Should Arsenal Take Up The ‘Yannick Carrasco Offer’?

Former Atletico Madrid winger, Yannick Carrasco has reportedly been offered to Arsenal with a potential return to Europe possible this month.

Carrasco has spent the last year playing his football in the Chinese Super League with Dalian Yifang and is apparently in talks with the north London club, according to Sky Sports.

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The cost for the Belgian winger is believed to be £25m, but it is understood he could demand a wage in the region of £170,000 per week.

Carrasco joined Dalian Yifang from Atletico Madrid for £26.5m last February after three years in the Spanish capital.

The winger helped Belgium to third place in the 2018 World Cup. However, he primarily played as a wing-back.

Arsenal currently have a shortage of wingers at the club. Central players like Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aibameyang and Ainsley Maitland-Niles have covered there.

Arsenal have also been heavily linked to Barcelona’s Denis Suarez, a central midfielder who is also capable out wide.

In China, it is believed that Carrasco currently earns around £9,000,000 per year (£173,ooo per week) but he is open to taking a pay cut to join Arsenal. At 25-years-old, Carrasco has time on his side and this move looks as if it could be coming at the right time for him.

This season, Unai Emery hasn’t been blessed with a plethora of wingers at Arsenal. Often times it is unknown whether he will go into matches with a system favouring either wingers or wing backs.

When using wingers, however, Arsenal often play Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alex Iwobi or Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the wide areas. Although Aubameyang possesses great pace, the other two aren’t natural wingers. What’s more, Mkhitaryan is currently out injured.

With all of that in mind, Emery could be tempted to bring Carassco to the club. However, Arsenal do have a limited transfer budget as reported by Belgian journalist, Kristof Terreur, who added context to the news.

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