La Liga star speaks out after summer transfer move to Arsenal collapsed

Espanyol goalkeeper Joan Garcia says helium ‘isolated’ himself distant from incessant rumours of a imaginable determination to Arsenal successful the summer transportation window.

Arsenal identified Garcia arsenic a imaginable replacement for Aaron Ramsdale, who near the northbound London giants to articulation Southampton aft losing his spot to David Raya successful Mikel Arteta’s starting XI.

Reports emanating from Spain indicated that Arsenal had adjacent agreed idiosyncratic presumption with Garcia’s campy implicit a projected £25million determination to the Emirates.

However, talks betwixt the 2 clubs collapsed astatine the last hurdle, with the Gunners failing to fulfill Espanyol’s hefty fiscal demands for the 23-year-old ‘keeper.

Resigned to their fate, Arsenal yet abandoned their pursuit of Garcia and alternatively wrapped up a season-long indebtedness statement for Bournemouth shot-stopper Neto.

Garcia has gone connected to commencement each but 1 of Espanyol’s games successful La Liga this play and the Spaniard insists helium has nary lingering disappointment astir Arsenal’s failed proposal.

‘I tried to isolate myself from everything that was being said,’ Garcia told Spanish work Marca.

‘I had been fixed the accidental to bash thing I had been warring for for a agelong time, which was to beryllium Espanyol’s starting goalkeeper. 

‘I couldn’t discarded this opportunity.’

Garcia, who won a golden medal with Spain astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics successful Paris, is tied into a declaration astatine Espanyol until 2028.

But aft Arsenal’s unsuccessful determination for Garcia, Espanyol’s sporting director, Fran Garagarza, refused to regularisation retired a determination for the goalkeeper astatine the extremity of the 2024/25 campaign.

‘It is thing that I deliberation should not beryllium talked astir truthful much,’ Garcia replied.

‘I effort not to fto it impact me and effort to beryllium isolated, though it is complicated.

‘I deliberation I americium handling it rather well, I cannot power it. It is not affecting me. 
Whatever volition be, volition be.’

Garcia is assured Espanyol volition travel done their sticky patch, with the nine languishing down successful 18th spot successful the Spanish apical formation up of their travel to Girona this weekend.

‘The important happening is the team’s performance,’ helium added.

‘Personally, I think I’m doing well, but I’m demanding and I deliberation I tin bash overmuch better.

‘We are precise wide that we volition get done this.

He continued: ‘We are successful the champion condition, we person made bully usage of the interruption and we are looking guardant to playing again.

‘Nobody likes to look astatine the array and spot themselves truthful acold down.

‘Now is simply a cardinal infinitesimal of the play and we indispensable marque a statement and region ourselves from the bottom.’

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