British tabloid The People claims that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger wants to make a move for Barcelona defensive midfielder and Ivorian international Yaya Touré (24). The French manager thinks that Touré is the player who could finally succeed Patrick Vieira on the Arsenal midfield.
Wenger hopes that the appointment of Josep Guardiola as new Barcelona manager could open the door for the younger brother of Arsenal central defender Kolo Touré. Arsenal would therefore be preparing a 12,5 million euro° bid for the player.
In 2002, when playing for the Belgian club Beveren, Touré had a trial with Arsenal but Wenger decided back then not to offer the Ivorian midfielder a deal.
pep's opinion:
that fee of course is ridiculous, double that and we could be almost there. don't want the player to leave at all, but like i suggested yesterday he might not be the kind of player guardiola is looking for to fill in that position. to me, that position is one of the main question marks in the guardiola scheme: will the 'pivote' return or not?
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