
There’s an impressive list of free agents available to be snaffled up at the end of the current season, as it stands. Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Lionel Messi, Son Heung-min, Kevin De Bruyne, Leroy Sane, Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Angel Gomes… the list goes on.
After seeing Kylian Mbappe happily run down his contract at PSG and scoop a monstrous signing-on fee from Real Madrid in lieu of a transfer fee for the Parisiens, that’s got FourFourTwo thinking about something Arsene Wenger said about players being willing to let their contracts expire and move on a free.