Arsenal plotting for life without Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil with £50million double swoop for Yacine Brahimi and Max Meyer
The Gunners want the Porto forward and Schalke playmaker if their two top stars leave the Emirates in the summer
ARSENAL are getting ready for life without contract rebels Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil by preparing a £50million double swoop for Porto forward Yacine Brahimi and Schalke playmaker Max Meyer.
The Gunners are set to compete with AC Milan and Inter Milan in a £35m deal for Algerian international Brahimi, while they have also moved to grab German youngster Meyer to keep him out of the clutches of Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.
Arsenal have asked Brahimi’s Portuguese club about a summer switch in the clearest indication yet that Sanchez could leave the Emirates.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger admitted Arsenal are reluctant to pay their Chilean top scorer £300,000-a-week as it would destabilise the dressing room.
But Sanchez, 28, also has just one year left on his Arsenal deal and his market value is decreasing.
Brahimi, 27, has been compared to Sanchez by Arsenal scouts for his ability to play wide and through the middle.
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The Paris-born wide man played for France Under-21 before switching countries four years ago.
Since then he has moved from Granada in Spain to Porto and has been tipped to make the move over to England like Sanchez did in 2014 from Barcelona.
Meyer - rated as thee German Dele Alli, has starred for club and country this season and was watched by top Arsenal spy Francis Cagigao last week.
The 21-year-old has rejected a new deal from Schalke, who quoted Tottenham £45m for him nine months ago - but would now get just over a quarter of that figure.
Arsenal hope that, having signed left-back Sead Kalasnic on a free from the Bundesliga club, they can now do the double by capturing Meyer as well.