Another day, another article about Dusan Vlahovic and Arsenal’s interest in the Serbian.
The Gunners are the only club seemingly ready to make a big splash for the striker in January, but there appears to be some reluctance from the player’s side to make the move before the end of the season.
Experienced journalist Enzo Bucchioni gives his two cents on the matter on Tuesday for Firenze Viola, explaining Arsenal ‘have come forward through intermediaries’ to formulate ‘a general proposal waiting to understand when to be able to sit down to negotiate’.
He makes it clear the Emirates side ‘are willing to pay between €70-80m by including Lucas Torreira, valued at €15m, in the package’ on top of a five year deal worth €8m/year plus bonuses.
If that wasn’t enough, €10m have also been put to one side for the agent, but all this, ‘after the silence that accompanied it for weeks’, has ‘now been met with a fairly strong no thanks’.
The big question here is why doesn’t the player want to go to Arsenal, which Bucchioni takes upon himself to reply to.
He says ‘the answer is quite simple’, because ‘the offer lacks one of the objectives that Dusan asks of his future: to win’.
That’s why ‘it’s easy to imagine that he will go to a team that, in addition to giving him money, will also give him the opportunity to conquer sporting goals’, which Arsenal aren’t able to do right now, currently ‘far from the top of the Premier League and Europe’.
That means the Gunners have until the summer to prove to him, through their results on the pitch, that they can be a team capable of challenging for trophies in the near future.
