Reported Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers target Maxi Gomez will not be leaving Valencia in the January transfer window, as reported by Super Deporte.
If Mikel Arteta or Nuno Espirito Santo want to test their coaching chops in European football next season, they need to find a goal-scorer from somewhere…and fast.
Wolves have drawn a blank in both their games since Raul Jimenez’s horror injury, while Arsenal were kept off the scoresheet yet again by a rugged and disciplined Burnley side on Sunday night.
Another defeat at the Emirates, their fourth in succession, left the misfiring Gunners 15th in the table with only three clubs having scored fewer than their ten goals in 12 league matches.
The Mail reported last week that both Arsenal and Wolves were keen on Maxi Gomez, a Uruguayan targetman who became Valencia’s record signing when they snapped him up from Celta Vigo in a £40 million deal last year.
But, according to reports on the Castellon coast, Gomez is not going anywhere this winter.
Cash-strapped Valencia flogged Rodrigo Moreno, Ferran Torres, Francois Coquelin and even captain Dani Parejo to raise funds over the summer. But Super Deporte believe the barrel-chested 24-year-old will not be following in their footsteps.
This is largely because no club, even those who benefit from the riches only Premier League football can offer, are willing to pay the fee required to sign a striker with a £125 million release clause in his contract.
A physical number nine who shares a few similarities with Jimenez and former Arsenal front man Olivier Giroud, Gomez has scored just three times in 11 La Liga matches this season.
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