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Arsenal ‘In Talks’ Over Potential €20m Deal For DREAM Midfielder

By on January 9, 2015

Some very interesting transfer news to bring you with reports claiming that Arsenal have held preliminary talks with the agent of Ilkay Gundogan about a potential €20m move.

Gundogan’s contract expires in 18 months time and the Mirror claim that the midfielder has told Borussia Dortmund he has no intention of signing an extension and wants to move to the Premier League.

The Bundesliga outfit are going to make him one final contract offer but if he refuses to sign it, then they’re supposedly ready to cash-in as they don’t want to lose another player to a free transfer having seen Robert Lewandowski walk away when his contract expired last summer.

The newspaper suggests that Arsenal have already been in contact with the 24-year-old’s agent about a potential €20m (£16m) move to North London, with the players representative not ruling out a deal being agreed in January.

Arsene Wenger has been linked with a move for Gundogan in the past, so these links come as no surprise, and I think he’d be a DREAM signing if we could somehow pull it off.

The German international was developing into one of the finest midfielders in Europe before a serious back injury ruled him out for a whole year.

He’s not long been back to full fitness and we’d have to be confident the back injury is totally gone, but I’d be delighted if we could bring him to the Emirates as he’d be an excellent long-term replacement for Mikel Arteta.

My only concern is he’s a little short as ideally we need a real beast of a player in the middle of the park, but I wouldn’t hold that against him. If he’s available, we should be all over that deal!