Arsenal Make Opening Offer Of £46M To Sign Powerhouse In January Transfer Window
Arsenal have seen an opening bid of £46m rejected out of hand for Aston Villa striker Jhon Duran, as they look to sign a striker in the January window in order to keep their Premier League title hopes alive after a few weeks of poor performances.
Duran stunned Liverpool with a late double in Villa’s final home match of last season and the striker has picked up where he left off this term, scoring six goals in his opening 11 appearances in all competitions. The likes of Chelsea and West Ham were linked with Duran in the summer and the forward’s eye-catching form in front of goal has put a number top teams around Europe on alert, according to AS Colombia.
The report claims ARSENAL and Barcelona have both asked about the possibility of signing Duran this winter and Villa have been unequivocal with their response: he will be going nowhere for anything less than £80 million.
Troy Deeney recently claimed ARSENAL ‘need’ a striker like Jhon Duran to achieve their ambitions: ‘You see with Ollie Watkins now that his game has risen. At the start of the season, Ollie was pretty poor, missed a lot of chances,’ the ex-Watford captain said on CBS Sports.
‘But they’ve got this guy [Duran] in the background, “Hold on, who is this kid? He shouldn’t be doing that!”, and now he keeps going, he keeps going.
‘He’s just got a massive contract… whether that’s to keep him or whether that’s to sell him, that’s for different people to talk about.
‘But for me, if I’m Chelsea or ARSENAL, that’s the type of striker I need.’
He added: ‘He’s young, arrogant, ignorant and he can get away with it. Every time he scores he says, “What more do you want me to do?”, but it’s about having good pros around him to get hold of him and say, “Listen, young man…”.
‘I’ve been there, I’ve made more mistakes than most people. You make a lot of mistakes, you think you’re the man, you think you know it all.
‘But once you get to 22, 23, 24, people just go, “Oh, we’ve figured him out now”, and that’s what he has to understand now.
‘At the moment, if he doesn’t score, it doesn’t matter because Ollie Watkins does.
‘But if he wants to fill the big-boy shoes, be the No.9 for whatever team he plays for, there is an expectation that you have to score 20-odd goals every single season and every single game. That’s completely different.’
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