Arsenal lost to Manchester City when it comes to January signing From Vitor Reis, after it was discovered that the artillery identified the teenage central Bek as targeted months earlier.
Reis finished joining City, a part of £ 170m from the premier League’s ruling champion, after seeing their season to smoke and needed a long -term renovation.
The city only paid shy £ 30m shyly In order to sign a 19-year-old from Palmeiiras, he eventually stole a march on Arsenal to get to work first.
Mikel Arththa did not get a job in January. Opportunist approach to the Aston Villa Ollie Watkins attacker has come out from nowhere at the end of the month and eventually failed, but Athletic It says that long -term development players were the main goal early.
Reis is said to have been chosen as a “primary target” along with the 18-year-old Norwegian midfielder Sverre Nypan. Arsenal That the scouts personally watched Reis during the Palmeiras game in early November, part of “extensive” monitoring, and in time they were considered to be his “most likely destination”.
But the artillery hesitated when Bukayo Saka and then Gabriel Jesus injured, opening an internal discussion on how to best use the available budget. Artete is said to have worried about consumption of as much as £ 30m on Reis if his immediate influence would be minimal.
City jumped in front of Arsenal during this period, Ending their capture Reis 21 January.. But even without spending in the emergence, or really Nypan – who delayed his transfer decision by the summer – none were a successful approach.
The ability to land the Watkins, the object a Opening offerHe removed from the Aston Villa table after Jhon Duran was sold al Nassru. The constant interest in Alexander Isaac remains impossible, and Benjamin Sesko is not interested in leaving RB Leipzig in the middle of the season.
Arsenal was also associated with former targeted Dusan Vlahovic, but this always seemed speculative, based on his potential availability from Juventus and past interest.
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