Arsenal will once again explore the market this summer following the injury to new defender Jurrien Timber. They will have “internal discussions” about whether they should target another centre-back or a full-back. This is as per transfers insider Fabrizio Romano.
It’s been a brilliant summer of transfers for the Gunners this season. The club came out the gates swinging and secured all three of their priority targets before July 15th. That is potentially saving themselves from getting into too many of the transfer sagas. Which we’ve been seeing develop over the last few weeks.
The north Londoners haven’t been shy about splashing the cash either. That is with Kai Havertz setting them back £65m, Timber £34m, and Declan Rice. He costed them a whopping £105m – making him the most expensive British player in history.
Arsenal have targets in mind fro Timber replacement
Fabrizio Romano says:-
“Arsenal will explore the market, will discuss internally, Arteta will be involved in conversations because, at the beginning of the market, they looked at the possibility to bring in one more centre-back, a traditional centre-back, more than a versatile centre-back such as Timber who can play everywhere basically in the defence.
“They were looking for example at a player that they appreciate is Aymeric Laporte, this is true. The rumours about Laporte are true in the sense that he’s one of the players appreciated by Arsenal, but from what I [have] heard, Man City didn’t want to sell one more player to Arsenal; they prefer a different kind of destination for Laporte.
“So lets see if now Arsenal return for Laporte, or if they will go for a full-back instead of replacing Timber with a centre-back. So internal discussion will take place to decide on that point.”
