Earlier on Wednesday, we covered an article about Arsenal and their goalkeeper situation, which seems to be seeing them splash the cash on Aaron Ramsdale from Sheffield United.
It’s a bit of a strange one, since they already have Bernd Leno between the sticks and aren’t in need of a new starter, and spending upwards of £20m on a backup appears somewhat excessive.
Corriere dello Sport explained on Wednesday that Arsenal had ‘asked for information’ about André Onana, who is dead set on leaving Ajax and will be available on a free from January onwards.
Inter were said to have all but secured his services, with the newspaper confident the Cameroon international was on hold for now and would join to eventually take over from Samir Handanovic, but FC Inter News are having none of it.
There is ‘not yet a closed deal or a well-defined future’, and Onana is ‘open to various scenarios’, where his profile is appreciated in a number of countries.
Arsenal are mentioned as the club in England where he could be ‘considered the goalkeeper of the future’, but ‘nothing has been decided yet’.
That’s because Ajax ‘don’t want to lose the goalkeeper on a free and his agent is precisely working to ensure that his client can move to a popular club already in this transfer window’.
This all suggests Onana is there for the taking now, begging the question: why are the Gunners spending so much on Ramsdale?
