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This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement.<\/em><\/p>\n Arsenal observers were reportedly in attendance as Ajax winger Mika Godts scored an outstanding individual goal during a 2-0 win over NAC Breda on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Belgian international had already provided the assist for Oscar Gloukh\u2019s opener prior to bagging one himself. He ran past several NAC defenders and rounded goalkeeper Daniel Bielica before putting the ball into the back of the net.<\/p>\n Godts has been described as the \u201cnew Eden Hazard\u201d by some in the media, and TEAMtalk<\/em> claim the Gunners consider him a \u201cserious candidate\u201d to strengthen the left flank this summer.<\/p>\n The 20-year-old has been in excellent form for Ajax this season, scoring 16 goals and providing 11 assists in 39 appearances.<\/p>\n It is believed that Chelsea sent a representative to watch the forward in action at the weekend as well, along with Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Leeds.<\/p>\n Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and RB Leipzig have been keeping tabs on Godts\u2019 progress too.<\/p>\n It means Arsenal will have a battle on their hands if they do see the Belgian as one of their main targets ahead of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n Get an Arsenal home shirt from Fanatics here<\/p>\n The Brazilian has struggled for consistency over the past few years, and it appears the Gunners have lost patience with him.<\/p>\n From the looks of things, Mikel Arteta\u2019s side are now actively looking for Martinelli\u2019s replacement, with Godts one of those under consideration. It remains to be seen, though, whether he ends up being the no.1 option.<\/p>\n Read more about the Arsenal First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Other Premier League teams had scouts watching Godts<\/h2>\n
Arsenal are looking to replace Martinelli<\/h2>\n
A reliable journalist, the BBC<\/em>\u2018s Sami Mokbel, has named Gabriel Martinelli among the first-team players who are expected to leave<\/strong> the Emirates at the end of the season.<\/p>\n