Arsenal planning to offload some of their top earners at the club.
The Gunners are plotting to sell French striker Alexandre Lacazette who has been their top scorer last season with 17 goals to his name.
Mikel Arteta wants a huge revamp in the squad this summer and wants to sell some high-profile players to fund the signings the manager wants.
“Arsenal are desperately, desperately, and as we said aggressively, marketing some of their higher-paid players in order to put money back into the budget with regards to how the club moves forward,” Ian McGarry told the Transfer Window Podcast.
“Alexandre Lacazette is one of the players they are desperate to sell. In doing so they would get a transfer fee; they don’t mind if the fee was obviously less than what they paid for the player.
“Because his contract is so expensive, they would happily accept a lower fee in order to get him off the wage bill, and in doing so make room for younger players who Mikel Arteta has identified as the future of Arsenal, rather than the present or the past. So Arsenal [are] very much in a position where they need to sell before they can buy.”
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