What Unai Emery has said about PSG star Adrien Rabiot amid increasing Arsenal transfer links

Arsenal are in the market for a defensive midfielder this summer. The 21-year-old Adrien Rabiot, who has spent the past two years under Emery has been mentioned as a possible target. The France international has just one year left on his deal with PSG. There have been suggestions he could move to Arsenal. Emery speaking to Marti Perarnau, said:"Let's talk about Rabiot. He's a central midfielder, who is more comfortable playing as a defensive midfielder rather than a creative one. Even if he remains more of box-to-box, rather than a defensive midfielder." "When you want to play with a defensive, creative and box-to-box midfielders in fixed positions, Rabiot finds himself confronted to a problem. He has to run, run, run and not play in a fixed position statically. And even less so with his back turned on the action. “Rabiot doesn’t really like playing as a defensive midfielder, he likes playing as a box-to-box, but I prefer him as a defensive midfielder. That’s why after the elimination against Real Madrid [in the 2017/18 Champions League], I told him he would play as a defensive midfielder. “In that position, he can be faced with play and switch around with [Marco] Verratti. He is more competitive in these conditions. With certain players, you can’t impose a strict idea. You have to adapt yourself to their characteristics in order to win in individual and collective competitiveness.”

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