to no sales value.

Sunsport understands that the frustration of the camps of Gyokees and Sesko was born from the fact that they compete against each other to join Arsenal, knowing that the North Londoners can only sign one of them.

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And there is a real possibility that either should not move to Arsenal, they could stay in place, given that people Barcelona and Manchester United are not financially in the best places, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich don’t need a front man and Chelsea already have one No. 9 in Ipswich’s Liam Delap.

There is also the case Liverpool’s striving for Florian WirtzWith the red tones forced to pay more than £ 100 million for the 22-year-old of a stubborn Bayer Leverkusen.

With Sesko also 22, Leipzig will certainly be influenced by the sum where Wirtz goes, which is why their decision to keep for a greater compensation, something that Arsenal did not expect.

Arsenal can be forced to turn to Plan C, uninterested in spending the entire summer by hunting every player who is involved in a saga with their parent clubs, especially in the case of gyoker, if he threatens to stop.

Eintracht Frankfurt’s £ 60 value Hugo Ekitike Is still on the radar of Arteta, just like Julian Alvarez of Atletico – another player who sold Berta to Arteta and the Arsenal Board.

They can also change direction and continue for a broad player. Athletic Bilbaos Nico Williams The dream signature remains, even if Bilbao asks £ 50 million in advance with the wage requirements of Williams to break the wage structure of Arsenal.

Bilbao’s Williams -Reaction

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Tort Understands that athletic Bilbao is ‘calm’ about the future of Nico WilliamsIt is sought by Arteta and Arsenal.

So much so that they are planning to start conversations with the 22-year-old winger as soon as he returns from his vacation in Ibiza, after he has played in Spain Nation competition Last defeat against Portugal on penalties in Munich last weekend.

The plan is to extend the contract of the player beyond his current expiry date of 2027, including raising his release clause – it is currently about £ 50 million in advance, something like Arsenal and Bayern Munich are encouraged by.

The people around Bilbao are surprised by Williams’ decision to go on holiday with his future at a boiling point, but the player insisted that he had to leave some steam.

Bilbao is convinced that Williams will at least listen to negotiations to convince him to stay, especially with Champions League Football guaranteed for next season, even if he and his agent Félix Tainta view this summer as an ideal moment to move to a top in Europe with his stock at a record high.

In a review after the season, President Jon Uriarte said: “Maintaining talent is very important. We have a winning project that is interesting for everyone, and Nico is part of that project.

“The project is easier if we keep the players, and I think Nico and the rest of the players have a very exciting year.”

Williams is supposed to be frustrated by criticism from the Bilbao fans this season, starting with only 22 Laliga Games last term due to a constant groin problem.

So much so that the day after the Nations League final he made a rare remark about social media on the message of a fan who complained to him because he was not part of the Bilbao team that traveled to Old Trafford in their Europa League Semi -final defeat against Manchester United.

Williams wrote: “View: you are very annoying”. In the past, Williams is forced to come from social media to prevent constant abuse.

Arsenal hopes to take advantage, but is against Bayern. The Germans are convinced that they are in a great position to take him to Munich, and the player is reportedly enthusiastic about the chance of playing in the Bundesliga And the Champions League for a continental giant.

If Arsenal Pip Bayern, it would go away Leandro Trossard Fighting for his place. The Belgian is already considering cashing in with Saudi interest high and his contract with the Emirates that run out next summer.

Vieira’s perilous situation

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Sunsport understands that Porto His dismissal left with the fact that they will not be able to sign Arsenal’s Fabio Vieira this summer this summer because he had him on loan in the previous term.

Vieira25 – Signed from Porto for around £ 34 million in the summer of 2022 – Arteta is supposed to look by Arteta by Arsenal The Portuguese midfielder to make room for more income.

Porto would like to permanently return Vieira to Portugal. He will remain after the end of the regular season to compete in the World Cup Club – A provision Porto was on it while negotiating with Arsenal last summer – but there is no option to buy.

The loan costs to lure Vieira away from Arsenal was supposed to be around £ 750k, with another £ 600k penalty allowance if the player did not play more than half of the Porto matches this season. Porto has succeeded in avoiding this.

But Porto is unable to spend this summer, with Arsenal who demands almost the same compensation that they have paid for him, while the wages of Vieira are also considered excessive, something the player refuses to admit since arrival in North Londs.

Arsenal should be convinced to let Vieira leave for considerably less than they have paid, which is unlikely, and would rather not lend him for a second consecutive campaign.

In short exchanges with the Arsenal hierarchy, Porto Club President and former Chelsea and Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas, it was not possible to find affordable resolution and turns to other cheaper goals.

Arsenal is now trouble solving this. Vieira is then expect to return to Arsenal for the season After a few weeks of rest from the club World Cup, but Sunsport understands that it is unlikely that he will be involved in their tour for the season.

Arsenal Hope Vieira’s versions at the Club World Cup will attract the attention of a freer who is willing to spend great, with various Saudi teams that follow the situation.

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