The real Sociedad President Jokin Aperribay seems to step down in a little more than a month to lose Martin Zubimendi when the midfielder grows that the midfielder will join Arsenal.
Zubimendi ultimately rejected a step after Liverpool last summer to stay in his hometown club at least another year. But he seems to have reached the point where a transfer to a larger stage is inevitable and arsenal are difficult favorites.
The latest update from Aperribay does not release the accelerating rumors.
“We’ll see what happens,” said the president Radio Marca Donostia.
“Everything I ask [Zubimendi] If one last effort is to qualify for Europe and whatever happens, it will happen in June. It makes no sense to speculate now whether it will be there. He had several ways to go and he will make the decision he wants because he will have more options. “
Aperribay explained that his recent interactions with Zubimendi focused on football and ended the season strongly, instead of the transfer saga, whereby the Real Sociedad Middle Master table, but still in a striking distance to qualify the Europa League or the qualification of the conference league.
The publication clause of Zubimendi € 60 million (£ 51 million) is an attractive number for arsenal. It eliminates the need to negotiate with Sociedad and leaves the decision entirely to the player himself.
“I don’t know if it is difficult for him to stay,” Aperribay continued. “We have not tried to increase the clause. Contracts are not negotiated.
Arsenal was reported last week as Zubimendi’s preference to Real Madrid. Cadena ser It has now also said that Gunners’ officials, when they met Madrid colleagues before playing before the recent quarter-finals of the Champions League, let their Spanish rivals know that they believed that a deal for signing Zubimendi was “practically completed”.
Arsenal spent a significant part of money for another real Sociedad midfielder, Mikel Merino last summer. But Merino used as an emergency striker, while Jorginho’s time in the Emirates stage is also attracted to the expectation that he will return to Brazil.
An additional bait could be Mikel Areteta, who, like Zubimendi, also comes from San Sebastian and was a real sociedad player himself before he has career-definent spells in Everton.