Arsenal lost in Manchester City when it came to January signing by Vitor Reis after it became known that the Gunners had identified the teenage defender as the goal months before.
Travel turned to City, part of a 160-MIO. Pound obligation of the reigning Premier League champion after climbing her season in Rauch and needed a long-term reconstruction.
City paid almost £ 30 million to sign the 19-year-old from Palmeiras, and finally stole a march on Arsenal to first come to the deal.
Mikel Arteta’s team did not recruit in January. A opportunistic approach for Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins came out of nowhere at the end of the month and finally failed, but failed The athlete writes that long -term development actors had been the main goal early on.
In addition to the 18-year-old Norwegian midfielder Sverre Nypan, Reis is said to have been selected as the “main goal”. In Arsenal, Scouts Rice observed personally in early November during a Palmeiras game, part of the “extensive” surveillance, and at that time were considered his “probably likely goal”.
But the Gunners hesitated when Bukayo Saka and then Gabriel Jesus were injured and opened an internal debate about how the available budget can best be used. Areta is said to have concerns to spend up to £ 30 million for rice if its immediate influence were minimal.
During this time, City jumped off her capture of rice on January 21st. But even without expenses for the aspiring defender or in fact, Nypan, who delayed his transfer decision by summer – was also not successful.
The possibility of landing Watkins, the subject of a lowball opening offer, was taken off the table by Aston Villa when Jhon Duran was sold to Al Nassr. The persistent interest in Alexander Isak is still impossible, and Benjamin Sesko is not interested in leaving RB Leipzig in the middle of the season.
Arsenal was also associated with the former destination Dusan Vlahovic, but that seemed to be more and more speculative, based on his potential availability of Juventus and previous interest.