Liverpool and Arsenal are locked in a £10m battle for French
sensation Samir Nasri.
The Marseille midfielder, France's Player of the Year last season,
has been hailed as the new Zidane'.
Liverpool have a good relationship with Marseille, having sold them
Djibril Cisse for a cut-price £6m in the summer, and have asked to
be the first informed when the La Ligue club decide to cash
in.
But Arsene Wenger has a £70m transfer fund to hand and could gazump
Rafa Benitez.
Nasri, 20, who has a handful of French caps, might also be swayed
by the strong contingent of French youngsters now at the
Emirates.
The player has had a virus in the last couple of weeks. But as long
as the illness poses no long-term problem, Wenger and Benitez will
move in the transfer window.
Liverpool have raided Real Madrid to sign 16-year-old Argentine
midfield prodigy Gerardo Bruna.
