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Steven Chicken

Was Arsene Wenger right all along? A transfer revolution is sweeping football... but the FIFA chief didn't quite get it right

Arsene Wenger.

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.

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