Arsenal are being linked with Manchester United’s Chris Smalling.
Arsenal haven’t exactly impressed defensively this season, even since Unai Emery left the club last last month.
The Gunners brought in David Luiz back in August, but the Brazilian has formed an often-baffling partnership with Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
William Saliba only arrives next summer, and whilst there is potential in Calum Chambers and Rob Holding, that has been the case for some time now.
Signing another centre back in 2020 wouldn’t be a huge shock, but the latest transfer rumours emerging over weekend certainly were a surprise.
The Mirror reported on Saturday night that Arsenal are interested in signing Manchester Untited’s Chris Smalling, with Everton and Leicester City also keen.
Smalling, 30, has been impressing on loan at Roma in Italy, having joined them from United back in August, but he will be back at Old Trafford at the end of the season.
The defender has even put himself back in the England frame with his performances, and he seems to have done enough to impress Arsenal.
However, Arsenal fans aren’t too impressed, praying that the rumour is a joke whilst suggesting that the club ‘is finished’, with other wondering just what has happened to the Gunners in order for them to be considering a player who United flogged.
Others think Smalling is even worse than Luiz and Sokratis, and just think the club have learned absolutely nothing from those signings by pursuing Smalling.
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