Arsenal have continued to fortify their squad forward of the 2025/26 season with critical negotiations to signal Bayern Munich midfielder Joao Palhinha, Softfootball studies.
The previous Fulham midfielder have struggled for recreation time since making his huge cash swap to the Bundesliga.
In accordance with Metro UK, the Gunners are eager on the midfielder regardless of already signing Christian Norgaard from Brentford and Martin Zubimendi in the identical place following the exits of Thomas Partey and Jorginho.
The Gunners expressed sturdy curiosity in Palhinha earlier than Bayern obtained their Membership World Cup marketing campaign up and working. Mikel Arteta is pushing the membership to get the participant to hitch the squad for pre-season.
The report claims that concrete figures have been mentioned between Arsenal and Bayern Munich with a view to luring Palhinha again to Premier League soccer.
No agreements has been reached by each side as negotiations proceed.
Apparently, Inter Milan are additionally monitoring Palhinha’s state of affairs with the Bavarians and there have been different gives from England, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Portugal in current weeks.
Nevertheless, Palhinha stays eager for a profitable profession at Bayern Munich, however supply from title chasing Arsenal could assist Palhinha likelihood his thoughts about staying in Germany with out getting game-time.
Palhinha moved to Bayern for £47.4 million final season however has been stricken by harm issues throughout a irritating debut season with the Bundesliga champions. He’s at the moment competing for game-time in Bayern’s midfield with Leon Goretzka, Aleks Pavlovic, Joshua Kimmich, Konrad Laimer and new signing Tom Bischof.
Softfootball reported beforehand that Jamal Musiala obtained injured and probably out for 4 months. The Bavarians might want to get a substitute and promoting Palhinha could assist them increase funds to signal the likes of Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace that they’ve been lately linked with. Palhinha has three years left on his present deal.
Arsenal have to this point signed Martin Zubimendi, Kepa Arrizabalaga and Christian Norgaard and agreed offers for Valencia’s Cristhian Mosquera, Sporting’s Viktor Gyokeres and Chelsea’s Noni Madueke.
