Transfer news - Arsenal make concrete offer to Serie A club Sassuolo for Manuel Locatelli, battling with Juventus
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ByEurosport
Updated 01/07/2021 at 09:53 GMT
An AC Milan academy graduate, Manuel Locatelli made 63 appearances for Milan from 2015 to 2018 before moving to Sassuolo on loan with an obligation to buy ahead of the 2018/19 campaign. After impressing at the Serie A club, Sassuolo signed him permanently and there has been keen interest from clubs within Italy and abroad ever since. One of those clubs is Arsenal.
Manuel Locatelli
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Arsenal have made a concrete offer for Sassuolo midfielder Manuel Locatelli, according to the Serie A club's sporting director.
The 23-year-old has been one of Italy's standout performers at Euro 2020 and scored twice in their 3-0 group stage victory over Switzerland.
Locatelli is expected to move this summer and Sassuolo sporting director Giovanni Carnevali says Juventus and Arsenal are the frontrunners to land him.
"Juventus are the only Italian club we talked to about Locatelli," Carnevali told Sky in Italy.
"We met last week with (Juventus sporting director Federico) Cherubini.
"There is interest from their side, we haven't explored all the terms and evaluations, but we have an excellent relationship with Juventus so we will continue these talks.
It's true that other clubs from abroad are interested, Arsenal are one of these and they are ahead of everyone else because they tabled the only concrete offer we have received so far.
Arsenal have been linked with Brighton defender Ben White and Benfica left-back Nuno Tavares in recent weeks, but are yet to make a signing this transfer window.
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