Man United and Arsenal ‘offered’ £70m Striker In Stunning January Loan Deal, With Transfer Greenlight

Man United and Arsenal ‘offered’ £70m Striker In Stunning January Loan Deal, With Transfer Greenlight

France striker Randal Kolo Muani, Arsenal and Man Utd badges
Randal Kolo Muani could be heading to the Premier League in January

According to a rumor, a number of Premier League teams, including Arsenal and Manchester United, have been offered the chance to capture PSG forward Randal Kolo Muani in an alluring January transfer.

In the summer of 2023, PSG acquired Kolo Muani from Eintracht Frankfurt for an estimated £70 million (add-ons included).

Although the 25-year-old is still an important member of Didier Deschamps’ France team, he is not as well-liked at PSG’s club level.

A new report from TBR Football claims that Luis Enrique, the manager of PSG, has “made it clear” that Kolo Muani is free to depart.

PSG hope to recoup as much of the roughly £70m they paid, though accept they’ll struggle to do so given Kolo Muani has underwhelmed since arriving in Paris.

As such, the report states PSG are open to loaning Kolo Muani out in January in a move that could contain an option/obligation to buy.

A loan would also serve to put Kolo Muani in the shop window and if he excels, PSG’s chances of extracting maximum value through a sale would increase.

It’s stated a move to the Premier League appears to be the likeliest outcome if the striker does depart in the winter window.

While club-to-club contacts with PSG haven’t been made, it’s claimed Kolo Muani’s intermediaries have already sounded out and offered their client to Arsenal, Man Utd, Manchester City, Chelsea, Aston Villa and Newcastle.

Kolo Muani worth taking a chance on?
Kolo Muani has returned figures of 11 goals and six assists in 49 matches so far for PSG. Those figures are well below what you’d expect a striker to return at the dominant club in their country.

Nonetheless, Kolo Muani proved his worth in Germany with Frankfurt when scoring a goal every other game in the 2022/23 campaign. His 23 goals in 46 matches also earned him a place in the Bundesliga team of the season.

The Frenchman has featured in seven Ligue 1 matches for PSG this term, though TBR Football suggests this is only due to Goncalo Ramos missing out through an ankle injury.

Kolo Muani is blessed with electric pace and is more than a handful for defenders on his day. The claims PSG are open to an initial loan spell would also appear to make a January move a relatively risk-free affair.

Whether that’s enough to tempt any of the Premier League sides into making a move, only time will tell.

Ten Hag didn’t want Man Utd transfer / Arsenal conspiracy theory rubbished
In other news, Erik ten Hag has declared he was against Man Utd selling Scott McTominay to Napoli over the summer.

“I’m very happy for Scott,” said the Dutchman. “As I said, when he left, I didn’t want this but that’s the rules the club had to deal with. The [PSR] rules are, I would even say, bad, but that’s the situation created. It forced us to make this decision.”

Elsewhere, Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp has rubbished a growing conspiracy theory surrounding the sending off of William Saliba in Arsenal’s shock 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth.

Finally, ESPN have claimed Bruno Fernandes was all set to leave Man Utd over the summer before the club panicked into offering him a bumper new contract