With Arsenal currently rock bottom of the Premier League after three games, having scored zero goals and conceded nine, it’s clear something needs to change at the Emirates.
The Gunners have had a tough start, mind, facing Chelsea and Manchester City in that time, but the 2-0 away loss to Brentford on opening day is less forgivable.
That’s why there are many who feel Mikel Arteta’s days are counted, but that doesn’t mean those in charge at Arsenal are giving up entirely on his plans, trying to bolster the squad as best they can before the end of the transfer window by going after a long-time Tottenham target.
Needing defensive reinforcements, the London side have turned their attention to Italy, returning to Bologna, where Takehiro Tomiyasu has been waiting for a move to the Premier League all summer.
La Repubblica in Italy claim Arsenal ‘would have overtaken’ Spurs in the race to sign the player, which is somewhat backed up by Corriere di Bologna.
The local newspaper report the interest from the Gunners, but make it clear that, as of this morning, ‘no formal offers have arrived’ for Tomiyasu.
There is a belief that a ‘deal of this type becomes difficult in the last few hours of the transfer market’, but clearly not impossible.
We’ll have to wait and see, but it’s clear Arsenal have turned their attention to the defender, who can play right-back and centre-back.
As for Tottenham in all this, they are still named, but the impending arrival of Emerson Royal should mean they drop out of the Tomiyasu race altogether, with Fabio Paratici having got the right-back he so desperately wanted for Nuno Espirito Santo.
