Arsenal transfer news: Mikel Arteta 'speaks' to target with 51 goals, assists in 2025-26

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has allegedly held discussions with Club Brugge attacker Christos Tzolis.

Despite winning the Premier League title, the Gunners are expected to marque respective additions during the summertime transportation window.

At slightest 1 - possibly 2 - caller caller faces for the last 3rd are apt to get astatine the Emirates Stadium, that arguably the country of the transportation wherever the Gunners indispensable amended the most.

With Leandro Trossard being linked with a transportation away from North London, acquiring a caller near winger could beryllium the apical of Arteta's precedence list.

According to Greek writer Dimitris Manakos, Tzolis appears to beryllium Arteta's chose replacement for the Belgium international.

Tzolis anxious for Arsenal transfer

The study alleges that talks person already taken spot betwixt Arteta and the Greece international.

Manakos claims that the chances of the transportation being finalised, for an unspecified fee, are "very high".

That is contempt the 24-year-old inactive having 4 years remaining connected his declaration with the Belgian giants.

Tzolis enjoyed an unthinkable 2025-26, contributing 22 goals and 29 assists from his 52 appearances successful each competitions.

He is nary alien to English shot aft a stint with Norwich City betwixt the summertime of 2021 and January 2023, chipping successful with conscionable 3 goals and 2 assists from 30 appearances.

Is Tzolis the benignant of signing that Arsenal need?

As Premier League champions and Champions League runners-up, determination is an statement that Arsenal should beryllium aiming higher successful the transportation market.

At the aforesaid time, Tzolis's vocation is connected an upward trajectory and helium is present a 34-cap Greece planetary with 9 goals to his name.

Arteta volition besides admit Tzolis's versatility. In galore ways, helium is simply a younger mentation of Trossard, albeit 1 that is yet to beryllium himself connected the biggest stage.

That said, a instrumentality of 3 goals and 4 assists from 21 Champions League appearances is simply a respectable instrumentality for a nine of the size of Club Brugge.