Boca Juniors President Responds To Reports Linking Cristian Pavon To Arsenal

Boca Juniors President Responds To Reports Linking Cristian Pavon To Arsenal

Boca Juniors president Daniel Angelici has poured cold water on reports linking striker Cristian Pavon with a move to Arsenal.

Arsenal’s interest in the Argentinean forward was revealed earlier this week, with Cristian Pavon eyed as a long-term replacement for Alexis Sanchez because of their similar playing styles.



“For the moment, we haven’t received any proposal, formally or informally,” he said. “For now, they are all rumours, comments in the corridors.



“But I know very well what I spoke to Cristian about when we renewed his contract. I am not going to stunt his career, but we gave him a nice contract for him to be comfortable.



“We put a clause in the contract, in the event that a club might appear. It’s the player who has the last word. I see that he’s in a good place, very focused on approaching 2018 with Boca Juniors.”



Pavon’s agent, Fernando Hidalgo, has revealed he was contacted over Arsenal’s interest in the forward.



He told ¿Cómo te va?: ‘I don’t know where the news originally came from, but I received a call two days ago from an English agent to see if there was a possibility of the player moving as Arsenal are looking at him.



‘If Arsenal are interested they should contact Boca and try send over an offer if they are truly interested in him.



‘Nobody has called me officially from Arsenal and I haven’t had any chats in regard to this matter. If it’s true what this person was telling me then they should contact the club is what I said.



‘So far I haven’t had any news from the club on this matter.



‘Surely they would have called or something, then I would have known about it by now.’



Arsenal continue to explore their options with regards to a replacement for Alexis Sanchez, with Bordeaux attacker Malcom now being considered.