It appears that Eddie Nketiah’s move to Marseille won’t happen. Arsenal rejected the Ligue 1 side’s three offers for Nketiah. According to reports, the French side’s last bid was for around £23 million, while the Gunners believe their star is worth £30 million.
That said, at the end of last week, it emerged that the Gunners were looking to facilitate the Hale End graduate’s exit. According to David Ornstein, Arsenal were considering allowing the striker to join Marseille on a season-long loan deal with an obligation to buy for around 30 million euros.
Well, the Roberto De Zerbi-led side appears to have shown no interest in closing the deal since its introduction, but why? While there was an expectation for the Ligue 1 side to sign Nketiah over the weekend, according to FootMercato journalist Santi Aouna, Marseille has made a strong bid for interesting Lens striker Élye Wahi. He mentions that the deal could be close as positions are getting closer with RC Lens.
Fabrice Hawkins, from RMCSport, is doubling down on Aouna’s claims, asserts that Olympique Marseille has agreed to pay Wahi 25 million euros plus add-ons. He asserts that all parties involved have confidence in the deal, and if nothing comes up, the player will move to Marseille.
🚨Marseille a accepté le principe d’un transfert sec et propose 25M€ + bonus pour Elye Wahi @RMCsport
🔹Les parties sont CONFIANTES
➡️ Sauf retournement de situation, l’attaquant va quitter Lens pour signer à Marseille ❗️ pic.twitter.com/sBgP4bMgUq
— Fabrice Hawkins (@FabriceHawkins) August 12, 2024
With agreement reached for the Ligue 1 striker, it’s likely that Nketiah’s move to Marseille will fall through. Roberto De Zerbi might end up recruiting two strikers, Wahi and Youssouf Mukouko (who they are also keen to sign), which may make it unnecessary for him to bring in a third striker.
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Hopefully Bournemouth are interested think he’ll be a good fit there and at 30 mil it wouldn’t be a massive risk for them.
Arsenal may have to come down on the price in order to clear space for a new striker.
Better to lower the price and upgrade with a new striker, than be stubborn and be stuck with Nketiah this year.
Better to get market value and if not we can always loan with a fee and go again next summer. Sale is not the only option should we want to purchase a striker we’ve already banked more money from ESR than we have spent on Raya/Calafiori there fees are spread over their contracts ESR’s fee was a lump positive for PSR. That is ignoring the fact we were 40 mil under PSR last year and the transfer kitty we have from earnings vs wage this year.
As said above he’s rumored to be on Bournemouth’s list.
What we know is a team in France was ready to drop 20 mil on him so the 10 mil max drive him to the airport nonsense has been blown out of the water. Let’s see what happens if Bournemouth gets involved.
We’ve also sold Norton-Cuffy to Genoa for £3.5m.
Bournemouth got £55m plus add oms for Solanke.
Eddie would I think do really well for then as likely he would play every game. Hasn’t hit his straps for us but I think he would find his level there
As English player for another PL team we should get a min £30mn. Might also have a couple of other PL teams as window closes also sniffing around
Brendford are paying 28m for Fabio Carvalio, an unproven PL striking campaigner and Arsenal cannot sell Nketiah for 30m. I wonder why Arsenal are so unlucky when it comes to selling their surplus players?
For the reason you said
One is unproven so it’s a gamble
One has proved they are terrible
Nketiah is not terrible,all he needs is trust and a consistent run of games..
The Solanke that he might be replacing,what was his output like before last season?
He never scored more than Nketiah in a season,before pulling up last season and suddenly Nketiah can’t do better?
We always buy at ceiling price and sell at floor price. That’s why Nketiah’s selling price can be negotiated from 30 to 25 million. A player that has had a heart-trick in PL should not be under-rated. Send out Nketiah on loan and he will return as another Saliba but this time a bully-striker in Arsenal squad. Don’t sell him to opposition PL club to destroy us as Martinez in Aston Villa.