Arsenal set for major cash boost as Monaco agree deal for striker | OneFootball

Arsenal are set to land a transfer windfall as the sell-on clause they included in the deal which took Mika Biereth to Sturm Graz last summer for £4 million is about to be activated.

The Danish striker has reached an agreement to join AS Monaco six months after leaving the Gunners in a permanent deal. His medical is slated for Friday, according to Italian transfer guru Fabrizio Romano.

The Ligue 1 club are parting with an initial £11m (€13m) for the former Arsenal player, and another £1.7m (€2m) could come in as add-ons when certain clauses are triggered.

Biereth joined the Gunners from Fulham in 2021 but did not get to make an official first-team appearance, spending 2022-23 on loan in the Eredivisie with RKC Waalwijk before moving to Motherwell for the first half of the following season.

He joined Sturm Graz on loan in January 2024 before sealing a permanent move at the end of the season, and Arsenal are set to benefit from his transfer to the French top flight this month.

The club could do with such a major cash boost right now, as manager Mikel Arteta wants to bolster his squad before the end of the January transfer window.

The Gunners are reportedly open to spending £100m on a player again as they eye a new striker, but they are unlikely to earn more than £4m from the sell-on clause the sale of Biereth to Monaco will fetch them.

Nevertheless, it is a cash injection that will come in handy for Arsenal, given that it is unknown whether they will be making any major sales during this window.

Arteta is reportedly open to letting Oleksandr Zinchenko leave before the end of the January transfer window as Inter Milan prepare a bid for him.

However, his exit is far from guaranteed, and he could still remain with the club until the end of the season.