Arsenal will have no problems convincing players to come to the Emirates Stadium if they pull off an incredible Premier League and UEFA Champions League double this month.
The Gunners are two points clear of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table with just two games of the season to go and in the final of the Champions League, where they will face reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain.
It could be the dream scenario for Arsenal fans everywhere if they end their 22-year wait for the Premier League crown and claim the Champions League trophy for the first time in their history.
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Whether they win either, both or neither, work will be done in the summer transfer window to improve Mikel Arteta's squad, either to go one better than this year, or to ensure consistency is maintained ahead of another tilt at both titles next season.
And Arsenal might finally get the opportunity to complete a deal for legitimately one of the best players in world football in Kylian Mbappe - someone they came close to signing in 2016 and 2017.
Arsenal wanted to bring the prodigy to north London nine years ago in 2017, when he left Monaco, but instead chose to join fellow French side PSG.
Speaking in 2017, then Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said: "I believe that we were on the case last year. He was close to joining us, maybe closer last year than this year because the competition was a bit smaller than it is today."
Mbappe also revealed talks, saying after Wenger left the Gunners: “Wenger is a French football monument. A little while ago, before I signed for PSG, we were in contact in 2017. I chose a different direction but he wasn’t annoyed at me.
“He was a gentleman about it and wished me good luck.”
Now Mbappe's future is in major doubt at Real Madrid.
The Frenchman has become one of the biggest names in world football since signing for PSG and then moving on to the Santiago Bernabeu, but he has become a face of derision amongst the fanbase and spoke out about interim boss Alvaro Arbeloa this week.
He said: "I’m 100% fine. I haven’t played because for the coach I’ve been the fourth striker in the squad behind [Franco] Mastantuono, Vini and Gonzalo [Garcia]."
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Arbeloa refuted that claim but there are question marks over his future in the Spanish capital with many feeling he could be on the transfer list this summer. Real Madrid president Florentino Perez did little to douse the flames of talk of an Mbappe departure this week either.
He said: "Mbappe is a player who’s with Real Madrid right now. He’s won the Golden Boot, it’s not for lack of scoring goals. But there are areas that need improvement.”
That 'right now' comment will alert Arsenal, as well as every other big European club. The Gunners spent big on signing a centre-forward last summer, bringing Viktor Gyokeres to the club from Sporting CP. But that should not detract from any plans to try and convince Mbappe to finally make the move to the red half of north London.
Arsenal title challenge has been built on a solid defence and only Gyokeres has double figures for goals in the Premier League this season with 14, showing that further reinforcements up front would be welcome in the summer transfer window.
And who better than Mbappe to finally make the move he almost made ten years ago?
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