Big Arsenal transfer claim surfaces – Gunners may be being used to aid talks with club

The Italian media today shares a ‘bomb’ involving Arsenal and a couple of Inter Milan players.

CalcioMercato.it ournalist Fabio Santini claims that the Gunners aren’t only interested in signing Marcus Thuram from the Nerazzurri, as they want Lautaro Martinez as well.

Arsenal’s interest in the Argentine striker comes at a time when he’s in negotiations with Inter Milan for a new contract. They’re offering between €9m and €9.5m per year, while he wants €12m.

The Nerazzurri are now entering the management of new owners, and it remains to be seen how they’ll react to that, despite all the prestige that Martinez has at the club.

Arsenal are presented as waiting at the door, even though we all know the Gunners could be being used as a leverage for the player to get the salary he wants.

There are no details on the Gunners’ chase for Thuram, although his first season with Inter Milan saw him linked to several Premier League clubs, including Arsenal. The forward, who joined Inter as a free agent last summer, is valued by Transfermarkt at €60m.