Arsenal are likely to keep hold of Jorginho this summer despite transfer interest from Lazio manager Maurizio Sarri, while the club also have an asking price in mind for Thomas Partey.
The Gunners are expected to make a third bid for West Ham United captain Declan Rice, as per Fabrizio Romano in his exclusive CaughtOffside column, and that could mean possible departures in that area of the pitch.
The Rice deal won’t come cheap, so this has led to understandable speculation surrounding both Jorginho and Partey, who may also find playing time increasingly hard to come by if someone of Rice’s calibre joins.
CaughtOffside have been informed that Jorginho has been a target for Lazio, with Sarri knowing him well from their time together at Napoli, but a deal currently looks unlikely.
Sources with close knowledge of the situation have informed CaughtOffside that Sarri personally asked his club for Jorginho, but the Italy international’s wage demands make the move impossible as things stand.
As has been widely reported, this has led Lazio to pursue former Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira instead. Jorginho, meanwhile, is not evaluating any other offers from leagues in Europe or elsewhere across the world as he seems happy to stay in the Premier League.
Arsenal’s position is that they would be open to letting Jorginho or Partey leave, but it looks like the latter is currently attracting more interest.
Sources told CaughtOffside that Partey’s asking price would be in the region of £30-40m, with the Gunners not necessarily ready to let him leave on the cheap.
There is understood to be interest from clubs in Saudi Arabia, but Partey himself would prefer to stay in Europe, with interest from Serie A and Ligue 1 clubs.
Juventus had looked like one option for Partey, but they are prioritising a new contract for Adrien Rabiot, which now looks increasingly likely. Were Rabiot to move on, Juventus also have Lazio’s Sergej Milinkovic-Savic on their list as he has just one year remaining on his contract at the Stadio Olimpico.
Arsenal have one of the youngest squads in the Premier League so could be well advised to keep hold of players like Jorginho and Partey in order to give them more experience, though there were question-marks over Partey’s dip in form towards the end of last season.
Keep Partey at all costs.
With all due respect Arteta, is very foolish. The name he has today is from Partey, else Arsenal would have been fighting relegation under Arteta! Season before last Partey missed the first 3 Premiership games and we lost all. His lost towards the end of the season cost us the Championship league l. This season , his first miss against Man Utd we lost. Of the six loses in Premiership this season, Partey only feature in one – against Man City, despite starting as many as 26 games. Everton scored and won immediately Partey was removed for Jorginho. The later did not start even up to ten games, but we lost a whopping four when he is there! Nottingham Forest we destroyed 5 nil with Partey will come and beat us with Jorginho! Arsenal must be looking on how to replace Arteta before he destroy the club.
You’re talking trash, you might have a point but your opening and closing statement shows how naive, short sighted and foolish you are
Facts. What did Saka do in the last coiple of games, not much. But ao may reportes are singling out Partey. All because he is not british.
Why sell partey,Xaka and you want to win premier league! Keep both of them and bring rice in.with jorginho/ pertey,Rice/Xaka.you already a winner before you kickoff
Well said bro. I support your idea.
Facts
Y 2 sel midfield icons xhak or partey 2yrs les than hapless elneny an jorginho! Obvious error
Why is Arteta trying to build,when he is lacking squad depth.Repeating the same mistake expecting a different answer
Sell Partey and you are doomed.You cant match Jorjinho to Partet. A week cow is etter than a strong sheep.
Keep parteutty sign rice and good striker then we’re good to go.
There will be games next season where Arsenal will need front-up in midfield.
Neither Jorginho nor Havertz nor Zinc are that kind of player. The young lad Lavia from Southampton is a little to raw at the moment and might get a lot of cards in these tough games.
Also Lavia maybe too raw for the Champions League games. I think we really need one or maybe two more tough midfielders to strengthen the engine room!!!!
I will say this one more time. We need a Caicedo to supplement the midfield when teams try to push us around. Liverpool did that to us last season, so did Forest.
PS: I think we needed these Caicedo more than we needed Havertz (who is a luxury player to me),
Again just my views
I’m super excited, can’t wait for the pre-season and of course the season to kick off.COYG!!!