Al Ittihad, a Saudi Pro League side, is looking to strengthen their wings. They’ve set their sights on our Arsenal winger Leandro Trossard.
Since joining from Brighton for £27 million in the 2023 winter transfer window, the Belgian forward has been a huge success in red and white. He has assumed the role of a super sub, frequently turning the game on its head with his goals and assists, receiving praise for it.
Coincidentally, as there’s a debate over whether Arteta should give the former Brighton star a prominent role in his team, The Athletic revealed Al Ittihad has submitted to Arsenal a 35 million euro bid for his services.
If the transfer market was still open, Arsenal’s decision to let Leandro Trossard go would have made sense. In fact, if Al Ittihad had made that offer a month earlier, Arsenal may have replaced Leandro Trossard with someone like Simon Adingra or Johan Bakayoko. But they can’t let him go now and we have rightfully turned down that offer.
Trossard is an extremely valuable player who assures the team’s goals and assists. The downside of rejecting the offer is that he turns 30 in December, and Arsenal is unlikely to receive anything more than the 35 million euros on the table. But that’s a cost Arsenal had to take, because selling now with Gabriel Jesus out and no replacement for four months is a gamble Mikel Arteta couldn’t afford.
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Totally Agree
Very sensible and pretty obvious decision, surely.
As we’ve seen with the freak injury to Merino and the controversial red card for Rice, unexpected things can – and do – happen. It would be extremely foolish for Arsenal to even contemplate selling Trossard (not that he’d want to go anyway in all probability) and reducing their attacking options.
There is no alternate universe that can have Arsenal selling Trossard for any amount of money at this stage of the season.
If that offer came two weeks ago, Arsenal would’ve likely sold Trossard and kept Nelson instead
I think Arsenal will just sell Trossard next year at half price
If, if, if.
I think Arteta and Edu are pretty pleased with Trossard overall though. He scores his share of goals – more than some attacking players on our books for sure.
The problem with a lot of these Saudi-linked stories is that in many cases (not all, Toney is an obvious exception) the players aren’t interested in going there because it’s still a football backwater. Good idea if you’re at the end of your career (last big pay day etc), but for a 30-year-old who probably still has some years left in a European league?
He could accept the offer from Saudi Arabia if his contract extension at Arsenal is uncertain
Certainly. It would depend upon whether he thinks there’s a future for him (in that circumstance) elsewhere in the EPL/European league or whether he wants a big pay day now. Toney did, many don’t.
@Gai, it would be unthinkable to sell Trossard this season at all. No backup for Havertz and with Jesus injury records where will crucial goals come from? And with the number of games we have. Nelson is yet to be dependable it would be a big gamble to sell Trossard. It’s fair he can be sold next season when he will be 30years.
With 30million from the sale of Trossard, Arsenal would have gone full blast for Nico Williams.
Hard luck that the Saudis chose this ungodly time to make their offer.
But it’s pretty well established (in Spain anyway, but obviously not here) that Williams had no intention of moving in the summer window.
He was originally Barcelona’s main (some say only, at that stage) target – but he refused them, and they are generally considered to be his “dream move”. So even if he’d had an open mind about moving, Arsenal wouldn’t have been his choice.
Every player has a price Bertie.
Make him an offer he can’t turn down and you would be hearing a different tune.
Yes, but according to reliable reports from Spain should he ever wish to move it will almost certainly be to Barcelona.
Also, I don’t think Arsenal will make an “offer he can’t refuse” and destroy their carefully constructed wage structure (after all, that’s why they pressured Chelsea into paying a large % of Sterling’s wages as part of his loan deal).
Disrespect, he deserves to stay, no buy .
Our squad is light upfront, and you can say Trossard is the best 11th/12th man in PL. And it was not a BIG offer by any means, they offered just about the price we have invested on him. I am sure if we got another top forward this year, Arsenal would have blinked even for 35-40m