After Kai Havertz joined in the summer, Arsenal is rumored to be interested in another Chelsea player.
If Chelsea were to convince the Gunners to sign Marc Cucurella, Chelsea manager Todd Boehly might earn almost £100 million from the club in less than a year. It is said that Mikel Arteta is monitoring the left-back, who might go from Stamford Bridge to the Emirates Stadium with Kai Havertz if a deal is reached in the summer.
Cucurella earlier this season showed signs of a player gaining confidence after a difficult start to the Chelsea season. But in December, an ankle injury that required surgery stopped any momentum in its tracks.
The issue is projected to keep him out of action until March at the earliest, almost certainly ruling out a move away from west London this month. But Arsenal boss Arteta is reportedly tracking the 25-year-old with a view to swooping at the end of the season.
According to journalist Simon Phillips, whispers linking Cucurella to the Gunners are ‘bubbling up’. But Arteta surely couldn’t be foolish enough to make the same mistake twice.
As would be the case with Cucurella, the Arsenal boss signed Havertz in the hope that he could take a struggling Chelsea star and turn him into a world beater. His experiment set club chiefs back an eye-watering £65million, and it hasn’t worked so far.
Havertz’s wastefulness in front of goal was on full display in the Gunners’ 2-0 defeat at home to Liverpool on Monday, with a host of missed chances seeing Arsenal crash out of the FA Cup in the third round.
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