Fulham looking to sign brother of £38m Arsenal star and will scout him tonight

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Fulham will reportedly scout Quinten Timber during Feyenoord’s Champions League clash with Celtic tonight as Marco Silva’s side mull over a January deal for the brother of Arsenal defender Jurrien Timber. 

With speculation over Joao Palhinha’s future still ongoing – and Bayern Munich doing little to put out the fires – each and every midfielder linked with a January switch to Craven Cottage is likely to be framed as a potential replacement for the powerhouse Portuguese. 

And, in the case of Andre Trindade, those Palhinha comparisons make sense. The Fluminense ace, in talks over a potential £30 million move to Fulham, is a deep-lying ball-winner who can start attacks as well as stop them. 

Fulham will scout Feyenoord’s Quinten Timber

Quintin Timber, however, is a little different. More attack-minded, for a start, and a player who shares more in common with, say, Alex Iwobi than Palhinha. Timber, Feyenoord’s £7.5 million Eredivisie champion, is perhaps best known for his ball-carrying ability. The former FC Utrecht ace loves to pick up the ball in the opposition half and drive at defences before letting fly or threading a clever through ball into the path of another Fulham-linked Feyenoord star, striker Santiago Gimenez. 

“He has improved enormously,” former Feyenoord midfielder Johan Boskamp tells RTL7. “When he was very little, he played with his brother. Back then, I thought; ‘Jurrien is better’.

“Now, he (Quinten) is moving up to another level. Really, really good.” 

Arsenal star’s brother could join him in London

According to TEAMtalk, Fulham will have a scout present during tonight’s Champions League group-stage clash between Celtic and Arne Slot’s side at Parkhead. Alongside the prolific Gimenez, Timber is emerging as a potential January addition, with the 22-year-old lined up to join his twin brother in the English capital. 

Jurrien Timber joined Arsenal from Ajax for a cool £38 million in the summer, his debut season ruined by an injury on his Premier League debut against Nottingham Forest.