ARSENAL CLOSING IN ON €8.5M TARGET

Reports claim that Arsenal are
closing in on the €8.5m signing of
Eintracht Frankfurt defender
Sebastian Jung after his agent
confirmed our interest.

Jung has been impressing at right-

back this season and it appears

he’s caught the eye of Arsene

Wenger with the boss on the look-

out for potential replacements for

Bacary Sagna.

The French defender’s contract is

up in June and there has been no breakthrough with talks over an

extension. The closer we get to the end of the season, the more it looks

like Sagna will be off, and he’ll leave a huge void that needs to be filled.

Several names have been linked in recent months including the likes of

Seamus Coleman, Serge Aurier, Lukasz Piszczek and Daryl Janmaat, but

according to Jung’s agent, Mino Grillo, Arsenal have been scouting the

German international and have a ‘very strong’ interest in signing him this

summer.

‘In England we know Arsenal are very strongly on his trail for
the summer,’
‘They have had scouts watching him in the Bundesliga. There
is was interest in the past from Inter, Roma and Milan, but no
recent contact.’ [source: Metro]

The Metro claim that we’re ‘closing in on’ an €8.5m (£7m) move for the
23-year-old full-back with the clubs transfer fixers working on the deal
as we speak, and formal talks are expected to take place at the end of
the season to tie up the move.
I’d personally like to see Sagna sign an extension and my gut feeling is
he’ll end up staying, but it makes sense that the boss is drawing up a list
of replacements in case the worst happens and he leaves.
My preferred choice would be Seamus Coleman from Everton but I doubt
we’ll be able to persuade them to sell without having to pay a ridiculous
price.
  K C UMEOKAFOR AND JASSY NWAKPADOLU