ARSENAL have been looking at signing a new goalkeepers as they prepare to sign cover for David Raya next summer, according to The Mirror.
Arsenal were looking to add a new goalkeeper to the side over the summer window as Aaron Ramsdale departed the club and Reports emanating from Spain indicated that Arsenal were very keen on signing the impressive Joan Garcia.
Reports had even emerged that the Gunners had agreed personal terms with Garcia’s camp over a proposed £25million move to the Emirates, but talks between the two clubs collapsed at the final hurdle, with the Gunners failing to satisfy Espanyol’s hefty financial demands for the 23-year-old ‘keeper.
Arsenal eventually abandoned their pursuit of Garcia and instead wrapped up a season-long loan agreement for Bournemouth shot-stopper Neto, but there is still interest from the Gunners in adding Garcia to the side at the end of the current campaign.
Garcia has gone on to start all but one of Espanyol’s games in La Liga this season and the Spaniard recently insisted he has no lingering disappointment about Arsenal’s failed proposal:‘I tried to isolate myself from everything that was being said,’ Garcia told Spanish publication Marca.
‘I had been given the opportunity to do something I had been fighting for for a long time, which was to be Espanyol’s starting goalkeeper.
‘I couldn’t waste this opportunity.’
‘It is something that I think should not be talked about so much. ‘I try not to let it affect me and try to be isolated, although it is complicated.
‘I think I am handling it quite well, I cannot control it. It is not affecting me. Whatever will be, will be.’
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It is probably a good thing that Garcia did not make the move to ARSENAL in the summer as he would be on the bench alot more than he is now at the Spaniards, he would only get cup competition appearances.
If he ever makes the move to Arsenal, he will have to get used to sitting on the bench because David Raya is the number one
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