Arsenal are hopeful of agreeing a deal to signal Cristhian Mosquera after holding talks with Valencia over the Spain under-21 worldwide.
Mikel Arteta is eager to strengthen his defensive choices and has recognized Mosquera – who got here via Valencia’s academy and has performed 90 video games for the primary workforce – as their essential goal to supply back-up to William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhães.
Arsenal are scheduled to carry extra talks and are anticipated to supply about £16m for the 21-year-old, who additionally has curiosity from Actual Madrid. Private phrases usually are not anticipated to be a difficulty for the participant, who featured towards England in Spain’s quarter-final defeat on the European Underneath 21 Championship final Saturday.
Arsenal are additionally anticipated to wrap up the signing of Christian Nørgaard from Brentford within the coming days having agreed a charge price as much as £15m for the Denmark midfielder. He will likely be joined by Martín Zubimendi from Actual Sociedad however Thomas Partey appears poised to go away after failing to agree a contract extension.
Nottingham Forest’s hopes of signing Timothy Weah and Samuel Mbangula from Juventus for a mixed £19.6m have been dashed after the pair rejected the transfer.
The USA ahead Weah – a son of Ballon d’Or winner George – and the Belgian winger Mbangula had been overlooked of the Juventus squad overwhelmed 5-2 by Manchester Metropolis on Thursday having informed the Italian membership that they weren’t fascinated with becoming a member of the Premier League facet.
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Bournemouth, Everton and Leeds are additionally understood to be fascinated with signing Weah, who was on mortgage at Celtic in 2019.