Arsenal are set to sign New England Revolution and United States goalkeeper Matt Turner after agreeing a deal to convey the 27-year-antique to north London inside the summer.
The arrangement will see Turner start the 2022 MLS season with New England, earlier than making the switch throughout the Atlantic in time for the 2022/23 Premier League marketing campaign.
Turner is presently on international responsibility with the USA for World Cup qualifiers and countrywide crew train Gregg Berhalter showed the Arsenal switch goes ahead.
“He's headed to Arsenal. It's simply an high-quality tale and it's down to him, his paintings ethic, his belief in himself and his never give up mind-set,” Berhalter said.
The Athletic rates a beginning price of just underneath $7m (£five.2m), with New England to preserve a sell-on percent of a future switch as part of the deal.
The arrival of Turner beforehand of subsequent season can also prompt Arsenal to allow Bernd Leno depart the membership. The German worldwide has misplaced his starting region to Aaron Ramsdale in latest months and understandably hasn’t been satisfied together with his new role as a lower back-up.
As a recent visitor on 90min’s Football Americana podcast, Turner revealed that he appears as much as Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson in terms of his playing style and technical capacity.
“I need what Ederson has," Turner explained.
"It's no longer just what he can do technically, it's the confidence he has when he does it. It's that, excuse my language, ‘F you’ attitude he has as a goalkeeper. I assume the way that he hurts teams, the way he advances the ball, and teams don't even press him anymore.”
“That's where I need to go,” he introduced. “I want to get to a point where a crew knows that if they're strolling via whilst the ball's coming to my feet, they're simply wasting their electricity. That's the way humans view Ederson, for my part. That's what I need.”
