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Fofana has scored 19 goals in 83 appearances for the French side, including netting twice in five appearances this term. ARNAUD FINISTRE \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Aug. 31, 2026 Updated 3:35 pm EDT<\/p>\n
The Athletic has live coverage of Aston Villa vs Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arsenal are weighing up a move to sign Lyon winger Malick Fofana ahead of Tuesday\u2019s transfer deadline.<\/p>\n Fofana, who has been on Arsenal\u2019s radar and has spoken to Mikel Arteta, presents a possible market opportunity after Lyon missed out on qualification for the league phase of this season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old has scored 19 goals in 83 appearances for the French side, including netting twice in five appearances this term \u2014 against Fenerbahce in Lyon\u2019s Champions League playoff loss, and in a Ligue 1 victory over Toulouse.<\/p>\n Arsenal\u2019s interest in Fofana comes with Gabriel Martinelli set to join Al Hilal<\/a> in a \u20ac70million (\u00a360m) agreement and\u00a0Gabriel Jesus closing in on a move to Barcelona<\/a>, with advanced talks over a \u20ac10m (\u00a38.5m; $11.6m) deal.<\/p>\n The north London club have already signed one left-sided attacker this summer in Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge, following Leandro Trossard\u2019s departure to Besiktas.<\/p>\n Arsenal explored an ambitious move for Vinicius Junior before the Brazil star opted instead to remain at Real Madrid by signing a new long-term contract in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n Tzolis started the Premier League-opening win over Coventry City a week ago after an impressive pre-season with Fofana now emerging as a further option under consideration ahead of Tuesday\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n Last summer, Chelsea made a verbal enquiry for Belgium international Fofana and Everton held talks over a possible move.<\/p>\n Fofana joined Lyon from Belgian side Gent in January 2024 under a contract that lasts until June 2028.<\/p>\n The winger emerged through Gent\u2019s academy in his native Belgium, making his senior debut in July 2022. He went on to play 64 games for the club, scoring five goals and providing 10 assists, before joining Lyon for \u20ac17million.<\/p>\n Fofana has scored one goal in five appearances for Belgium, but was not part of his nation\u2019s squad for this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n Aug 31, 2026<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n Spot the pattern. Connect the terms<\/p>\n Find the hidden link between sports terms<\/p>\n Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fofana has scored 19 goals in 83 appearances for the French side, including netting twice in five appearances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,15106,10535,9524,352435,1084,403,99],"class_list":["post-832311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-belgium","tag-champions-league","tag-ligue-1","tag-olympique-lyonnais","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n