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‘We have to be realistic’: Boss suggests club will consider offers for Arsenal-linked 17-assist star
Reported Arsenal target Emiliano Buendia has enjoyed a superb season for Norwich, helping the club back to the Premier League.
The 24-year-old was heavily linked with the Gunners going into the January transfer window.
And March, claimed that Arsenal were planning to make an offer for Buendia in the summer.
Things may have got a little more complicated for the Gunners now that the Canaries have been promoted from the Championship.
However, Daniel Farke says Norwich will consider offers for Buendia and other stars – but only if they’re a “crazy” amount.
“We have to be realistic, we are a self-funding club and will always have to develop our players,” he told .
“Sometimes you also have to accept if a player has outgrown the club, then there is a solution.
“We had this in the past with James Maddison, when without the transfer fee it would have been difficult to keep the club going.
“Now, though, we are in a much better position.
“We are not struggling financially anymore and are ourselves playing on the big stage of Premier League level, for that I am not in fear that a player of this category has to leave.
“They are all on long-term contracts, so if a club really wants to buy one of our key players, they have to invest an unbelievable amount of money, and it would be pretty difficult.
“But if there is a club which wants to do this and put some crazy offers out, then it is more like you can also use this money to improve and move on as a club.
“As a head coach, though, my first topic is that I want to work with our best players.”
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Buendia is a player of the highest calibre who looks destined for a career at the top of the game, his helping Norwich back into the top flight at the first attempt.
Just this week, he was voted the Championship Player of the Season and Norwich’s Player of the Season, testament to his heroics this term.
However, £40million to £50million was the price tag reported by back in January – and this could well go up now Norwich are back in the top flight.