Arsenal are holding out for £30m for Eddie Nketiah after rejecting a third bid from Marseille for the striker last week.
Arsenal have received three bids from Marseille for Eddie Nketiah this summer, but they’ve turned all three down.
Simon Jones reports for the Daily Mail that the Gunners are holding out for £30m for the striker, with Marseille’s biggest bid so far only coming to slightly over £23m.
There’s evidently still a valuation gap to be bridged, and it’s unclear whether the Ligue 1 side are still willing to do so.
Marseille initially made two bids in the region of €20m (£17.2m), with David Ornstein reporting that though the value of the second bid wasn’t too dissimilar to the first, the formula of the deal was more acceptable to Arsenal.
Yet the valuation remained an issue, so Fabrizio Romano then reported that Marseille had returned with a third bid of €27m (£23.2m). Once again, Arsenal turned it down.
Nketiah has reportedly already agreed a five-year contract with Marseille, and he’s keen to join Roberto De Zerbi’s team. But with Arsenal sticking to their £30m valuation, there’s still work to do, and a real risk that Marseille walk away.
Nketiah made 37 appearances for Arsenal last season, though just 13 of those were starts. The striker has featured in all of the Gunners’ pre-season friendlies so far, with a little under a fortnight to go until the start of the new Premier League campaign.