5 sensible transfers Arsenal need to make this summer
By Nayan Dey
- 2. Nabil Fekir
The France international Nabil Fekir has been Olympique Lyonnais’s star playmaker for past couple of seasons in the French Ligue 1 as well as in the UEFA Champions League.
The French World Cup winner came agonisingly close to joining Liverpool FC in 2018 for a deal worth $57m. After Fekir had failed his medical the English giants immediately pulled out of the transfer talks.
Infamous reports about Nabil Fekir’s troubled knee injury issues shattered the dreams of him moving to the Premier League in 2018. He went on to lift the FIFA World Cup with his French national side in that summer.
The Frenchman remained at Lyon after a speculative summer and continued to show his class on the pitch throughout the season with no signs of injury scares.
Nabil Fekir is now entering into the final year of his contract with the French side Lyon and has indicated that he would like to move on to a new challenge.
With Liverpool not interested in pursuing Fekir anymore, perhaps the chances are clear for Arsenal to pounce. It would be like rubbing salt on the wounds of Liverpool fans (who desperately wanted the deal to go through) if the French star hits the ground running for their league rivals.
Nabil Fekir has a wicked left foot and just like Gunners’ heavily linked transfer target Hakim Ziyech of Champions League semi-finalists AFC Ajax, he’s versatile enough to play effectively anywhere in the front line for Arsenal.
He would cost the Gunners a lot lesser (a deal worth less than $30 million) than what their league rivals Liverpool were willing to pay last year.