Arsenal’s Gabriel Magalhães has made 27 starts in the league this season and has formed a partnership with Ben White in the heart of the north London club’s back four.
A ‘confidential’ report from Sport on Tuesday states that Barcelona ‘like’ the Brazilian, even though they have a deal in place to bring Chelsea’s Andreas Christensen on a free transfer in the summer.
Samuel Umtiti and Clément Lenglet are currently the two left footed centre-backs at the Camp Nou and they are likely to be allowed to leave after this season.
The arrival of the Dane will see him join Eric García, Ronald Araújo and Gerard Piqué as four right footed central defenders at the La Liga side next season.
It’s unlikely there’d be any movements following Christensen’s arrival, but the newspaper states the ‘market can provide interesting options’, and ‘one of the options’ could be Gabriel. The Catalan club’s coaches ‘really like him’.
Sport claim Mikel Arteta’s side will need to make several signings in the next window and ‘there is little money’ to do that.
Therefore, the Gunners have ‘set their sights’ on Barcelona to carry out exchange deals or loan signings ‘back and forth’. It’s suggested the likes of Neto, Memphis Depay or even Riqui Puig could be a right fit for the Emirates club.
Sport end their report by stating: ‘They have talked but there is no agreement and at Barça they are clear that if the case were to happen, Gabriel could be the most interesting option to agree with Arsenal, we will have to see how it all ends.’
