Arsenal transfer news: Gunners to battle Tottenham for £25m Morgan Schneiderlin in the summer

 
Sam Wallace7 January 2015

Arsenal will continue their interest in the £25m-rated Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, although the club expects that a deal for the Frenchman would only be realistic in the summer rather than the January transfer window.

Schneiderlin, 25, is the club’s first choice for the defensive midfield role that needs addressing as a matter of urgency in the current transfer window.

They have been linked with a number of targets including Newcastle’s Moussa Sissoko, William Carvalho of Sporting Lisbon, Saint Etienne’s Loïc Perrin and Seville’s Grzegorz Krychowiak but as of Tuesday the club’s only imminent signing was the Polish teenager Krystian Bielik.

Schneiderlin is also a major target for Tottenham in the summer and it is anticipated that he will have to make a decision between the two north London rivals.

Bielik, 17, currently at Legia Warsaw, visited the Arsenal training ground last month and is considered one for the future once the club get a deal through for him that could be worth up to £2m for his Polish club. An initial bid for the player from Arsenal has already been rejected.

Meanwhile Bielik’s compatriot Wojciech Szczesny has found himself in trouble once again. The Arsenal goalkeeper was caught smoking in the showers after his errors against Southampton in the Premier League defeat on New Year’s Day.

Arsène Wenger is understood to have taken a very dim view of the situation and Szczesny will be fined by the club. David Ospina featured in goal against Hull City in the FA Cup on Sunday.

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