After landing the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years last season, Arsenal may have thought that procuring elite-level players would be that much easier this summer.
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Why wouldn’t anyone want to come to a club that played brilliant football throughout 2025/26, thoroughly deserving their league title, and weren’t beaten over 90 minutes in the entire Champions League campaign, only to lose the final on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain?
Man Utd and Liverpool’s interest in Barcola could see Arsenal go for Williams
It’s the French giants who have one of the Gunners’ long-term transfer targets currently in situ, in Bradley Barcola, but it seems as if the Frenchman could be off to Premier League rivals, Man Utd or Liverpool.
Though any deal to take the 23-year-old to North London isn’t dead in the water just yet, it’s clearly going to be more difficult to land him now than it would’ve been a few short weeks ago.
After landing the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years last season, Arsenal may have thought that procuring elite-level players would be that much easier this summer.
Listen to this article on Spotify here.
Why wouldn’t anyone want to come to a club that played brilliant football throughout 2025/26, thoroughly deserving their league title, and weren’t beaten over 90 minutes in the entire Champions League campaign, only to lose the final on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain?
Man Utd and Liverpool’s interest in Barcola could see Arsenal go for Williams
It’s the French giants who have one of the Gunners’ long-term transfer targets currently in situ, in Bradley Barcola, but it seems as if the Frenchman could be off to Premier League rivals, Man Utd or Liverpool.
Though any deal to take the 23-year-old to North London isn’t dead in the water just yet, it’s clearly going to be more difficult to land him now than it would’ve been a few short weeks ago.
With Leandro Trossard having been sold and Arsenal potentially preferring someone other than Gabriel Martinelli out on their left, it’s clear that signing a wide man remains a priority.
What isn’t clear at this stage is whether Williams would rebuff the Gunners in the same way he did Barcelona, when it looked for all the world as though he would be signing for the Catalans.
New season starts in a month
The new Premier League season starts in a month, and notwithstanding that an injury-prone Williams is due a rest after his World Cup exertions, Arsenal will want to know how the land lies as quickly as possible.
Aside from the various injury problems that saw him miss 19 matches last season, and which have to be a consideration when making a final decision on him, what would the North Londoners be getting for their money?
