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Arsenal Make Official £6m Bid For Niang After Learning Of City’s Interest
Arsenal have made an official £6m bid for Caen youngster M’Baye Niang after learning of Manchester City’s interest in the player, according to the Mirror.
With the summer transfer window in full swing, Football Talk will be keeping you up-to-date with all the latest transfer news throughout the summer. Today, Arsenal have made an official bid for a teenage starlet.
Arsenal have made an official £6m bid for Caen youngster M’Baye Niang after learning of City’s interest in the player, according to the Mirror.
The report claims that Caen contacted the Gunners to let them know Man City were keen on flying the 17-year-old out to their training camp in Austria this week, prompting Arsenal to make an official move for the highly-rated striker.
Niang spent time on trial at Arsenal’s London Colney last week and Arsene Wenger has now offered the his club side Caen a deal worth £6m in a bid to stave off interest from the Premier League champions.
City approached Caen asking for permission to fly Niang out to Austria for a short trial with a view to sealing a permanent switch, but it’s unclear whether the player will go now that the Gunners have made their move.
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It’s likely that City will also firm up their interest in the player in the coming days and will respond to Arsenal’s move with a bid of their own, leaving Niang in a position of having to choose between the two Premier League heavy-weights.
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gunner357
July 17, 2012 at 10:33 am
hope he can get a work permit and play some carling cup matches and maybe lower table teams to sees what he’s made of or we should send him to relegated bolton they usually do wonders with our loanees. follow me @kyekye45
Mick
July 17, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Why on earth would we want to follow you?
Nasiru
July 17, 2012 at 10:33 am
Arsenal is the best club for niang to choose bcos it is the home of youth
Ivan
July 17, 2012 at 10:42 am
Gunner357, He is french and he don’t need work permit
Kunle
July 17, 2012 at 11:31 am
If d guy is very gud,we should buy him instead of been chanced off by man.city.We tend to drag our interest very slow and sluggish 4 other teams to chance us.As we are doing regardin demsey,b/4 u know it liverpool will have chanced us.he will be in liverpool scoring goals helpin his team wit points.we are just too slow when it comes to buying players in d transfer market.demsey is already use to d epl and can adapt well,so why are we wasting time to acquire his services.demsey wants to play in d champions league,he will definitely give his best to arsenal.pls,pls,pls wenger buy demsey 4 us,becos it is nt certain jack w will be able to repeat his previous performance,wenger should start planning 4 a strong team B.,and should put injuries first in his plans.
Kleef
July 17, 2012 at 11:33 am
Arsenal is the best club to develop his game and if he works hard at his game, there is no doubts, he will break into the first team.
This would be difficult with the other clubs.
prayer
July 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Arsene shld b fast in securing Niang’s service,he’s an exciting kid 2 watch
shola
July 17, 2012 at 12:13 pm
The right place for niang to develop is game and become a supper star is ARSENAL FC, he is a good talent, mr wenger should act fast before the deal will be hIjerck .
jk
July 17, 2012 at 12:33 pm
once again we will buy young develop into a star and sell for profit this club is driving me mad!! why wudnt he spend the 6 million on affelay proven world class and only 26 and needs no developing greedy board cant make money selling on thats why
brinny
July 17, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Wenger shuld act fast nd pick up diz talent coz i hav sm clips of his football.he looks an exciting talent.plus arsenal will provide a platform 4 him 2 develop into a world class player.follow me@iambrinny
brinny
July 17, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Wenger shuld act fast nd pick up diz talent coz i hav sm clips of his football.he looks an exciting talent.plus arsenal will provide a platform 4 him 2 develop into a world class beater.follow @iambrinny
deshola
July 17, 2012 at 3:37 pm
If this news is correct, why man city officials are so selfish and clueless that they can’t think on their own..is like they have an agent(s) on their pay roll employed just to watch arsenal every move. man city is classless and clueless
Khalid
July 17, 2012 at 9:51 pm
NEVER heard of him but given his tender age, his development will be best suited @ Arsenal. Man City have TOO many players ahead of him, cant see him getting into the team there.
Mattz
July 18, 2012 at 6:29 am
Somebody should tell d lil kid about Adam Johnson. May b dat will help him chose Arsenal over classless, clueless city.