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Rio Ferdinand reacts to Arsenal links with Jesse Lingard

Rio Ferdinand that Arsenal fans would tear the Emirates apart if Mikel Arteta decided to sign Jesse Lingard this summer.

Lingard has become one of the mo🌱st talked-about players in the Premier League during the second-half of the campaign. He has scored eight goals in nine games since joining Westဣ Ham on loan in January.

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His form is attracting attention from elsewhereꦆ. that Arsenal were one of thꦿe teams keen on the 28-year-old.

It was noted that Arteta had also wanted him in January. that the Gunners would be able to meet his £110,000ꩵ-a-week wage demands.

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Plenty of Arsenal fans were in favour of the club targeting Lingard off the▨ back of his amazing loan spell. However, a quick look on social media would suggest that many are not as keen.

Lingard ಌclearly annoyed many supporters with 🌟his celebration in an FA Cup tie in North London in 2019. And Ferdinand suggested that the move would not be well-received at all.

“They wouldn’t have him there, the way he moonwalked off that pitch once, they wouldn’t have it,” when asked about the lꦐinks. “Th𒉰e fans would rip the place apart. He disrespected the Emirates in a way that’s never been seen.”

You can understand why Arsenal supporters ⛄may ha🦹ve other doubts about Lingard. No one saw his inspired form at West Ham coming – surely not even David Moyes.

He turns 29 before the turn of the yea🔯r. And he scored just five league goals across the previous two campaigns.

So it could stilಌl be deemed a gamꦯble to make a move – even off the back of such an outstanding spell.