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Asano delays meeting up with national team ahead of move

Takuma Asano will not travel to Rio with the Japanese Olympic team prompting speculation that he will be swinging past Arsenal to get a few snaps of him in an Arsenal kit first on his way to Brazil.

Asano has already played his final game for Sanfrecce Hiroshima but a report on the Japanese site, JFA, claims he will meet up with the national side at a later date due to his ‘club schedule’.

The 21-year-old had been expected to be sent out on loan but that isn’t as foregone a conclusion as it seemed a few weeks ago. His work permit will have to be sorted, of course, and there’s no guarantee that he will be granted a ‘special talent’ visa by the Home Office.

If he isn’t, the club will have no option but to send him on loan and hope that, in a post-Brexit England, a Spanish passport will get him into the UK to work.

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