Former Arsenal star Serge Gnabry will reject interest from Tottenham together with his give attention to signing a brand new deal at Bayern Munich.
Spurs have been linked with a bunch of attacking options in the ultimate stretch of the January transfer window having cashed in on Brennan Johnson at the beginning of the month, offloading him to Crystal Palace for £35million.
The inconsistent type of Matthys Tel and Randal Kolo Muani, linked with a return to Juventus, coupled with Dominic Solanke’s fitness issues have left Spurs in need of reinforcements as they seek to climb the Premier League table.
In line with BILD, Tottenham have turned to Gnabry as a possible solution. The Germany international, now not an automatic starter on the Allianz Arena, has entered the ultimate six months of his contract and would likely be available for a knockdown fee this month.
However the 30-year-old has declined Tottenham’s interest and is now expected to sign a contract extension with the German champions.
Gnabry was considered a hugely promising talent at Arsenal after joining the club as an adolescent in 2012. But after failing to interrupt into Arsene Wenger’s side on a consistent basis, he returned to Germany in 2016.
After one season at Werder Bremen, he joined Bayern in 2017 where he has made 310 appearances, scoring 69 goals and providing 100 assists.
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Tottenham meanwhile are believed to be one in every of eight teams to have registered interest in Raheem Sterling following his release from Chelsea.
Injuries have been an issue again for Spurs all season with James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski, Mohammed Kudus, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall, Ben Davies and Richarlison currently unavailable but Thomas Frank insisted this week the club is not going to be forced into any rash moves.
He said: ‘We’re out there. We’re doing all the pieces we will to see if we will improve the squad. We’ve said that the entire time.
‘I believe it’s, in fact, when things are usually not exactly where we would like them, and we’ve got some injuries, you may be pushed and compelled to take decisions you don’t actually need to take if all the pieces was on top.
‘So we should be very, very smart and funky and calm and take good decisions to assist us to optimise short-term success, but in addition secure long-term success.’
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