Arsenal make offer for Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca

Scamacca scored 16 goals in Serie A in 36 appearances last season.

Arsenal have made an offer for Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca.

According to Sportitalia, Scamacca has declined a move to the North London club after the Gunners made a £35 million bid to sign him.

As per the reports of according to Sportitalia’s Alfredo Pedulla, Arsenal were keeping tabs on the striker during his breakthrough season at Sassuolo and have made an offer of £35 million-plus bonuses in ‘recent weeks’.

Scamacca scored 16 goals in Serie A in 36 appearances last season. He is believed to have rebuffed Arsenal’s offer in the hope of signing for an Italian giant this summer.

In reference to the Arsenal deal, La Gazetta dello Sport claims that ‘the train stopped almost immediately as the ‘patient’ 23-year-old ‘wants to give priority to any proposals from Serie A’.

The Gunners are in need of a striker having let both Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette leave the club in 2022.

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