Parc des Princes side step up interest in Emirates Stadium defender.

French money bags PSG are mulling over a £9.5million bid for Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna, according to reports in France.

The Ligue 1 club are in the market for a pair of full-backs during the January transfer window, and French daily L’Equipe report that Arsenal star Sagna is one of their top priorities.

Indeed, the newspaper suggests that PSG manager Carlo Ancelotti is ready to offer up to €12million (£9.5million) to land Sagna, who is currently struggling to agree terms with the Gunners over a new contract.

SOURCE: Metro

Will such an offer tempt Arsenal into selling the French full-back?

Bacary Sagna is two months shy of his 30th birthday and has a fair few injury problems and is out of contract at the end of next term so such an offer is not as meagre as it might at first appear.

Arsene Wenger has seen youngster Carl Jenkinson go from strength to strength and arguably is ready to replace Sagna as the Gunners first choice right-back.

Though there is no denying that at his best Sagna is one of the best right-backs in Europe the extended period trying to get the former Auxerre man to agree a new deal could drive Wenger into considering offers for the defender, funds from which he could then use to invest

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