Fabrizio Romano does not believe Arsenal will be giving anyone any gifts in the transfer market this January, even if they might need to sell before they can buy, and have some players facing uncertain futures.
Arsenal are interested in Douglas Luiz and Romano has made it clear he expects the Gunners to try signing the 25-year-old from Aston Villa this winter, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be offloading players in a hurry to keep up with Financial Fair Play regulations.
Someone like Aaron Ramsdale could be one to watch after losing his place in Mikel Arteta’s starting line up, but Romano says it will depend on what kind of proposals come in for the goalkeeper, as well as for other squad players.
“Of course, with FFP there might be an opportunity for Arsenal to sell some players, as we know a few names have been linked with an exit,” Romano said to CaughtOffside for his exclusive Daily Briefing column.
“So for Aaron Ramsdale and others, it always depends on proposals – Arsenal won’t make any gift to other clubs, and at the moment it’s too early to mention concrete exits.”
Arsenal fans will surely hope to see Arteta fine-tune this squad in January, as they’re still not the finished product, even if they do currently sit top of the Premier League table.
Luiz looks like he’d be a great addition in midfield, so it could make sense to offload one or two backup players in order to be able to afford him, with the exit of someone like Ramsdale seeming ideal as the goalkeeper situation has been quite a distraction at the Emirates Stadium this season.
Douglas’s percentage of overall goal contributions to overall games played is not much better than what Arsenal have keeping the bench warm. Not sure if Douglas would start many games. Arsenal would be better off either securing a quality back up for saliba or more importantly gettin in a clinical technical tall TargetMan. Douglas would need to improve a lot on his overall percentage figures to fit into this Arsenal side. Worth £25 million or a swap deal, but he would be a big gamble that he might improve his goal contribution percentages.
Obviously you dont watch him week in week out . 25 million wouldnt get his left peg . Hes going nowhere anyway . You tried once before , you had a chance then , not a chance now.At the moment not far of the best midfielder in the premier league.