Manchester United legend Paul Scholes claims Arsenal are making a significant transfer mistake with one \u2018agreed\u2019 summer signing.<\/p>\n
This season, the Gunners have been comfortably beaten by Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title<\/strong> <\/a>as they have declined under Mikel Arteta<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Arsenal<\/strong> <\/a>have also come up short in other competitions in another trophyless season and they need to be busy in the transfer market this summer.<\/p>\n It has been widely reported that their top priority is to sign a new striker, while they could also do with signing an upgrade on Gabriel Martinelli amid interest in Athletic Club\u2019s Nico Williams.<\/p>\n The Gunners are also understood to be targeting players in other areas and Fabrizio Romano has revealed that they have already \u2018agreed\u2019 a deal to land long-term target Martin Zubimendi, who has a \u00a351m release clause.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Antony and De Bruyne to Arsenal? Six Premier League rejects Mikel Arteta should consider signing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Earlier this month, Romano revealed:\u00a0\u201cArsenal agree deal to sign Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, here we go!<\/p>\n \u201cZubimendi has now verbally agreed to sign a long term deal\u2026 so formal steps must follow soon with Arsenal to trigger \u20ac60m clause.<\/p>\n \u201cZubi, ready to become the first signing of the new season.\u201d<\/p>\n Scholes has explained why he is unsure on Zubimendi after he \u201cwasn\u2019t impressed\u201d when he played for Real Sociedad against Man Utd in the Europa League.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat hole is Martin Zubimendi going to fill? I don\u2019t see a hole there,\u201d Scholes said on The Overlap.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think Declan Rice can do that role [defensive midfielder]. Everyone seems to see Rice as more of an attacking player, I don\u2019t see that in him at all. I don\u2019t see it in him.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw Zubimendi against United for Sociedad and I wasn\u2019t impressed. That\u2019s maybe where I\u2019m coming from in terms of doubting he can fill that hole.\u201d<\/p>\n Gary Neville disagrees, though. He is \u201creally surprised\u201d by Scholes\u2019 stance as they \u201cneed\u201d Zubimendi.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m surprised you say that, I\u2019m really surprised you say that,\u201d Neville added.<\/p>\n MORE ARSENAL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> \u201cI genuinely don\u2019t believe Rice or Partey are anywhere near as good at receiving the ball as some of the other midfielders in the Premier League.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Declan Rice is a brilliant player and Thomas Partey is a very good player but I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve got anyone who can control a football match properly in the top games.<\/p>\n \u201cI think they really struggle with that. I think Jorginho is the best of them. I\u2019m surprised you don\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n \u201cThey need someone to control the ball and keep it moving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United legend Paul Scholes claims Arsenal are making a significant transfer mistake with one \u2018agreed\u2019 summer signing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[161,225,23497,12,18597,101,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-100530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-martin-zubimendi","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-paul-scholes","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114505714507001603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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