Arsenal‘s sporting director, Edu, is about to receive the biggest amount of money since he joined the club as Monaco is ready to pay £40 million to sign Folarin Balogun.
The Ligue 1 team has reached an agreement with the Gunners to pay a certain amount of money to sign the American player who did very well in France last season while playing with Reims on a loan.
Balogun went back to his original team during the summer. He wanted to try and get a spot in Mikel Arteta‘s main team.
However, Balogun’s chances of playing regularly in the first team were unlikely because players like Gabriel Jesus, Eddie Nketiah, Leandro Trossard, and Kai Havertz were ahead of him in priority.
The 22-year-old player was not part of the pre-season matches and sometimes practiced separately from the main team in the past few weeks. Arteta wants to reduce the number of players in the team.
Chelsea and Tottenham are interested in a player who scored 21 goals last season. However, the player, Balogun, is not keen on joining a rival team in the Premier League at the moment, according to the Daily Mail.
Arsenal would only have considered selling the Hale End academy graduate if they were offered a lot more money than what Monaco is giving them.
Despite Chelsea’s evident requirement for a new forward dueto Christopher Nkunku’s prolonged injury, the team will explore alternative sources to find a new striker.
Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino said it’s a tough situation because our two strikers, Nkunku and Broja, are injured for tonight’s game against Luton Town.
Finding the right profile at the moment is a challenging task. We are currently trying to add more players in this area.
However, the club finds this task difficult. Definitely, they are putting in a lot of effort to include more players.
‘If it can not happen, we have to wait until Nkunku and Broja are prepared and we receive assistance from Mason [Burstow]. ’