Andrei Arshavin will sign for Arsenal this month — despite Zenit St Petersburg turning down an initial £10million bid.
A Zenit insider revealed: “Negotiations between the clubs about Arshavin are continuing.
“Since both sides want them to be successful, we should expect a good outcome soon — and certainly before the end of the transfer window.”
Club spokesman Alexei Petrov revealed: “I can confirm that Zenit did get an official offer of about £10m from Arsenal for Andrei Arshavin.
“It was rejected as insufficient. No new offers have arrived from them since.
“At the moment, only Arsenal have officially appr-oached us about the player.”
The bid is far below Zenit’s asking price of around £23m set last summer.
But Arshavin is allegedly ‘desperate’ to play for the Gunners and has even been taking a crash course in English.
[Credit: TheSun]
