Hector Bellerin is close to a new contract that will more than double his wages and commit his future at Arsenal until well into the next decade.

His current £40,000-a-week contract, which expires in 2019, has been the subject of renegotiation now for several weeks and all sides are poised to formally agree a new deal worth around £100,000-a-week until 2022. “We are speaking and are now a lot closer than we were two weeks ago; in a normal situation he will sign,” said Bellerin’s agent Albert Botines.