Arsenal Aims for Samuel Umtiti

DBasia.news –  Towards the end of the 2018/19 season a number of teams have begun to develop their strategies to increase quality through the player transfer market. One of the teams is Arsenal.

Despite showing a pretty good performance under the direction of Unai Emery and is now ranked fourth in the standings and has confirmed a place in the last eight of the Europa League, this does not necessarily make the club stay silent, especially in the January transfer market, they only borrowed Denis Suarez.

Now according to Sport English reports, Arsenal are reported to have begun to consider recruiting Samuel Umtiti, who is currently working for Barcelona. Even Emery is also called to have asked the club to do everything they can to immediately bring the former Lyon player to London.

The Gunners’ chances of getting Umtiti’s signature were also not impossible, although Barca had a brilliant season and this season was seeded to win three different trophies, the French player was no longer the main choice of Ernesto Valverde.

In addition to suffering from injuries that made him be sidelined for a long while, the former Athletic Bilbao manager now prefers to put Gerard Pique and Clement Lenglet at the heart of the defense.

Not stoping there, the latest news also mentions that Barca had begun to consider releasing the player in the summer transfer market.

However, there are still two things Arsenal must solve, besides the Umtiti clause reaching 500 million euros, they also have to compete with Manchester United.

Samuel Umtiti was not the only player included in Emery’s shopping plan, the man who also managed PSG was also reportedly eyeing Ander Herrera, David Alaba and Ajax Amsterdam defender Nicolas Tagliafico.