Arsenal eye wonderkid, 16, in cut-price transfer despite having five stars in same position

Arsenal are successful the marketplace for a caller striker this month, but the nine are besides scouring the globe for much apical young prospects who could spell connected to prima for Mikel Arteta's squad successful the future

Arsenal are among the apical European clubs presently tracking Adana Demirspor’s teenage goalkeer, Deniz Donmezer.

Like plentifulness of their Premier League rivals, Arsenal are ever keeping an oculus retired for immoderate of Europe's champion prospects. And Donmezer, 16, has emerged arsenic 1 of the astir breathtaking young goalkeeper's around.

Despite his tender age, Donmezer has already made 17 elder appearances for Adana, who play successful the Turkish Super Lig.

And it's been claimed that Arsenal have already lodged an connection for the talented teenager - adjacent though they person a fig of promising young keepers connected already connected the books.

That's according to Adana's erstwhile vice-president, Metin Korkmaz, who said: "Arsenal person sent an authoritative connection of €3m (£2.5million). According to this offer, they volition wage the money, but Deniz volition play with america connected indebtedness for a twelvemonth and a half. Then helium would articulation Arsenal."

While Donmezer would stay successful Turkey for different 18 months per the presumption of the connection arsenic revealed by Korkmaz, Arsenal's involvement successful the shot-stopper comes conscionable months aft they snapped up Tommy Setford, 18, from Ajax.

The England younker planetary is regarded arsenic a apical imaginable and 1 for the future. 16-year-old Jack Porter is besides highly-rated and made his elder debut earlier this play successful the Carabao Cup.

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Karl Kein, 22, has implicit 30 elder caps for Estonia and is connected indebtedness astatine Real Valladoid. David Raya and Neto, connected indebtedness from Bournemouth, are the club's 2 elder keepers.

While involvement successful Donmezer, confirmed successful a caller study by The Mail, is apt connected the docket for the future, Arsenal possibly perchance person issues successful extremity sooner aft Raya missed the 2-1 triumph implicit Girona successful the Champions League connected Wednesday night.

The Spaniard was deemed 'not acceptable enough' by Arteta to commencement the lucifer with Neto deputising. And Arteta was giving small distant astir his presumption for Sunday's crippled with Manchester City.

He said post-match: “He (Raya) surely could not play, helium is injured and that is it.”

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