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Month: January 2018
English Premier League club, Arsenal have confirmed that they have made their first signing of the January transfer window Though it is not the kind of signing many Arsenal fans will jump up for, the Gunners are nonetheless happy to capture the new youngster. Arsenal on their official website wrote: “Young Greek defender Konstantinos Mavropanos has signed for us.
“The 20 year-old centre-back arrives from PAS Giannina, where he has made 16 Greek Super League appearances since breaking into the first team last season.
“We’d like to welcome Konstantinos to the club and wish him well for the future”
It is expected that there will be more arrivals at Arsenal during this transfer window.
Barkley is out of contract in the summer, but Chelsea are willing to pay £15m now in a bid to outmanoeuvre Tottenham, whose manager Mauricio Pochettino is a long-term admirer of the attacking midfielder.
Everton manager Sam Allardyce had hoped to convince Barkley to stay but he has now accepted the academy graduate will move on.
“We are resigned and the club was resigned before I got here that we’re going to lose Ross and I can’t see that changing,” said Allardyce.
“I expect there will be some interest some time in this window. He’s back in training full-time. When he comes back, the touch won’t be quite as good as it used to be and the match fitness won’t be quite as good as it used to be.”