Martin Odegaard will play for Arsenal next season.

As this newspaper has been able to confirm, Real Madrid and the London club accelerate this Wednesday the last fringes of a sale that will close for a figure close to 40 million euros and that could become official in the next few hours.

The idea of ​​the 'gunners' is that Odegaard, who has not trained with the rest of the Madrid squad in Valdebebas for several days, makes his debut in the 2021-2022 Premier this weekend against Chelsea in the London derby.

The Norwegian's situation was complicated during the first leg of last season, when after starting with Zinedine Zidane, an injury and the team's bad streak separated him from the starting lineups. The Nordic, whom Madrid had recovered from Real Sociedad ahead of time, had no patience and asked to go out in the winter market. Arsenal appeared, where Mikel Arteta handed him the playmaker and made him the axis of the attack.

This summer, already with Ancelotti, the idea of ​​the club's board and the Italian coach was to recover the best version of Odegaard, the one that had given him the revelation poster of the League with the Real.

But that plan has not come to fruition either.

"We have eight midfielders," Ancelotti summed up at a press conference a few days ago.

Casemiro, Kroos, Modric, Valverde, Ceballos, Isco, Blanco ... Even Asensio.

Odegaard does not look indisputable, as he has been promised in the lights of London, and Madrid, at that point, does not see with bad eyes the sale of a footballer who, according to the club, has not wanted to fight like others for a position .

The example of Fede Valverde, whose renewal is under way, is the one that gives Madrid the most pride.

The Norwegian arrived at Valdebebas at the age of 16 after having tried with the great clubs of the old continent.

Madrid paid 2.5 million to Stromsgodset and now sells it for almost 40. At an economic level, an ideal operation.

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