Mikel Merino has been linked with a summer move to Arsenal, and the Spanish midfielder is expected to be a fine addition to the club’s squad.
The Gunners have one of the best midfields in the Premier League, but it has not been good enough to win the title, and they will keep improving.
Although Arsenal is not expected to lose any key players, the Gunners continue to consider a move for Merino.
Barcelona is another club looking to sign him, and Mikel Arteta’s side is willing to battle the Catalans to add him to their squad.
Arsenal has been preoccupied with their move for Riccardo Calafiori, and Fabrizio Romano has now delivered an update on their interest in Merino.
He reveals to Give Me Sport:
“Mikel Arteta was the one who was pushing to have Riccardo Calafiori this summer. So Arteta is having an important influence, obviously, together with Edu (Gaspar) in Arsenal’s strategy.
“So this is the idea also for Mikel Merino, the appreciation is 100% confirmed, but again, we can’t guarantee that it’s going to be him, because at the moment, there is still no bid or concrete negotiation.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Merino is one of the best midfielders on the continent now, and if we do not act fast, another top club could steal him from under our noses.
If he wants to leave La Liga, more clubs could show interest in his signature in the coming weeks.
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One minute Arsenal really wants him, the next it’s not so clear. As with Calafiori (who still hasn’t signed as far as I can see), we’ll only be sure when the ink is drying on the contract.
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Forgetting about this guy for the moment, does anybody know whether we’ve actually signed Calafiori or not.
He’s having his medical in London and then flying out to America.
Arsenal do seem to embroil themselves in their fair share of transfer window saga’s! Surely it’s not beyond the capacity of a big club to be negotiating deals in parallel, not sequentially as Romano keeps implying – how many minutes in a working day can they be negotiating for Calafiori? In fact, this is what I think has happened, the deals inward actually sold to the players themselves, long ago, but it’s like a house moving chain of ins and outs, so you can’t be left short, or overstocked. Though the article is spot on, in some instances you could get hi jacked – like when Chelsea came with a price and payment mechanism for Mudryk we weren’t prepared to match.
That’s exactly it. Transfers are complicated and involve a lot of things that need to be agreed upon with the player, their family, and their employers… And then there’s all the legal and logistical considerations that come with moving abroad in most cases. It’s a whole load of stuff that contains many deal-breakers in terms of one of the parties involved agreeing to the deal. And when you consider the huge sums of money involved, it’s not surprising how difficult it can be to get it done. In many cases it’s a volatile and fairly complex business transaction at the end of the day.