Arsenal lost to Manchester City when it came in January SIGNING of Vitor Reis, after it was revealed that the Gunners had identified the protection of the adolescent center as a target month ago.
Reis tried joining City, part of a 170m spray on Premier League reigning champions after seeing their season to go into smoke and need long -term reconstruction.
The city paid only shy of £ 30m To sign the 19-year-old from Palmeiras, eventually stealing a march in Arsenal to reach the first deal.
Mikel Arteta's side did not recruit in January. An opportunistic approach to Aston striker Villa Ollie Watkins came out from nowhere to the end of the month and eventually failed but Athletic It writes that long -term development players had been the main goal early.
Reis is said to have been elected as a “primary objective” along with 18-year-old Norwegian midfielder Sverre Nypan. Arsenal The scouts had watched Reis personally during a Palmeiras game in early November, part of the “wide” monitoring and at the time were seen as “its destination with many possibilities”.
But the Gunners were reluctant when Bukayo Saka and then Gabriel Jesus were injured, opening up an internal debate on how to better use the available budget. The artifacts are said to have been concerned about spending up to 30 million ON in Reis when its immediate impact would be minimal.
city jumped in front of Arsenal during that period, The end of their reis capture on January 21. But even without spending on the developing defender, or really Nypan – who has delayed his decision to transfer until summer – no offensive approach was even successful.
The possibility of lowering watkins, the subject IA Lowball opening offerIt was taken from the table by Aston Villa after Jhon Duran was sold in Al Nassr. The constant interest in Alexander Isaac remains unjustable, with Benjamin Sessko not interested in leaving RB Leipzig in the middle of the season.
Arsenal was also associated with former Benim Dusan Vlahovic, but that always seemed more speculative, based on his possible availability from Juventus and the past interest.