Ivan Toney has been on Arsenal’s radar for some time, but the Gunners have cooled their interest in the Brentford striker over the last few months.
He could have joined them in the summer of 2023 if he had not been banned, and he now has just a year left on his contract at Brentford.
The Bees know he wants to depart, and they want him to leave this summer to make some good money. However, it is not so easy for them to ship him out.
There has been a surprising shortage of suitors, prompting the Bees to lower their demands to create some movement.
A report in The Sun claims Brentford is now ready to accept less than £50 million for his signature.
They had previously wanted almost £100 million to sell the striker but will now accept significantly less to make the move happen.
This could lead Arsenal to return to the race after missing out on Benjamin Sesko, but Mikel Arteta’s side is no longer in a hurry to sign him.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Toney remains a good striker, but he needs to prove his worth again after missing much of last season due to a ban.
He does not seem to be in fashion for us again, and we can understand that, after all, there are so many other strikers to sign.
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He’s obviously much better value at less than £50m (not that they were ever going to get the near £100m reported – pure fantasy land stuff by Brentford really) but he’s apparently now one of three or four options being looked at by Arsenal.
There will be a lot of demand for a top-class striker (whether Toney still fits that bill is somewhat debateable) so Arsenal is going to have to pick a target and go all out for him asap or they could end up with nobody come 31 August.
Unfortunately I think he’s more likely going to the little totts.
fortunately i think you mean – they can waste their money not ours, even the £30m discount to £50m with zero resale (28 years old now, 32 at end of a average 4 year contract) is not worth it
Arsenal want an elite clinical goal scoring machine, Toney over PL career is 1 non-pen goal 292 minutes (less than 1 every 3 games), nowhere near elite clinical
That’s right but we’re hanging our heals while deals for Victor osihmen being done. Before you know it everyone avaliable has gone. All incoming should be done before USA tour. This year just doesn’t feel good right now, if we don’t get world class players in soon the totts will pass us bye.
it is a strange window so far, last season Edu/Arteta were very clear on the recruitment strategy and executed early such that Rice, Havertz and Timber were comfortably on the plane to pre-season
this window the exact opposite, not clear who or even what position the recruitment strategy is prioritising, and clearly none will be on the plane to US this weekend
granted much of that is due to Euro and Copa as it seems a universal truce on approaching those playing, commendable I suppose really
nonetheless Arsenal are nowhere ready for next season which starts a month yesterday!
Osihmen i am not bothered about, not worth the money, but perhaps more frighteningly i don’t think Arsenal have the money, haggling over pennies for Calafiori and in for no-one else hardly suggests shipping £100m on an Osihmen or Gyrokeres, especially as defensive midfield built on Partey and Jorginho is suicide in the face of over turning Man C
thankfully Spurs are still Spurs, and even if things start to go well for them we can rely on ‘Spursy’ to put an end to it
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I agree. It really seems to be the case that the two tournaments have slowed things down It was the case last season that our targets were on board promptly whereas it’s deathly quiet now. Utd have been busy and Villa too but there is very little by the way of rumours that might have something genuine in them to spark much interest
Villa business has distinct whiff about it, as does a few other each way transfers by Chelsea and others of unknown names for big money
Douglas Luiz out before 30 June to bring in Onana after 1 July, hmmm
that said why were Edu/Arteta not in for Douglas Luiz at bargain basement price?
United busy signing a cartoon character goofy teenager for £50m
so while Arsenal have not done anything of significance so far it does not feel like others have stolen the march on us
regardless, it feels like Arsenal will be underdone for first game of the season, and last minute window madness on the way (for all)
This may be a very unsettling start to the season. 3 of the 1st 5 fixtures are Villa, Spuds, and MC115 away.
Villa had to be busy due to FFP.
agreed, that’s why some of the inflated prices of no-ones swapping between clubs smells, and they were not alone with Chelsea and others clearly willing partners
it will be very interesting to see if repercussions from this obvious collusion to cheat the rules
Luiz made perfect sense and if anything could argue they sold low to Juve to avoid the prem competition. The Chelsea/Villa deals were very suspicious.
Toney scored four goals last season. I know he was out for most of it but still played seventeen games. The previous season he got 20 but 8 were penalties.
He has one year to go on his contract.
Even £50m is too much
100% agreed
the call out by Arsenal fans is for an elite clinical goal machine and Ivan Toney clearly is not
and that’s before his so called personality misfit
end of story for me, price tag irrelevant when player is not of the quality required