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Arsene Wenger will move for West Ham contract rebel Winston Reid next month.

The Gunners boss has targeted the New Zealand centre-half because he believes West Ham may be tempted to sell rather than lose Reid for nothing in the summer.

West Ham are desperately trying to get the 26-year-old to sign a new deal but Reid appears to have set his sights on a move away from Upton Park.

He wants £60,000-a-week and a £1m signing-on fee if he is a free agent in the summer with Liverpool also monitoring developments closely.

But Wenger wants to bolster his squad in January with a defender top of his wish list and Arsenal have watched Reid in every single game for the past two months.

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Hammers boss Sam Allardyce will be desperate not to sell Reid but Arsenal believe they may be able to tempt them with a cut-price offer.

Arsenal have also been scouting Celtic’s Virgil Van Dijk since last summer and the Dutchman could be available for around £10m in January.

They have also been watching Ipswich’s Tyrone Mings as one for the future but they will go for Reid and then look at other targets.

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Arsenal are also looking at a holding midfielder and Wenger has been told he has got £20m to spend in January and therefore may be able to get two players in.

But it is understood that a defender is his No1 priority as Laurent Koscielny has a chronic Achilles problem and has been missing games. There is a fear that he will also miss a chunk of the second half of the season.

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