Lothar Matthäus insists: Josip Drmic will join Arsenal this summer for €4.5m [Blick]

At the end of March, German legend Lothar Matthäus said on Sky Germany that Arsenal had signed Nurnberg striker Josip Drmic.

Matthäus said at the time that Drmic’s wife was in London looking for a place to live and this was subsequently rubbished as the Swiss striker is not married.

Today, Matthäus has insisted that Drmic will join Arsenal this summer, in an interview with Swiss newspaper Blick.

Drmic, a 21-year-old striker, has scored 16 goals this season and was earlier this week linked with a move to Bayer Leverkusen.

But, Matthäus tells Blick: “Although now Dortmund, Gladbach and Leverkusen all have an interest. I’m saying: Josip Drmic will switch to Arsenal.”

The former German national team captain added: “I made a mistake. I said his wife was already looking for apartments. The fact is that this is his girlfriend. Drmic has had a girlfriend for nine months. She has lived five or six months with him in Nuremberg.”

Finally, Matthäus says: “Look, if a journalist hears something, he researched and wrote that then its true. I’m kind of journalist and have heard the rumour of a move to Arsenal. I then found out that this is true.”

Blick add that Josip Drmic’s contract allows him to leave Nurnberg this summer for 4.5 million euros.