Arsenal made a transfer to signal Aston Villa attacker Ollie Watkins however failed with their try and deliver the England worldwide to the Emirates Stadium.
Mikel Arteta is determined to signal a brand new striker for his workforce as a way to give his squad a lift for the latter a part of the season to problem Liverpool for the league title.
The Gunners are behind Arne Slot’s Liverpool aspect within the race to win the league and their assault has usually come beneath criticism because it has did not click on in essential levels of the season.
With Arteta decided to deal with that concern, he made a transfer for the Villa attacker however the Premier League aspect had been fast to reject the supply from the Gunners and confirmed their disappointment in direction of Arteta’s aspect for his or her supply.
Switch information skilled Fabrizio Romano has now supplied the newest replace on the switch saga and claimed that Villa haven’t any intention of letting the attacker depart this late within the switch window and a transfer for Watkins could be difficult for Arsenal.
Romano completely informed GiveMeSport:
“Ollie Watkins is one other participant they wished. They made a bid. It was rejected by Aston Villa. The state of affairs was fairly tense between golf equipment. Villa weren’t proud of the leaks on the day after they had been taking part in a vital recreation within the Champions League. Unai Emery is admittedly pushing internally to maintain the participant on the membership, and he believes Ollie Watkins is just too necessary for Aston Villa for the second half of the season, so he completely doesn’t need him to go away. So it’s not going to be simple for Arsenal to persuade Villa on Ollie Watkins. It could take, I feel, a extremely massive amount of cash, or it’s going to be actually difficult.”
Arsenal must think about different choices now
Signing an attacker like Watkins, who was open to hitch Arsenal, would have been ultimate for the Gunners and given them simply the increase that they should push for the Premier League title.
Accidents to Gabriel Jesus and Bukayo Saka have affected the North London membership they usually had been decided to deal with that concern of their squad.
With Villa rejecting their supply straightaway, Arteta would now should search for various choices out there to bolster his assault.