Arsenal transfer news: Gunners eye £100m Spurs target who remains firmly on Mikel Arteta's wish 'list'

Arsenal proceed to measure a fig of elite attacking targets arsenic Mikel Arteta looks to adhd different game-changing guardant earlier the transportation model closes.

The Gunners are determined to physique connected past season's Premier League rubric triumph, with strengthening the frontline remaining 1 of the club's biggest priorities.

And rising AFC Bournemouth prima Eli Junior Kroupi, who is besides admired by Tottenham Hotspur, is inactive firmly connected Arsenal's radar.

Arsenal stay keen connected Eli Junior Kroupi

According to transportation adept and writer Ben Jacobs, the Cherries guardant remains connected Mikel Arteta's wishlist contempt the Cherries hoping to support the teen for astatine slightest 1 much season.

Spurs are also understood to beryllium successful the race for the 19-year-old, portion respective different clubs crossed Europe are monitoring his advancement pursuing a singular breakthrough campaign.

Bournemouth are successful a beardown negotiating presumption and are believed to worth Kroupi astatine astir £100 million, making immoderate determination this summertime highly difficult.

The French youngster enhanced his increasing estimation by becoming the archetypal teen since Robbie Keane successful 1999/2000 to people 10 goals successful his debut Premier League season, with erstwhile Bournemouth midfielder Joe Partington describing him arsenic "one of the world's champion teenage goalscorers."

He added: "He knows wherever the extremity is. He's got an oculus for it. He sniffs retired chances. He's successful the close spot astatine the close clip and helium has the method and condemnation to instrumentality those chances."

The guardant who makes the astir consciousness for Arsenal close now

Kroupi deserves to beryllium connected Arsenal's shortlist, but astatine £100 cardinal and with Bournemouth determined to support him for different year, helium feels much similar a people for 2027 than this summer.

The aforesaid applies, albeit for antithetic reasons, to Julian Alvarez. Few strikers would amended Arsenal more, but his long-standing ambition to play for Barcelona makes a woody highly analyzable unless circumstances alteration dramatically.

Bradley Barcola would besides beryllium an outstanding addition, yet Paris Saint-Germain's valuation remains prohibitively precocious and shows small motion of softening.

That leaves Morgan Rogers arsenic the standout candidate.

While arguably the astir costly enactment connected the shortlist, the Aston Villa prima offers Premier League experience, versatility crossed the beforehand enactment and the physicality Arteta values truthful highly. And crucially, Villa's pursuit of Johan Manzambi could supply the Gunners with an opening if they determine to currency successful connected 1 of their biggest assets.

If Arsenal are prepared to propulsion hard enough, Rogers feels similar the astir attainable elite signing of the four.

He would amended the archetypal squad instantly portion inactive offering important country for development, making him the transportation that arguably makes the astir consciousness arsenic Arteta looks to physique a squad susceptible of retaining the Premier League rubric and challenging for the Champions League.

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