Arsenal’s hopes of a big-money Hector Bellerin sale may have just been dashed

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Arsenal may have received a blow in their bid to sell Hector Bellerin, with Paris Saint-Germain now reportedly set to sign Alessandro Florenzi.

Gianluca Di Marzio is reporting the French champions have turned their attention to the Italian right-back, who is surplus to requirements at AS Roma.

An agreement has supposedly been reached between the two clubs, with PSG apparently securing a loan deal with option-to-buy.

Florenzi is due to travel to Paris tonight to finalise everything, with an official announcement expected soon.

The development comes hot on the heels of reports that PSG were interested in signing Bellerin from Arsenal.

According to The Independent, Arsenal were reluctantly willing to cash in on the Spaniard (in order to raise funds for their pursuit of Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey), with a £35 million fee mooted.

TBR’s View – A blow for Arsenal?

Bellerin is the player likely to command the biggest fee for the Gunners, and to see moneybags PSG drop out of the race is not great news.

It is unlikely that Sevilla and Bayer Leverkusen, two other teams to have been linked with Bellerin, will have the same financial power as PSG.

Arteta may have been banking on the 2020 Champions League finalists to take Bellerin off his hands – there may now be a struggle to find a team willing to fork out as much as £35 million.