Arsenal truly do appear to have made an initial strategy for little recognized Japan striker Takuma Asano, with the participant himself admitting that he was once certainly surprised to hear of curiosity from the ultimate League significant.
Experiences of the Gunners' curiosity in the Sanfrecce Hiroshima ahead surfaced previous this week. But as a substitute than a different base-much less rumour, it seems there used to be truth and substance to this one.
"I used to be a little surprised," Asano is quoted as pronouncing by way of the London evening general when he was quizzed on the discipline following Japan's Olympic warm-up over South Africa.
But regardless of having simply three years of J-League expertise to his name, the player is ready for the challenge of a move to north London and is prepared to take the whole lot in his stride if he isn't involved with the first-workforce right away.
"I feel like i've the boldness to prevail anywhere i go. If i'm loaned elsewhere, my take on it's that I give it 100%," the 21-yr-old stated.
Asano, who would emerge as the 1/3 japanese participant to signal for Arsenal after Junichi Inamoto and Roy Miyaichi, scored 9 targets in 34 appearances in the course of the 2015 season to support Sanfrecce earn a third J-League crown in four years.
He made his senior worldwide debut in 2015 and has one intention from four appearances up to now.
He was once referred to as into the underneath-23 squad final month forward of the upcoming Olympics in Brazil and competed on the Toulon match where he encountered expertise future Arsenal team-mate Calum Chambers in the England workforce.