According to reportsThe Gunners won the Premier League last season as Mikel Arteta guided them to their first title in 22 years, while they also reached the Champions League final.
The club have improved their midfielder with Bruno Guimaraes arriving from Newcastle United and Christian Norgaard leaving to join Everton.
Zubimendi was a key cog in Arteta’s engine room last season but the Spaniard faded as the campaign went on, probably due to the demands of playing so many matches.
Guimaraes and other midfielders are expected to get more minutes than Zubimendi this season and that has so far played out in their first two matches against Chelsea in the Community Shield final and the first game of the Premier League against Coventry.
Zubimendi came off the bench in both matches and now reports in Spain are claiming that a move to Real Madrid, who missed out on Rodri to Barcelona, could now be on the cards for the Spaniard.
Despite Arteta ruling out a transfer publicly, the report insists that ‘rather than spend his time on the bench, he’d prefer to leave the Emirates Stadium’
The report adds: ‘And those at the Santiago Bernabéu seem willing to pursue his arrival, hoping to rectify the tremendous mistake they made a year ago when they let him slip away, even though it was a personal request from Xabi Alonso.’
And the transfer is said to have ‘have the approval of Mourinho, and also of Zubimendi’ with Arsenal ‘willing to negotiate Zubimendi’s departure’ but won’t accept anything less than €75m.
Post a Comment