Valencia's center -back Christian Mosquera has reached an agreement to join Arsenal and will conduct medical examination this week. This is the information that the transfer expert Fabrizio Romano confirmed.
According to the previous information from the BBC Sport, Arsenal has started negotiating with the 21 -year -old, and now an important part of the deal has been completed. The transfer expert Fabrizio Romano confirmed that the two sides have reached an oral agreement and the official steps will be done later.
The transfer fee of this deal is 15 million euros plus surcharges, and the total contract value is less than 20 million euros. The long -term contract was signed in the context of Mosquera just wanted to come to Arsenal. He will conduct medical examination this weekend if everything goes on the plan.
Gunners are looking for a young center -back to increase the depth of defense and compete with the couple William Saliba – Gabriel Magalhaes. Mosquera, who can play both the center -back and the right defender, is considered an ideal alternative after the departure of Takehiro Tomiyasu, who has just terminated the contract with the club under the agreement.
Mosquera is the Spanish U21 player, has 90 appearances for Valencia, and is the pillar last season when playing 37/38 matches in La Liga.
Arsenal is having a vibrant summer transfer. They successfully recruited Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, Christian Norgaard from Brentford and Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea.
In addition to Mosquera, Arsenal is also very close to recruiting striker Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting Lisbon for 73.5 million euros (£ 63.5 million), and hope to be able to complete the deal within the next 24 hours. They also reached an agreement to recruit Noni Madueke from Chelsea and were only waiting for medical examination.