Yoane Wissa has admitted everyone at Brentford is prepared for Ivan Toney to leave this summer, but links to Arsenal appear to be fading.

BRENTFORD, ENGLAND - JANUARY 20: Ivan Toney of Brentford moves the ball before taking and scoring a free-kick for his sides first goal during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Nottingham Forest at Gtech Community Stadium on January 20, 2024 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)
BRENTFORD, ENGLAND: Ivan Toney of Brentford moves the ball before taking and scoring a free-kick for his sides first goal during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Nottingham Forest at Gtech Community Stadium on January 20, 2024. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Ivan Toney has long been linked with a summer transfer away from current club Brentford, and teammate Yoane Wissa has admitted everyone is ready for him to go.

“Everyone is prepared for that,” Wissa said. “It’s football life. Ivan is not immortal. We need to change at some point and [new signing Thiago] will bring the team higher.

“I always joke (with Toney): ‘Ah, you want to go, do you, yes?’

“It’s his last season, hopefully, if everything goes well. I always want people to be happy. After his ban, everyone wants him to be happy. Thomas [Frank] wants to keep him. Hopefully he will leave on a high.”

BRENTFORD, ENGLAND - JANUARY 20: Brentford Manager Thomas Frank celebrates his sides victory with player of the Match Ivan Toney during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Nottingham Forest at Gtech Community Stadium on January 20, 2024 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)
BRENTFORD, ENGLAND: Brentford Manager Thomas Frank celebrates his sides victory with player of the Match Ivan Toney during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Nottingham Forest at Gtech Community Stadium on January 20, 2024. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Arsenal have been among those credited with an interest in Toney for a while, but those rumours have appeared to die down in recent months.

In February, David Ornstein reported that whilst Arsenal were indeed looking at the centre-forward position, there were no guarantees of a move for Toney.

At the time, Ornstein wrote that he was “not aware of Toney being the top choice at Arsenal”.

A month later, Alex Crook reported for talkSPORT that Arsenal were turning to other targets, with West Ham United more likely to move for Toney.

Tom Canton of Football.London suggested that Arsenal were focusing more on a younger striker profile, with Toney now 28.

Brentford's Ivan Toney reacts as he attends the English League Cup third-round football match between Brentford and Arsenal at the Brentford Community Stadium in London on September 27, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Brentford’s Ivan Toney reacts as he attends the English League Cup third-round football match between Brentford and Arsenal at the Brentford Community Stadium in London on September 27, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Toney hasn’t hidden his desire to leave Brentford, and earlier this year he responded in a spiky manner to manager Thomas Frank suggesting that he would probably leave in the summer.

“I see that as he doesn’t want me,” Toney said then. “Well yeah, the manager’s said what he’s said.

“Listen, I can’t make clubs come and get me. I’ve just got to keep doing what I do and that’s score goals. Like I said, what will be, will be.”

The striker has four goals and one assist in 14 games for Brentford this season, following his gambling suspension in the first half of the campaign.