Arsenal plot stunning James Maddison cash plus player transfer

Arsenal Could Offer Reiss Nelson and Maitland-Niles for James Maddison

There are a fair few players in the Arsenal squad who classify as ‘fringe’. Far too many. Sadly, that doesn’t mean Leicester are going to want Willian or Sead Kolasinac any time soon. Those the Gunners are willing to offer will come as little surprise.

Hale End duo Reiss Nelson and Ainsley Maitland-Niles are listed as players who could be included to sweeten the deal, both who could serve a purpose to Brendan Rodgers.

It’s stated that the Leicester boss is keen to bring in a wide forward this summer following the departure of Cengiz Ünder after his loan spell, and potentially due to Ayoze Perez not living up to his £30m price tag after joining two seasons ago.

Nelson, who has only one year left on his contract, is attracting plenty of interest across the Premier League and in Bundesliga, but is yet to be linked with a King Power Stadium move.

From Arsenal’s point of view it’s a inclusion in the deal that suits them. Whether it satisfies what Rodgers is after is another matter.

Still unproven in the top-flight, for a team in the Europa League next season is Nelson going to be the calibre of player to lift the overall quality within their excellent squad? He might not overly appeal to them.

Maitland-Niles is someone the Foxes have been looking at previously and they explored signing him back in January when a loan move became available to Premier League clubs. Now well known that the 23-year-old shunned the advances of more established clubs in favour of playing in midfield for Sam Allardyce’s West Brom, it’s likely that Rodgers saw him as full-back cover instead.

Due to the financial demands needed to sign Maddison, surely both would need including along with the aforementioned £50m if this was to have any appeal to the midlands outfit. Even then it may be a push.

However, Arsenal are confident there is room to negotiate here.

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