How Arsenal could flog £195m worth of stars this summer and re-invest to land Zaha, Upamecano and Jovic transfers
ARSENAL fans have revealed their dreams that Gunners can make £195million in sales this summer – before reinvesting heavily in the side. An account – ‘@LondonSources’ – is followed by nearly 5,000 people, and they believe that the North London side can sign the likes of Dayot Upamecano, Wilfried Zaha and Luka Jovic. Providing estimated […]
ARSENAL fans have revealed their dreams that Gunners can make £195million in sales this summer – before reinvesting heavily in the side.
An account – ‘@LondonSources’ – is followed by nearly 5,000 people, and they believe that the North London side can sign the likes of Dayot Upamecano, Wilfried Zaha and Luka Jovic.
Providing estimated figures on how much players will be sold for and how much they will be signed for, they even named their own starting XI, though it failed to include an attacking midfielder.
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Starting with the players they would flog, the account claimed Arsenal could get £70million for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, £15m for Henrikh Mkhitaryan and £20m for Mesut Ozil.
They also stated that Granit Xhaka would fetch a fee of £35m, Mohamed Elneny could go for £10m and centre-back Shkodran Mustafi could be sold for £20m.
And they even suggested that Alexandre Lacazette could go to Atletico Madrid for £25m, with Thomas Lemar coming in the opposite direction as part of a swap.
With the £195m from departures, the account then went on to state that RB Leipzig defender Upamencano could be signed for £60m, with Zaha to cost £65m.
Aubameyang to Barca £70m
Lacazette to Atletico for £25m plus Thomas Lemar
Ozil to USA for £20m
Mkhitaryan to Roma for £15m
Elneny to any team for £10m
Mustafi to any team for £20m
Xhaka to any team for £35mSend Nelson Smith-Rpwe and Nketiah on loan.
Total: £195m + Lemar
— London Sources
(@LondonSources) February 6, 2020
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Upamecano from Leipzig for £60m
Jovic and Ceballos from Real Madrid for £70m
Soumaré from Lille for £45m
Zaha from Palace for £65m— London Sources
Leno; Bellerin; Upamecano; Saliba; Tierney; Soumaré; Torreira; Lemar; Zaha; Pepe; Jovic.
— London Sources
Lille midfielder Boubakary Soumare would then join for £45m to fill the void left by Xhaka, with Real Madrid duo Luka Jovic and Dani Ceballos signing for a combined fee of £70m.
In a starting XI that the account then predicted, they named Bernd Leno as the goalkeeper, with a back four of Hector Bellerin, Upamecano, William Saliba and Kieran Tierney.
Lucas Torreira and Soumare were the central midfielders, with an attacking quartet of Zaha, Lemar, Pepe and Jovic.
But the team failed to include a No10, with Ceballos surely to play instead of Lemar behind Jovic should all those players be brought in to the club.
Unsurprisingly, the account was ridiculed by fellow fans on social media.
Referring to FIFA games, one tweeted: “My man tryna play career mode but he opened Twitter instead.”
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Another quipped: “Dude , I wanna know what do you smoke ??”
A third commented: “Incredible insight, it’s like personally receiving a tweet from Raul Sanllehi has appeared on my timeline. Looking forward to all the incomings by June 1st…”
One simply stated: “Alright lad that’s enough career mode for today.”