Arsenal exit talked up as agent urges table-topping club to sign £20m man in January

Fri 15 November 2024 9:45, UK

The transfer speculation surrounding Arsenal’s £20 Premier League benchwarmer continues to ramp up week by week.

And, with the January transfer window now just a month and ❀a half away, the lack of opportuni🉐ties afforded to him by Mikel Arteta will serve only to amplify the uncertainty.

Jakub Kiwior h🎐as not started a single Arsenal game all season i🐻n England’s top-flight.

The Poland international made headlines for all the wrong reasons in that 2-0 defeat at Bo🌳urnemouth in October, stepping onto the pitch after William Saliba’s red card and helping to gift Andoni Iraola’s side their crucial second goal.

Kiwior’s most recent top-flight out𝔍ing, meanwhile, came about due to an injury Gabriel Magalhaes picked up during the enthralling 2-2 draw with league leaders Liverpool.

TBR understands that Kiwior has now told Arsenal tha🐼t a transfer appeals to him. Juventus, undeಌr the stewardship of his former Spezia boss Thiago Motta, are keen.

Reigning Italian champions Inter Milan are also in the mix, alongside a Bologna outfit෴ who lost their first-choice left-sided centre-back Riccardo Calafiori to Arsenal over the summer.

But while a potential switch🌜 to Napoli remains purely hypothetical for the time being, one Italian agent with strong connections at the 2023 Scudetto winners believes that Antonio Conte should be returning to North London during the January window.

“Napoli’s winter market? If I had to decide in Jan⛄uary, I would take Kiwior,” Mario Giuffredi tells .

Giuffredi, who represents Napoli trio Matteo Politano, Giovanni di Lorenzo and Michael Folorunsho and formerly worked with left-back Mario Rui, is not the only one who feels Kiwior should swap the Emirates for the Stadio Diego Armando Ma🦩radona.

Stefano Chisoli, his former president at Spezia, believes that, with Conte shifting from his trademark back three to a back four, Kiwior’s versat♕ility and left-footedness would༒ benefit Napoli greatly.

Napoli went into🐎 the November international break top of the standings. The Partenopei also have 💙the second best defensive record in the division, despite a recent 3-0 hammering by Atalanta.

“I expected an e༒xciting and warlike Napoli, not 🦩a Napoli in first place,” Giuffredi adds, Conte immediately sparking a title charge only months after a dismal 10th place finish.

“There has been a radical change from a technical point of view and that’s normal. [But] when you start a new proꦉject, you can’t expect these results already.

“Di Lorenzo? If the results are these, then staying in Naples was the best choi🏅c🥃e.”

Arsenal, meanwhile, are a𝐆lready on the pursuit of potential replacements should Kiwior depart.🦩 Nantes’ Nathan Zeze and Valencia’s Christian Mosquera have admirers at the Emirates.

Arsenal also like Palmeiras youngster Vitor Reis, wit💃h the Brazilian’s representative admitting that a departure from South America is ‘inevitable’ in the near future.

Reis is expected to cost around £30 million. The Gunners will be hoping to make a similar fee for Kiwior, with four years still left on the contract he signed back in Januaꦇry 2023.

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Arsenal exit talked up as agent urges table-topping club to sign £20m man in January