Arsenal are heading the queue to carry Barcelona famous person Dani Olmo to the Premier League.
The Spaniard is the topic of a weird saga in La Liga wherein he is set to depart Barça for nothing this month, having solely joined over the summer season. Barcelona had been solely capable of register Euro 2024 winner Olmo for the primary half of the season once they used a loophole, exercising Article 77 of La Liga’s rulebook to quickly use as much as 80 per cent of a participant’s wage on an alternate within the occasion of harm, following Andreas Christensen being dominated out.
The Catalan giants are actually scrambling to register Olmo for the second half of the season, nonetheless, and have launched a second enchantment to the Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF).
Arsenal are ‘the primary to indicate curiosity’ in signing Dani Olmo
Although Barcelona are hopeful of elevating the funds with a purpose to register Olmo – who’s ranked at no.9 in FourFourTwo’s listing of the most effective attacking midfielders on the planet proper now – the star has attracted loads of curiosity from abroad.
In response to a report from Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo, Arsenal had been the primary to indicate curiosity in bringing Olmo to the Premier League quickly, with Bukayo Saka at the moment out of motion.
The Gunners are trying threadbare in assault proper now, with midfielder Ethan Nwaneri deputising as a right-winger towards Brentford final night time within the absence of Saka and the on-loan Raheem Sterling.
Olmo is flexible sufficient to play in a lot of positions throughout the frontline, boasting the form of ball-striking that Arteta maybe lacks in his ranks proper now.
The Basque boss went on report after the victory on New Years Day as suggesting that his may may transfer for a participant in January if the chance arose, discussing the potential of an “unbelievable” probability to herald cowl.
“My focus actually now could be nearly throughout the squad, the assets we now have to be as aggressive as we presumably can,” Arteta stated. “We now have many, many choices to do this. And if one thing unbelievable [becomes] obtainable and if the membership is prepared to do it, we’ll have to think about it.”
In FourFourTwo’s view, nonetheless, Olmo is not essentially the participant Arsenal want. The Gunners are missing a right-wing specialist, a artistic spark and a pure finisher, with the Spaniard posing extra questions than solutions.
Olmo is price €60 million, based on Transfermarkt. Arsenal tackle Brighton this weekend when Premier League motion returns.
