Arsenal have been handed a transfer boost over their pursuit of Villarreal forward Yeremy Pino with the Spanish club in need of funds.
The Yellow Submarine are in need of a high-profile summer sale due to their failure to qualify for this season’s Champions League and they had been expecting to sell defender Pau Torres to Manchester United. Indeed, the player’s representatives were planning to go to England to wrap up the transfer before the move collapsed.
New United boss Erik ten Hag overruled the club’s recruitment department over the signing of a new central defender this summer, opting instead to sign Lisandro Martinez from Ajax – ironically beating the Gunners to the signing of the Argentine international. That has left Villarreal keen to complete a revenue-raising sale in the closing weeks of the summer transfer window.
