Eddie Nketiah will STAY at Arsenal for rest of season as Mikel Arteta rules out January transfer for wantaway striker

MIKEL ARTETA has dominated out a January transfer for Eddie Nketiah and insists the want-away striker will stay at Arsenal for the remainder of the season.

The 22-year-old is out of contract in the summertime and has resisted all of the membership’s efforts to signal a brand new deal.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has dominated out a January switch exit for Eddie NketiahCredit score: Getty

The striker might be a free agent in the summertime and is needed by Crystal Palace and BrightonCredit score: Rex

But Arteta has made it clear that he would quite lose the participant for nothing than threat leaving his Arsenal squad in need of attacking choices for the remainder of the present marketing campaign.

He mentioned: “The scenario is that Eddie is our participant, he’s beneath contract so he's going to remain right here with us.”

That’s unhealthy information for Crystal Palace and Brighton, who had been each weighing up a £10million transfer for England Below-21 worldwide Nketiah in the course of the present switch window.

However with Alexandre Lacazette additionally out of contract in the summertime and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s future up within the air after his current disciplinary points, Arteta is refusing to rule out signing one other striker this month.

Fiorentina’s Dusan Vlahovic has emerged as Arsenal’s primary goal regardless of a price ticket which is more likely to exceed £50million.

And Arteta dismisses strategies that the Serbian worldwide  won't think about Arsenal as a sufficiently big membership for the subsequent stage of his profession.

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He mentioned: “Traditionally this membership has at all times focused the perfect gamers on the planet and they're at all times occupied with coming right here.

“And that scenario has not modified. Anytime I've spoken to any participant, they had been so keen to return to Arsenal.

“I haven’t confronted some other scenario and that’s considered one of our greatest powers, our capability to get the eye of individuals to return and be a part of our membership.

“It’s one thing that could be a huge benefit for us and we now have a method of how we need to evolve and enhance the group.

“At any time when that's potential we are going to attempt to do it however we all know that this market is extraordinarily tough.”

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