Football transfer rumours: Anthony Martial to Arsenal?

Today’s fluff is covered in dripping

Milan haven’t made a statement on the football pitch for quite some time and having had an underwhelming start to the season, that doesn’t look like changing any time soon. So, instead, they’ll focus on making a statement off it. Specifically, by channelling all their efforts into winning the January transfer window. The club’s new owner, Li Yonghong, has spent a good few months seeing how modern football works. And having grasped the concept of spending vast amounts of money on often fallible young men, he’ll order a crane to dump £80m outside the Etihad Stadium in exchange for Sergio Agüero, a player who could seemingly deliver 100 goals in a season and the moon on a stick to Pep Guardiola only to be met with a shrug.

The Italians could be done a huge favour if Arsenal accept Manchester City’s £20m offer for soon-to-be-out-of-contract Alexis Sánchez in January. And let’s be realistic, after turbo-charged full-backs, scurrying fake nines are Guardiola’s favourite kind of player. And if he can get shut of a cold-eyed centre-forward in the process then all the better. City will also trigger Sergi Roberto’s £40m Barcelona release clause in January because he’s a wing-back and Guardiola can’t help himself.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2xsI85A