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Arsene Wenger will launch a £22million bid for Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain this week.

Arsenal boss Wenger is increasingly confident of landing the Argentinian star after Italian champions Juventus were put off when Real insisted their £18m valuation was nowhere near enough.

However, Real president Florentino Perez was quoted last week as saying that the Gunners shouldn't bother if they were planning on offering 'only' £25.5m for the 25-year-old.

Higuain, who is currently on around £130,000-a-week, would be the sort of big-name, proven-commodity signing that Arsenal fans are craving in a summer when their club is said to have fortunes to spend.

Meanwhile, defender Laurent Koscielny - a target for Barcelona and Bayern Munich - has made it clear to the Gunners that he wants to stay.

Koscielny is under contract until 2017 and Arsenal insist he is not for sale, is happy at the Emirates and that his young family are settled in London.

Meanwhile, newly-promoted Crystal Palace are keen on taking Arsenal's Costa Rican striker Joel Campbell on a season-long loan.

Campbell, 20, who has 24 caps, has already enjoyed impressive loan spells at France's Lorient and Real Betis in Spain, so a work permit will not be an issue.

A year playing for a Premier League club would also help his development.

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