Arsenal have reportedly scrapped one transfer plan
Arsenal have scrapped their strategy regarding the addition of Ousmane Diomande.
Journalist Bruno Andrade revealed on Twitter, via HITC Sport, this week that the Gunners were keen on signing Diomande before the January transfer window shuts.
The North Londoners are doing a lot of business in the final two weeks of the window, it would seem.
However, Diomande is proving a difficult one to pull off.
Originally, Andrade reported that Arsenal were challenging Sporting for the 19-year-old Mafra defender, on loan from Midtjylland in Denmark.
However, the same journalist has now claimed that Arsenal were planning to sign him and then loan him straight to the Portuguese outfit, a plan that is no longer in place.
Andrade tweeted out yesterday:
When translated into English, it reads: “Arsenal considered buying Diomandé from Midtjylland and, soon after, loaning it to Sporting. Possibility, however, no longer exists. The English and Portuguese are now working on different fronts for the young centre-back loaned to Mafra. Danes still ask for 10M.”
According to Transfermarkt, Diomande is a central defender.
At 19, he surely is nowhere near ready for Arsenal’s senior team under Arteta.
But following speculation that the North Londoners are also keen on Ivan Fresneda, Arteta and Edu are clearly still building for the future, despite being in the middle of a Premier League title race.
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