Arsenal has been holding out for close to £50 million before selling Eddie Nketiah, even though Olympique Marseille seems serious in their bid to sign him.
The striker wants to leave the Emirates due to a lack of game time and has been in talks with OM for weeks.
Reports claim he has already agreed to personal terms with the French club and wants to work with Roberto de Zerbi.
However, Olympique Marseille is struggling to reach an agreement with Arsenal, with reports indicating their latest offer is worth £20 million.
This is less than half of what Arsenal is holding out for, and the striker will not leave on those terms.
A report on Football365 claims Arteta is a huge fan of Nketiah and would have no problems keeping the striker if both clubs cannot reach an agreement this summer.
The Englishman might push to leave, especially if Arsenal signs another striker. He is already behind Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz in the Emirates pecking order.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Nketiah might not play many games or score many goals, but he is one of us, having come through our academy, and it should take something special to make us sell him.
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The article says: “…it should take something special to make us sell him.” Well, £30m according to most reports (reduced from a pretty ludicrous £50m apparently). Yet STILL no takers!
It seems “we” may think Eddie is quite a lot more special than other clubs do.
I thought Edu and Arteta have been criticised for giving away our players for free, cheap or below the market price..
Now they are standing their ground on Nketiah but then people are also criticising them for it.
It’s a lose lose situation with some.
Agree 💯%
Nail on head Goonster.
Because he’s not very good at football
Last started in the league for us at Easter
Didn’t even come off the bench in our last 6 league games
Scored 5 league goals
Someone is willing to give us 20 million for that
🤦♂️
Arteta is a fool.
Get rid of Nketiah at any price as soon as possible.
Says Emile, a seasoned professional football manager, who is also a expert on finance 🙄
Are you saying he’s good enough for Arsenal
Great decision! I support it wholeheartedly.
Good to see my club behaving like the big club that they are! Clubs who want our players must pay fair value to Arsenal.
West Ham are paying Dortmund 28m for 31-year-old Fulkrug. Chelsea are selling Gallagher, who is on the last year of his contract, to Athletico for 34m, and they are willing to pay 35m for Omorodion who hardly kicked a ball for Athletico last season.
I repeat my view that we should not sell Nketiah for peanuts. Instead we should keep him. He has three years on his contract, and I can’t see him pushing too strongly for an exit, at least not in this window
@emile even for just £10m?. When other clubs re making good cash for their fringe players, u re telling him to sell him at any price. Even Brighton want £100m for Ferguson!
Not many teams are going to match Eddies financial terms so I hope we don’t regret holding out for a few extra mil
One minute, he’s surplus to requirements but the next (because no club wants to buy him, at least at the fee Arsenal want) he’s welcomed back. If I was Eddie this wouldn’t be a confidence-builder for me.
OM were (are?) the only club interested in him, and they clearly don’t think that the reported £30m fee is realistic so I guess he stays. Stays to do what is another question as it’s unlikely he’ll get much playing time.
Come next summer, this saga (pantomime?) will resume except the fee for Eddie is almost certain to be LESS that what OM were prepared to pay now because he’ll have had another season largely warming the Arsenal bench.
Patience, another 24 days of open window when many things can still happen