Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta will have the final decision on the future of Cristhian Mosquera as I can confirm the defender is attracting interest.
Sources in the industry have messaged to explain that talk of strong interest from Fenerbahce is legit, with the Turkish giants understood to be preparing an approach for Mosquera.
The talented 22-year-old only joined Arsenal from Valencia in a £13m move last summer, and his value has risen since then to around £30-35m.
Although not an automatic starter for the Gunners, my understanding is that Arteta rates the youngster highly and will ideally try to convince him to stay.
However, it’s likely that Fenerbahce will also try to make a tempting pitch to the player in the final days of the transfer window, while Saudi Pro League giants Al Hilal and Al Nassr are also preparing approaches.
Arsenal to push to keep Cristhian Mosquera
Mosquera looks like he has a bright future in the game, and the injury to William Saliba means he could get more opportunities at the start of this season.
The Spain international has started Arsenal’s wins over Manchester City in the Community Shield and Coventry City in the Premier League, though it remains to be seen if he’ll keep his place now that the north London giants have signed Ezri Konsa as another option at centre-back.
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It could be that there’ll be an opportunity for Arsenal to make a decent profit on Mosquera, but for now the plan is to ensure that Arteta has enough depth after so many injury problems last season.
It’s also not yet clear quite how long Saliba will be out, but it’s likely to be a matter of months rather than weeks, so the club won’t want to take any risks.
Sources on Cristhian Mosquera interest
Fenerbahce’s interest is strong, though, and they fully intend to make a big push to convince him to join and become a key player for their project.
“Fenerbahce have mobilised all resources to add a young, high‑ceiling defender to their squad, with Mosquera emerging as the top target identified by manager İsmail Karta,” one source explained.
“Al Hilal and Al Nassr are also closely monitoring the situation and are prepared to enter the negotiations with substantial salary offers.”
Keeping Mosquera, is a good idea for the gunners because the guy would help cover some injury place players
Arsenal should not even think of selling him. They almost reached the perfect High Performance outfit for the coming seasons apart from up front.
The saying goes that you never change a winning team which certainly applies to the back and the middle of the pitch as everyone knows what to do.
Arteta should tell Mosquera’s suitors to keep off. He is a very talented defender that can play everywhere at our back line. He has proven it time and time again…
Arsenal should not sell him, why not keep the one we have gotten, he is talented player he can take care of any position in our back line. It wil be a big mistake if we sell him now
Dont think Arerta will want him to leave. He is going to be a big player for us tell them to stick there offer.
arsenal must focus on 2 trophies 🏆 the champions league and the EPL not the treble
He is on low wages, and is a valuable squad member to offer defensive cover. Still only 22 and playing sometimes in the worlds best back four, his value is around the £40 to £45m mark at present and the value is likely to rise in the future.
Unless a £45m-£50m bid is made then Arsenal would find him hard to replace and is better off keeping the low wage cost reliable defender.
Arsenal started this nonsense when they sold martinelli, they have given the Saudi a loophole that Thier best players can be sold,for the right price.They will tempt most of our players with loads of cash and sneer them away.The next player they will come for after this is saka.The Saudi knows that Arsenal have the knack of getting good players and will always come and get them at a tempting price both players and the club will not refuse.
They should sell him na. What’s stopping them?
And while still at it, they should sell Big Gabby, Declan Rice and Martin Odeegard, too. Together, those 3 plus Mosquera should fetch them a cool half a billion pounds – an amount you can’t swinger at.
Then they should hang a FOR SALE AT A GOOD PRICE tag on the neck of Bukayo Saka, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Max Dowman. The possible £300m loot on those 3 will be pure profit. Mouth-watering, isn’t it?
Then we the fans will understand that our dearly beloved Arsenal have gone back to the days of Arsene Wenger when our very best players were sold to our direct competitors to pay off a stadium we didn’t ask for.
Then we would be ready to watch Conference League matches and a few relegation scraps at the Emirates.
Beautiful!