Arsenal given hope in £25m transfer chase as club chief admits deal could happen

Arsenal tried - and failed - with bids to motion Espanyol goalkeeper Joan Garcia successful the summertime transportation model but it's present been hinted that helium volition beryllium sold erstwhile the clip is right

Espanyol manager Fran Garagarza has admitted that Arsenal people Joan Garcia could inactive permission the club.

The Gunners were heavy linked with the Spanish goalkeeper passim the summertime transportation model aft identifying Garcia arsenic their apical target to regenerate Aaron Ramsdale. However, they failed to conscionable the 23-year-old's £25million merchandise clause.

Arsenal went connected to motion Neto from Bournemouth connected indebtedness for the play after selling Ramsdale to Southampton - but they could yet rekindle their involvement successful Garcia adjacent year.

And Garagarza has present fixed the Gunners immoderate gentle encouragement aft suggesting that Espanyol are unfastened to selling Garcia astatine the close time, though it remains to beryllium seen erstwhile that volition be.

In an interrogation with AS, Garagarza said: “If you consciousness that determination volition beryllium maturation and performance, possibly the existent 1 could beryllium a merchantability of a subordinate without reaching completion. For this exercise, we person understood that Joan is an plus and that helium is indispensable to execute the nonsubjective due to the fact that helium acts successful a precise circumstantial position. We could not weaken there, we couldn’t.

“The involvement successful him is not going to stop. The clip to merchantability Joan whitethorn beryllium astatine different time.”

While Garcia was the taxable of changeless speculation linking him with a determination to the Premier League, the £25m-rated goalkeeper stresses helium was ne'er distracted. He won golden successful the Paris Olympics portion representing Spain successful the summertime and portion the last days of the model were stressful, helium wasn't overawed by the situation.

He told Mundo Deportivo: “During the full marketplace I was rather isolated. I was astatine the Olympic Games and erstwhile I arrived La Liga was already starting. The past fewer days were much intense, but I was precise isolated, focusing connected what I had to do, which is the field. I managed not to get distracted.

“Regarding my continuity, I americium precise blessed that radical are blessed that I person stayed. I person worked each these years for this – playing with Espanyol successful the First Division – and this is however it is. I anticipation to instrumentality vantage of it.

“With the Olympic Games I came erstwhile the play was already beginning. I’ve hardly had clip to deliberation astir it. It was the accidental I’ve been moving for, and I couldn’t spend to person my caput retired of it. Everything comes to you, but I had to beryllium precise calm with my caput wherever it should be.”

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