Something doesn’t add up: Arsenal tipped as favourites to sign Chelsea & Man Utd target for just £40m

The report suggests Arsenal are in pole position to sign Scott, but it also mentions that the player is ‘worried about how much game time he will get for Mikel Arteta’s English champions’.

It may well be that Scott ends up choosing the Gunners anyway, but it seems strange to describe them as being so clearly in pole position when he has this rather significant doubt about joining.

Away from this report, there are also very strong signals that Arsenal’s top midfield target isn’t even Scott anyway, but Newcastle’s Bruno Guimaraes.

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The Times claim that club-to-club talks have started, so that seems to be Arsenal’s focus for their midfield right now.

Of course, it’s perfectly possible that AFC also keep the Scott deal alive in case Newcastle reject all offers for Guimaraes, but that still seems unlikely to mean they’re in pole position now to sign Scott, and certainly not for £40m.

It will be interesting to see what further updates emerge on this story, but for now it’s hard to make sense of the Mirror’s information being so out of sync with what everyone else seems to be reporting.