Arsenal will initially signal Brentford goalkeeper David Raya on a season-long loan with an choice to then make the deal everlasting in 2024, 90min understands.
Raya has made it clear that he’s prepared to take the subsequent step in his profession, with Brentford repeatedly pointing suitors to a £40m price ticket. That determine put Tottenham and Bayern Munich off pursuing a deal, however Arsenal have been ready to come to a £30m settlement earlier this week.
It isn’t a straight transfer although. 90min understands that the settlement will really see Raya signal a one-year extension to his Brentford contract in order that it then expires in the summertime of 2025 as a substitute of on the finish of this season – that might have seen him stroll away as a free agent.
He will then be part of Arsenal on loan throughout the 2023/24 season, somewhat than outright. At the tip of the loan, the Gunners may have an choice to make it everlasting for the full £30m already agreed. It isn’t, nonetheless, an obligation to purchase.
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That offers Arsenal a get out choice ought to Raya not achieve establishing himself. In the identical breath, ought to the Spaniard find yourself returning to Brentford, his worth is protected by the contract extension and they might nonetheless have the chance to command a sizeable transfer charge.
The proposed construction of the deal will financially profit Arsenal, who’ve already splashed out greater than £200m in transfer charges this summer season on Kai Havertz, Jurrien Timber and Declan Rice.
Hailing from Barcelona, Raya has spent his whole senior profession in English soccer, having moved from Catalan membership Cornella to Blackburn’s academy on the age of 16 virtually a decade in the past.
Raya then finally made greater than 100 first-team appearances for the Lancashire membership throughout League One and the Championship, earlier than becoming a member of Brentford in 2019. He helped the Bees earn promotion to the Premier League in 2021 and has been a significant factor within the membership turning into established within the prime flight for the primary time since relegation in 1947.
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