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PSG is Arsenal’s New Borussia Dortmund in the Transfer Market
By Josh Sippie
Arsenal have a history of being linked to everyone under the sun. Which makes it really funny because rarely do they ever make a signing, especially one as high profile as their links suggest. If a player is available, chances are they are linked to Arsenal for a fee that Wenger would never even imagine paying.
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Over the past couple of years, one team has dominated Arsenal’s transfer radar – Borussia Dortmund. Arsenal have been linked to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marco Reus, Kevin Grosskreutz, Mats Hummels, Ilkay Gundogan and more in the two clubs’ recent non-transfer history. The two clubs are very similar on and off the pitch, that much is certain. That is where most of the transfer speculation stems from.
On the pitch, Dortmund play the same steady, controlled build up as Arsenal do. They produce beautiful team goals. Off the pitch, the team is built on loyalty and sly pickups. Even in the depth of their despair last year, Dortmund managed to hold on to all of their major stars. That is dedication and that is the kind of family-like structure that Arsenal runs on.
However, with nearly every Dortmund player extending his stay with the German side, Arsenal have needed a new best friend to constantly be linked to yet never acquire anything from.
Arsenal has found that buddy in PSG.
The French powerhouse possess Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Adrian Rabiot, Thiago Motta and Javier Pastore, all of whom have been linked to Arsenal at some point since the Gunners broke off the dead end relationship (even though it was all the media) with Dortmund. To make matters even more interesting, PSG have signed Serge Aurier and Layvin Kurzawa, both former targets of the Gunners. Aurier was on the brink of coming to London, in fact.
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One of the main things we know about these heavily-linked squads is that moves rarely ever go through. In Arsenal’s extensive history, their last transfer to go through with Borussia Dortmund is Tomas Rosicky. You would have to search even deeper to find Arsenal and PSG’s last big time deal.
England does not provide the prestige that it once did for potential incoming transfers. Arsenal have had numerous targets opt for other locales on the continent instead of crossing the Channel to London. Most of this linkage comes from media build up anyway.
Expect the PSG linkage to go the same way that the Dormund linkage has – nowhere. PSG is at the top of their game. They are the best team in a Ligue 1 that is growing in prestige while the Premier League goes the other way.
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