Sunday, October 19, 2008

Arsenal after Liege star

Arsenal and Lyon have entered the race for highly-rated Standard Liege captain Steven Defour according to his agent.

The Belgium international, rated at £8 million, impressed many Premier League viewers during the Champions League bond with Liverpool and then during the elimination of Everton in the Uefa Cup.

His agent has now confirmed England could be the next instruction for the 20-year-old, with Everton and Middlesbrough both reportedly interested, patch Arsenal’s scouts prefabricated the activate to Belgium in visit to monitor Defour’s improvement.

But Premier League sides are not the exclusive ones fascinated in the midfielder, as Ajax, as well as Palermo appear to be stabbing on his services according to representative Paul Stefani.

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