Progressing Talks between Arsenal and Joao Cancelo for Potential Transfer

Talks between Arsenal and Joao Cancelo about a possible move are progressing positively, FootballTransfers can reveal.

Mikel Arteta’s team have been interested in the Portuguese for a while and indeed, as we exclusively reported in May, Arsenal and Manchester City have been involved in transfer talks for some time with Cancelo and the Gunners left-back. , Kieran Tierney. talks.

According to our sources, talks between Arsenal and Cancelo’s team have progressed positively since May.

Man City are asking around £45 million (€53 million) for the winger, which aligns with FootballTransfers’ expected transfer value (xTV) of €55.6 million. We understand that Arsenal are set to launch an initial offer of £35m in the coming days.

The Portuguese would become the starting right-back for the Emirates, allowing Arteta to use Ben White as cover in the position and William Saliba as a centre-back.

This would mean that Arsenal would not have to plunge into the market for a central defender and could instead focus their efforts on securing a deal for Declan Rice.

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Joao moved to the Etihad in 2019 in a deal worth €65m, but Manchester City are prepared to lose to the Portuguese as head coach Pep Guardiola wants to get rid of him.

The two had a falling out and the 29-year-old was sent on loan to Bayern Munich in January, where he played a major role as the Bavarians won their 11th consecutive Bundesliga title.

The Germans, however, have no intention of keeping Cancelo permanently, at least not at City’s asking price.

Barcelona, ​​on the other hand, desperately want the player but will have to sell him first and there are doubts about City’s willingness to allow the full-back to move there, having intervened in January to halt his almost-confirmed transfer to the club. Camp Nou.

There are also some doubts regarding Arsenal. City sold Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko to the Gunners last season and inadvertently helped turn them into title contenders. Does Guardiola want to further strengthen Arsenal?