Fabrizio Romano has respond to recent claims that Manchester City no longer want to sell players to Arsenal after witnessing their success this season.
The Londoners bought Gabriel Jesus in a £45million deal and Oleksandr Zinchenko later joined for £30million plus £2million of add-ons from the Premier League champions during the summer window.
The Gunners now lead City by five points atop the Premier League after playing 14 times each – but both sides are yet to meet this term after their October meeting was postponed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Questions have been asked at City about why they allowed two first-teamers to join a rival who are now their biggest competition to win the title.
That’s what had been suggested by Football Insider, who added that City would probably not sell to Arsenal again after seeing how these deals had worked out.
Fabrizio Romano responding to the recent claims says he’s not aware of an internal decision over this just yet, but he also defended City as they needed to raise funds for their summer signings, while the players in question didn’t want to go anywhere else.
“I’m told nothing has been decided internally on this; but of course, after Gabriel and Zinchenko performances, it’s quite normal that they don’t want to keep selling players to the same club,” Romano explained in an exclusive Daily Briefing for CaughtOffside.
“On the other hand, I think it was no mistake to sell them to Arsenal as they needed fresh money to invest on Haaland, Phillips, Akanji and Zinchenko/Gabriel only wanted to join Arsenal, so they had no other option.”
A number of fans took to Twitter, sharing their thoughts on the update.
“Great business”
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“But Arsenal fans and fan pages will use footyinsider as a credible source to say City regret selling to Arsenal 😂”
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“They were both definitely replaceable, but selling to Arsenal was a bit dodgy thinking”
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“Arteta is a friend to the club to be honest which is no doubt a reason they sanctioned it”
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“Selling two players to the same club was dodgy. They could’ve sold Zinchenko to someone else.”
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