Riccardo Calafiori stays content material at Arsenal and is eager to seek out extra consistency subsequent season, regardless of stories of a return to Italy.
The previous Bologna defender is reportedly a goal of AC Milan, who’re mentioned to have enquired in regards to the availability of Arsenal’s versatile defender.
Calafiori solely moved to the Emirates Stadium from Bologna final season, enjoying 29 occasions and making 16 begins in his debut time period with Mikel Arteta’s facet.
The 23-year-old might have featured extra, too, if not for a hard marketing campaign marred by accidents.
And Calafiori insists his focus stays on succeeding with Arsenal and discovering common first-team soccer, reasonably than a reported transfer again to his dwelling nation.
Responding to ideas that he might return to Italy, Calafiori informed Gianluca di Marzio: “At Arsenal, I’m very glad.
“I at all times really feel good in any place I play with a purpose to assist the workforce. What was lacking final season was consistency, and I’ll look to seek out that consistency subsequent season.”
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Certainly, Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba stay at Arteta’s first-choice centre-back pairing, although Kieran Tierney’s exit leaves Arsenal with much less cowl within the left-back place that Calafiori can slot into.
He performed 1,496 minutes throughout all competitions final season for the Premier League facet, which was lower than Gabriel, Saliba, Jurrien Timber, Jakub Kiwior and Myles Lewis-Skelly.
Nonetheless, solely Timber (55) and Saliba (48) gained greater than his 31 tackles for Arsenal final season, and Calafiori expects to characteristic closely once more as Arteta’s facet chase the Premier League title.
“After I felt good, I at all times performed and made a distinction within the workforce,” he added.
“So the objective subsequent season is to be in type for the entire season.”