With a latest damage disaster threatening to reveal their squad depth, Arsenal are reportedly intensifying their curiosity in a single midfielder who has already confirmed himself subsequent to Declan Rice.
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The Gunners have endured a irritating begin to the season on the damage entrance, with Martin Odegaard’s latest knock the most important blow of the lot. The Norway worldwide picked up an ankle damage while away on worldwide obligation and will now miss as much as 4 weeks. In the meantime, the Gunners are additionally lacking new signings Riccardo Calafiori and Mikel Merino so as to add to their latest woes.
It is the kind of accidents that Mikel Arteta hasn’t needed to take care of over the past two seasons, creating a brand new downside for his aspect as they appear to dethrone Premier League champions Manchester Metropolis on the third time of asking.
If these in North London fail to deal with the mounting absentees, then questions will undoubtedly start to return over whether or not the Gunners strengthened sufficient in the summertime switch window; the kind of questions that latest rumours might have answered.
In pursuit of additional depth, these at The Emirates are reportedly main the race to signal one midfielder. In keeping with Caught Offside, Arsenal are actually intensifying their curiosity in Angel Gomes, who is ready to turn out to be a free agent upon the expiration of his Lille contract on the finish of the season and are forward of the likes of Aston Villa, Newcastle, Napoli, Juventus and Borussia Dortmund within the switch race.
Gomes, after all, is a Manchester United academy graduate who could be finishing fairly the controversial transfer by returning to the Premier League courtesy of rivals Arsenal. Nonetheless, it’s a transfer that he could be sensible to take and one that might see him associate a well-recognized face in Rice, on condition that Gomes lately partnered the Arsenal star on his full England debut in opposition to Finland.
The 24-year-old actually did not look misplaced subsequent to Rice both to solely ignite the rumours even additional.
“Spectacular” Gomes can associate Rice for Arsenal and England
The arrival of Merino ought to supply Arsenal a fast answer when discovering the suitable associate for Rice on the coronary heart of their midfield, however at 29 years outdated, he’s arguably not a long-term possibility. As a substitute, they may flip in direction of Gomes on a free subsequent summer season. Simply 24 years outdated, the midfielder has labored his means again into the highlight courtesy of his time at Lille and is now prepared for a Premier League return.
It is a return that might removed from shock analyst Ben Mattinson who dubbed Gomes “all the time spectacular” final December amid early hyperlinks to a transfer away from France.
Gomes seemed greater than snug subsequent to Rice for England in what may very well be an indication of issues to return on the worldwide stage, and will effectively discover himself taking part in the identical position at Arsenal subsequent summer season.
