Ivan Toney might contemplate free company in 2025 if the appropriate membership does not current itself this summer season.
The 28-year-old, who earned a call-up to England’s 33-player preliminary squad for Euro 2024 on Tuesday, has 12 months remaining on his present deal and is open to leaving the membership so as to additional his profession.
Toney was as soon as valued by Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank at £100m, with the Dane saying in February that his prized asset ‘will probably be bought in the summertime’, however with such little time remaining on his contract, Brentford will contemplate gives in extra of £45m.
Arsenal and Chelsea are long-term suitors who’ve mentioned Toney, however he is by no means been high of both membership’s wishlists, whereas 90min revealed in April that Manchester United are taken with signing Toney as they search so as to add expertise and management to their squad.
All three golf equipment are retaining their eyes on different high strikers, too, with Victor Osimhen, Benjamin Sesko, Viktor Gyokeres amongst these linked; and with Toney looking for wages within the area of £250,000-per-week, it stays to be seen whether or not a proposal will likely be forthcoming.
90min understands that Toney is ready to remain and go away as a free agent. He feels loyalty to Brentford, having returned in January after an eight-month ban for breaching betting rules, however would solely comply with a brand new deal if his wage calls for are met, and that is troublesome for Brentford to comply with.
Had been this situation to play out, Toney may play a season on the Gtech Group Stadium alongside £30m club-record signing Igor Thiago, who will be part of from Membership Brugge on July 1. Brentford would then hope that he hits the heights of his first season as a Premier League participant, when he scored 20 high flight objectives to push himself additional into the England setup within the construct as much as the 2026 World Cup.
In the summertime of 2025, Toney would then be free to barter with golf equipment with out the burden of a switch price needing to be paid, which in flip might make his sizeable wage calls for extra palatable for these concerned in discussions, and it may get him a wholesome signing-on price regardless that he’ll be approaching 30 by then.
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