Arsenal are considering offering a player as a part of their bid to sign Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace, in response to reports.
Eze is on Arsenal’s shortlist for the summer transfer window with Mikel Arteta keen to recruit a flexible attacking player alongside a brand new striker.
Palace, nevertheless, are standing firm over Eze’s availability and are demanding that Arsenal, or some other interested club, pay the 27-year-old’s release clause, which could total £68 million after bonuses.
Arsenal have already spent £55m on signing Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, plus an extra £5m on Kepa Arrizabalaga, while also they are near agreeing a €80m (£69m) cope with Sporting CP to sign Viktor Gyokeres and are set to sign Brentford captain Christian Norgaard for £12m.
Eze would represent one other significant outlay and in response to The Sun, Arsenal are considering the prospect of including a player as a part of their bid to Palace.
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The report adds that Eze is open to joining Arsenal, who’re willing to supply Palace a ‘promising defender’ as a makeweight within the deal to sign Palace’s talisman.
Liverpool have also considered a move for Eze while last month, Paul Scholes urged Manchester United to sign the midfielder after he emerged as one in every of the one positives from England’s 3-1 defeat to Senegal.
Speaking after last summer’s transfer window, Palace chairman Steve Parish admitted he was ‘astounded’ by the shortage of interest in Eze.
‘I used to be really nervous from a club perspective of losing Michael [Olise] and Ebbs in the identical window and we didn’t have in Ebbs the interest that I believed we might have,’ Parish told Sky Sports.
‘I used to be astounded. Genuinely astounded. I mean, the guy’s just an excellent footballer, an excellent person.’
Eze, meanwhile, has made no secret of his desire to affix a club that may challenge for the Premier League title.
‘Every thing there may be for me to win, I would like to win, and I’ll do anything I possibly can to win the Premier League,’ he told Sky Sports in May.
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