According to the Mirror, Arsenal were keen to sign Norwich maestro Emiliano Buendia in January, but couldn’t afford the £40 million fee.
Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo then claimed that the Argentine’s agent would travel to London to discuss a summer move to the Emirates for his client.
After his heroics against Brentford last night, we presume that Mikel Arteta will be even more keen to get this deal done.
The 24-year-old helped the Canaries record a gritty 1-0 win over promotion rivals Brentford at Carrow Road with his 10th Championship goal of the season.
Impressively, the South American has also assisted ten Championship goals this term as well.
To register 20 goal involvements in just 28 Championship appearances is mightily impressive.
Ex-Norwich striker Cameron Jerome was also blown away by the Norwich No.17’s efforts.
The former Crystal Palace forward described Buendia as ‘instrumental’ when speaking to EFL on Quest after full-time.
In our view, Arsenal simply have to get him.
Buendia is silky and creative, but also has a tenacity commonly associated with South America attackers such as Luis Suarez and Carlos Tevez.
It feels like he’d be the ideal Santi Cazorla replacement for the Gunners.
Arteta simply cannot miss out on the Norwich talisman.
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