With Champions League qualification for next season looking even more bleak as the weeks go by, Arsenal’s plans for the summer transfer window may change accordingly.
The riches that come with playing in European football’s elite competition can often be a game-changer when it comes to being able to pay top-dollar for signings, and being able to lure the best players too.
If the Gunners miss out on Champions League football for a third successive year – they currently lie in tenth in the Premier League table – they may have to be far more shrewder in their work. And it is perhaps unsurprising then that according to The Telegraph, the north London side are among Said Benrahma’s admirers.
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The Brentford winger has impressed this season with eight goals and eight assists in 26 games in the Championship, and after hearing about their interest in him, Arsenal fans took to Twitter to voice their thoughts on their supposed transfer target.
A couple of fans of the north London side urged the club to make the move for the Algerian.
One supporter meanwhile labelled Benrahma as the next Riyad Mahrez – a player of course who was linked with a move to the Emirates when he was still playing for Leicester.
Whilst signing a 24-year-old from the league below doesn’t exactly suggest the Gunners are intent on having grand plans for their work in the transfer market this summer, Benrahma has performed admirably for Brentford this campaign.
As per Whoscored, he has averaged a very impressive 3.7 shots, 2.3 key passes and 3.2 dribbles per game, and has an average match rating of 7.40. To put that into context, that latter figure ranks him as the third-best player in the Championship this season, only being Eberechi Eze and Jed Wallace.
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The Gunners shouldn’t turn their noses up at someone simply because they came from the Championship. Benrahma could be the kind of astute, under-the-radar signing that the north London side look back upon with a sense of pride.
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