ONE Arsenal fan Twitter account has predicted that the Gunners can make £195million in sales this summer before reinvesting heavily in the side.
The account – ‘@LondonSources’ – is followed by almost 5,000 people, and they believe that the North London side can sign the likes of Dayot Upamecano, Wilfried Zaha and Luka Jovic.
Providing estimated figures on how much players will be sold for and how much they will be signed for, they even named their own starting XI, though it failed to include an attacking midfielder.
Starting with the players they would flog, the account claimed Arsenal could get £70million for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, £15m for Henrikh Mkhitaryan and £20m for Mesut Ozil.
They also stated that Granit Xhaka would fetch a fee of £35m, Mohamed Elneny could go for £10m and centre-back Shkodran Mustafi could be sold for £20m.
And they even suggested that Alexandre Lacazette could go to Atletico Madrid for £25m, with Thomas Lemar coming in the opposite direction as part of a swap.
With the £195m from departures, the account then went on to state that RB Leipzig defender Upamencano could be signed for £60m, with Zaha to cost £65m.
Lille midfielder Boubakary Soumare would then join for £45m to fill the void left by Xhaka, with Real Madrid duo Luka Jovic and Dani Ceballos signing for a combined fee of £70m.
In a starting XI that the account then predicted, they named Bernd Leno as the goalkeeper, with a back four of Hector Bellerin, Upamecano, William Saliba and Kieran Tierney.
Lucas Torreira and Soumare were the central midfielders, with an attacking quartet of Zaha, Lemar, Pepe and Jovic.
But the team failed to include a No 10, with Ceballos surely to play instead of Lemar behind Jovic should all those players be brought in to the club.
Unsurprisingly, the account was ridiculed by fellow fans on social media, as one tweeted: “My man tryna play career mode but he opened Twitter instead.”
Another quipped: “Dude , I wanna know what do you smoke ??”
A third commented: “Incredible insight, it’s like personally receiving a tweet from Raul Sanllehi has appeared on my timeline. Looking forward to all the incomings by June 1st…”
One simply stated: “Alright lad that’s enough career mode for today.”
