Arsenal may have suffered a setback in their bid to sign Ivan Toney this summer after his replacement at Brentford injured himself.
With a year left on his contract at the GTech Community Stadium, Brentford expected Toney to leave them this summer.
In preparation for his departure, they signed Igor Thiago as his replacement after the Brazilian impressed them.
Thiago has already joined up with the Brentford squad, preparing for the new campaign in the Premier League.
As expected, this is a settling-in period for the Brazilian striker, but he has now pulled up with an injury.
A report in The Sun claims he was injured in Brentford’s latest pre-season game and could spend some weeks, if not months, on the sidelines.
This will impact their decision on Ivan Toney, with the report suggesting they might now take Toney off the market to cover for the injured Thiago.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Toney is one of the strikers we want to add to our squad, and the Englishman has all it takes to score for us.
However, we have not seemed very interested in making a move for him in the last few weeks and should focus on the players we find more interesting.
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Arsenal are not interested in signing 2 trick Tony.
Pure and simple he’s not good enough to play for us.
Holding the ball up and being a nuisance is not the required benchmark.
Actually in my estimation this may be a good occurrence for the Arsenal as we are not interested in bringing him in and it may lessen the likelihood that Spuds acquire him and he returns to form.
No interest whatsoever!