“For me, if you’re not going to get a striker and go all out offensively and just try blow teams away,” said Gibbs.
“Then you need to shore up the midfield and just try to shut up shop. They have kept one clean sheet in the last seven. That’s not the Arsenal we have seen over the last 18 months.
“It’s probably best to go and get someone like a Douglas Luiz.
On being told Arsenal don’t have money to get Luiz: “Yeah, you can swap players. There are deals to be done there for sure. There is Emile Smith Rowe. Eddie (Nketiah). There are other players. There are definitely deals to be done for something.”
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Aston Villa in a powerful position
The Midlands side have been here before with the Brazil international and back then he snubbed a move to the Emirates and signed a new deal.
Now, Villa are in a more powerful position because Luiz’s contract runs until 2026, plus they are above Arsenal in the Premier League table.
This isn’t a case of the seven-goal midfielder never being for sale, everyone has their price, as they proved with Jack Grealish’s move to Manchester City.
But it’s going to take serious money to prize Luiz away from a club looking to get into the Champions League.
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