Arsenal works on an agreement to sign Piero Hincie from Bayer Leverkusen – if they manage to move the players before the closing of the summer transfer window.
Hincapie is under contract in Leverkusen until June 2029, but wants to leave and informed the Bundesliga Club of his wish.
They would prefer to keep the 23 -year -old unless a liberation clause of 60 million euros in his terms is activated, although efforts are made to reduce these costs to a more realistic market value.
Hincie’s preference is to join Arsenal and the Premier League team is ready to push for him, if the departures materialize. The defender appeared in tears on the field after the 2-1 defeat of this team against Hoffenheim on Saturday.
Jakub Kiwior is continued by FC Porto – with Oleksandr Zinchenko, Fabio Vieira and Reiss Nelson among the other members of the team who could go there.
Hincapie normally operates as a left central defender, but can also be deployed on the left rear – and the defender of the equator has appeared prominently on the Arsenal recruitment lists for a while.
He joined Leverkusen of the Argentine CA Talleres team in the summer of 2021 and won as one of the most promising defenders in Europe.
During his four seasons in Germany, Hincie played 166 appearances for Leverkusen in addition to making 46 appearances for the national team of the equator.
The defender appeared in the first two Leverkusen games of the 2025/26 season.
Leverkusen has already seen several members of the team who brought them their recent success this summer. Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Amine Adli, Granit Xhaka and Jonathan Tah all left the club, as is the former head coach Xabi Alonso.
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Hincapie developed in Pace in Leverkusen, having impressed at the Copa America 2021.
In fact, Hincie was so important for the equator during this tournament that he made of Simon Rolfes, managing director of B04, accelerating his plans to sign him, knowing that he would quickly become out of reach for all, except for the biggest clubs in Europe.
A defender on the technical and aggressive and aggressive left, who can play outside a back-to-three, or even as a wing team, Hincie was one of the angular stones of the 2023-24 team which was undefeated in the Bundesliga in 2023-24, also winning the DFB-Pokal and reaching the final of the Europa League.
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