Former Arsenal player Mikael Silvestre has advised Gunners striker Folarin Balogun to consider leaving the Emirates and to join AS Monaco.
AS Monaco, along with Inter Milan, has expressed interest in the young player as Arsenal has made him available for a potential transfer during this window.
Despite Balogun’s strong performances over the past year, particularly during his loan spell with Reims in France, he hasn’t been able to fully establish himself at Arsenal.
Balogun has asserted his preference not to leave the club on loan again, placing Arsenal in the position of either selling him or integrating him into the first team.
Given these circumstances, Arsenal is open to selling Balogun and has set an asking price of around 50 million euros for their academy product.
While Inter Milan and AS Monaco continue to vie for his signature, Mikael Silvestre believes that returning to France, specifically AS Monaco, could be a favourable move.
The ex-defender said, as quoted by Football London:
“I’m not in his shoes, but I would go back to Ligue 1 and choose Monaco.
“They need a striker and one like him. He would fit in well there, and he knows Ligue 1.
“It would make sense to go and establish himself at Monaco and continue the good run he had with the 20-odd goals he scored.
“He should continue his progression with a side that is trying to build a competitive side that can go back to competing for the Champions League places.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Balogun is a player we need to offload soon so that he can get as much game time as he wants at another club.
We do not have the space for him to play often, so there is no need to keep him when we can make money when he leaves.
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What are you saying, he is advising Balogun to breach his two year remaining contract? Arsenal “DO NOT WANT TO SELL HIM”. //Why do you journalist think he is for sale. For starters, his value is not €50 million, it is in fact £60 million. //The reason why so many clubs are interested in him is because of that stupid low price of €50 million that you journalist think Arteta wants to sell him for.// Arteta does not want to sell him, and has slapped a starting price of £60 million on him . This is to scare off potential time wasters putting in ridiculous low offers, thinking he is a cheap buy at €50 million. //There is no young( 20 goal a season ) TargetMan available in Europe for less than £60 million, not anywhere.
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If he’s not for sale then why did he not really feature in pre season and why wasn’t he anywhere near the starting line up in our first game of the season? Do you expect him to play for us or just have a £60 million (your valuation) player on the bench?
he would cost us 80 90 mill