1 Lucas Perez wants to leave Arsenal this summer

Arsenal have rejected a £10.9million bid from Deportivo La Coruna for wantaway striker Lucas Perez, according to the player’s agent.

The Spanish forward is keen to leave the Gunners and return to Spain this summer after being deemed surplus to requirements at the Emirates Stadium.

Perez has even been stripped of his number nine shirt and he is eager to re-join Deportivo, who he left to join Arsenal last summer.

Manager Arsene Wenger had even said he would ‘help’ the striker leave the Gunners this summer, after admitting he had plenty of forward options.

But it appears the Premier League club want to recoup more of the £17m they paid for him only one year ago, as they have turned down a bid of £10.9m from the player’s former side, according to Perez’s agent Rodrigo Lovelle.

“It was a more than reasonable offer for a player who Arsenal have devalued,” Lovelle told La Voz de Galicia.

“But the club have turned down the offer and so far they have rejected everything.

“Most recently there has been an offer of €10m (£9.1m) plus €2m (£1.8m) in variables which they didn’t consider and then Depor went up to €12m (£10.9m) without variables and again they rejected it.”