Valencia centre-back Cristhian Mosquera has agreed personal terms with Arsenal, with a move to the Premier League club getting closer. Softfootball has been informed that medicals are set for Wednesday, July 16th 2025.
The Gunners have been looking to add a young defender to their squad to compete with William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes.
The move for Mosquera should give Mikel Arteta formidable strength in depth at centre-back and the Gunners can also call upon Jakub Kiwior, and while Riccardo Calafiori, Jurrien Timber and Ben White have mainly featured at full-back, all three had plenty of experience in central defence before joining.
BBC reported that Arsenal were in talks to sign the 21-year-old but now another element to the deal has been completed. Mosquera can play at both centre-back and right-back and will definitely fill the gap left by the departure of Takehiro Tomiyasu, who mutually agreed to terminate his contract with the Gunners.
The Spain Under-21 international has made 90 appearances for Valencia and was a regular last season, playing the full match in 37 of the club’s 38 La Liga games.
Arsenal have been busy during this transfer window and have signed Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, Christian Norgaard from Brentford and Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea and Mosquera will become Arsenal 4th signing of the summer with Noni Madueke and Vitor Gyokeres still lined up to join.
Softftootball also reported earlier that the Gunners are also close to completing a deal with Sporting for striker Viktor Gyokeres and are hoping to complete a deal inside the next 24 hours for 73.5m euros (£63.5m).
The 27-year-old has been a long term target for the Gunners as they look to fix the striking position after ending last season without a recognisable target man which forced Arteta to play Spanish midfielder Mikel Merino in that position.
According to football transfer expert, David Ornstein, his sources in Lisbon have confirmed that the Portuguese club have reached an agreement with the Gunners for Gyokeres. The deal is worth €63.5m guaranteed fee plus €10m add-ons.
