After garnering interest from Arsenal a week ago, Bayern Munich's Luiz Gustavo seems to have welcomed the idea of potentially joining the club and is apparently hopeful that the £14m bid offered by the Gunners gets accepted, according to The Guardian.
"My contract with Bayern runs until 2015 but it is very important that I play first-team football to keep getting called up for Brazil. I am in a very delicate situation at Bayern and this needs sorting out. I have personal and professional reasons to move" he said on arrival in Basel for Brazil's friendly against Switzerland. "I have heard about the Arsenal interest. It's a big club we're talking about here so of course I'd like to play for them."
Gustavo has also reportedly been targeted by the 2009 Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg while Napoli are also interested but it is a move to the Emirates that really catches his eye.
"Arsenal play a very attractive brand of football and are in the Champions League. They also have a very clever manager in Arsène Wenger. Even when Bayern beat them in the last Champions League [on aggregate] you could see they are not pushovers."
This comes in the midst of rumors that Luis Suarez, Arsenal's No.1 target this transfer season, will remain at Liverpool.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has insisted that the club hasn't given up on the prospect of signing Suarez.
Wenger said: "There is nothing concrete - at the moment.
"We want to play 55 games this season and I think we are a little bit thin squad-wise.
"I also haven't given up hope on Suarez. If I read what people are saying about him, then maybe I would give up. But we will do it the right way.
"I am an optimist. That's why I do this job. We have kept the squad together for the first time in many years so I am happy."
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