And now bookmakers BetStars are confident Arsene Wenger will follow up their arrivals with Brahimi, who is said to be available for £40million this summer. He is a late developer, he played in a different position.
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“He moved centrally in a successful way. Let’s see if we can finish the job”.
Having pursued Jamie Vardy off the back of his outstanding season for Leicester, there are shades of that in Perez, with Wenger perhaps hoping he’ll have that extra hunger and desire that comes from not having it all too early.
Mustafi, 24, was on Everton’s books as a youngster and played for Sampdoria before joining Valencia in August 2014.
Wenger explained why the wait for £35m Mustafi has been so long, expressing frustration that Premier League clubs could be being taken advantage of in terms of transfer fees. I don’t know exactly when we will announce it.
“When you restart, when you handle some leagues they are (on) holiday, there was the European Championships and nothing happened, you couldn’t find anybody”.
Wenger also went on to note that the transfers were rather hard to get across the line and that it represented the final bit of Arsenal’s transfer business, saying “We had to work very hard to get signings done. It’s ‘Do you have the money to spend it?'”, he said.
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“And I think when I told you the transfer is linked of course with talent, the expected strength, but as well with resale”. Nobody. Everybody is waiting, I think, to get the deals done.
