Arsenal are able to swoop in for Manchester Metropolis full-back Joao Cancelo.
The Portuguese worldwide is at present on mortgage at Barcelona the place he has impressed the La Liga giants. In 32 appearances throughout all competitions, he has scored contributed to eight targets, scoring 4 and aiding one other 4.
The participant has a three-year contract remaining at Manchester Metropolis however has utterly fallen out with supervisor Pep Guardiola. There’s little to no likelihood of him ever taking part in for the membership once more, which suggests the participant is poised to go away the membership in the summertime, both on mortgage or completely.
Barcelona not keen to pay Cancelo’s asking value
Barcelona are eager on securing him on a everlasting deal on the finish of the season, nevertheless, they is probably not ready to take action resulting from monetary constraints.
The Solar studies that Manchester Metropolis are valuing him at £40m, and regardless of having the primary choice to signal him, the Catalan giants insist the value is just too excessive for them.
It’s mentioned that whereas the participant himself prefers to remain in Spain with Barcelona, the membership should not keen to pay something past a mortgage price for one more 12 months.
Arsenal able to swoop in for Joao Cancelo
If a transfer to Barcelona doesn’t materialise, the report claims that Arsenal will swoop in for the highly-rated fullback.
Arteta is aware of him effectively from his time at Manchester Metropolis as an assistant supervisor and will likely be eager to reunite with him.
It won’t be the primary time the Spaniard has raided his previous membership, with him beforehand signing Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko.
And Manchester Metropolis could not have an issue sending Cancelo off to their Premier League rivals as he himself beforehand mentioned.
He informed Sport:
“We determined that Joao needed to depart and we didn’t care the place, even when he needed to go to Manchester United, who’re our rival.”