A month ago, the Daily Mail reported OM’s sustained interest in a certain Folarin Balogun, the Reims striker on loan for the season from Arsenal. Then, the rumor has gained momentum, Since then it is a CBS journalist, Ben Jacobs, who is now relaying the information, citing Marseille among the potential suitors for the 21-year-old English U23 international.

 » Arsenal decide what’s next for Balogun this summer. Reims says that it is not necessary for the recruiter to define it and see that it is pessimistic to quantify the possibility of a new product. Leeds, Milan, Marseille and Borussia Mönchengladbach have already configured their interest. But Arsenal are very impressed with his form and potential “, writes our British colleague on Twitter.

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With an attached Jesus, Saka, Martinelli and Nketiah, not to mention Trossard and Nelson, the Gunners have no reason to repatriate the New York native from the offseason. Also a new loan in a club playing Europe can it appear as an interesting option for the London club and its young attacking talent, today valued at around 15 million euros.

Author of 16 goals in 26 league games with the Stade de Reims – as many as Wissam Ben Yedder and Alexandre Lacazette, 3 lengths behind the leading tandem Kylian Mbappé-Jonathan David – Folarin Balogun has everything from a godsend for the Olympians who come to invest more than 30 million euros in the young Portuguese striker Vitinha. Remember that Pablo Longoria maintains excellent relations with Arsenal.