Premier League – Mercato – Big blow from Arsenal who offers Jorginho, 3rd for the 2021 Ballon d’Or

It’s a nice shot. One more this season for Arsenal. With Mohamed Elneny’s injury, Mikel Arteta wanted a player to strengthen his midfield this winter. And if the Gunners have tried to lure young Moises Caicedo – who is seducing the entire Premier League with Brighton – into their nets, the Premier League leader is recovering an element of experience in the person of Jorginho, the Italian from Chelsea who is transferred for an estimated sum of 12-13 million euros.

Arteta wanted it for a long time

While Brighton have been firm on the Caicedo case and rebuffed all approaches from the Gunners, Mikel Arteta can be smiling. With Jorginho, whom he had already tried to recruit in the summer of 2020, he inherited a player he had liked for many years. “His presence was a big influence because I know he tried many times to get me before.“, admitted the medium on the club’s website.

Above all, Arteta offers himself a player who finished third in the Ballon d’Or 2021 when he had been at the heart of Chelsea’s coronations in the Champions League then Italy at Euro 2020. His game intelligence, his ability to making the right choices or his vision of the game should do Arsenal a good service.

Six months from the end of his contract and at 31, the transalpine European champion, who risked seeing his status at Chelsea evolve in the coming weeks with all the arrivals this winter, offers himself a new challenge. At Arsenal, where he signed for a year and a half with an optional year, he is not going to change cities. But he will fight for the Premier League title, a trophy he still misses.