DOUBLE DONE DEALS COMPLETED✅✅: Arsenal Secure £55M In Transfer Fees After Fabrizio Romano Confirmed Two Players Have Left The Club After Successful Medicals

Albert Sambi Lokonga arriving in Spain ahead of his move to Sevilla (Photo via Gonzalo Tortosa on Twitter)

On Thursday night, Spanish journalist Maximo de la Cruz Ramirez Ramirez broke the news that Sevilla had reached an agreement with Arsenal for the transfer of Albert Sambi Lokonga.

In the end, the two clubs agreed on a loan with an option to buy, set at €12m (£10.2m), and Sevilla will also pay Lokonga’s entire €3m wages this season.

Fabrizio Romano confirmed that the deal was in place, and that the medical was already booked.

David Ornstein reports for The Athletic that if Sevilla activate their purchase option at the end of the season, Arsenal would then be due 25% of any future sale of the player.

Fiorentina were reportedly willing to make a better offer for the midfielder, but Lokonga was already set on Sevilla.

Arsenal already received a fee of £500,000 for Lokonga’s loan to Luton Town last season and may also have received a fee for his loan to Crystal Palace. They originally signed Lokonga for £15m.

Lokonga playing 19 times for Luton Town last season amid a couple of injury setbacks.

Despite those spells out through injury, Lokonga was back in the team by the end of the campaign, making five consecutive starts in the final month and putting in some strong performances.

It’s now seemingly just a matter of time until his move to Sevilla is officially confirmed.

Lazio are reportedly closing in on a deal to sign Arsenal full-back Nuno Tavares.

According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, the Gunners have reached a verbal agreement with the Italian club for a deal worth £7.5 million (€9 million).

Set to draw a line under his three years with the club, Tavares, 24, who has featured in less than 30 in all competitions, will be glad of the new challenge having been less than a fringe player since joining from Benfica.

Enduring back-to-back loans with Marseille and Nottingham Forest, the 24-year-old has failed to convince Mikel Arteta he has a part to play in the Gunners’ first-team.

Nuno Tavares in action for Arsenal.

Consequently, with the full-back now entering into the final 12 months of his contract, Arsenal have been forced to offload him to avoid losing him for free next summer.

And agreeing to a deal just shy of £8 million, Arteta will be delighted with the club’s business with the player likely to embrace the challenge of playing in a new country and league.