AS Monaco have rejected a €50m approach from Premier League club Arsenal for winger Thomas Lemar as the Ligue 1 champions don’t want to sell him, according to L’Equipe, via Get French Football.
This is the third bid that the French club have rejected from the Gunners, who are desperate to sign the winger.
Lemar is Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s primary transfer target after securing Alexandre Lacazette earlier in the summer.
Monaco’s Vice-President made their stance on Lemar very clear.
Fabinho and Lemar are essential players, they will stay with us. We have kept all of the key players we intended to keep.
The 21-year-old winger has seen many of his team-mates from last season leave the club for big money moves to the Premier League and it was expected that he was next in line, but Monaco are adamant that they will not sell him this summer.
Gunners’ boss Wenger is looking to bolster his attack and with the future of Alex Oxlade Chamberlain in doubt, he wants Lemar as a replacement for the Englishman and maybe even for Chilean Alexis Sanchez, who could leave the Emirates this summer.
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