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Tashan Deniran-Alleyne

'Partey and Aouar incoming!' - Arsenal fans go nuts as wonderkid reacts to Gabriel transfer news

For the second time in as many days, an image posted by Edu's son has prompted a massive reaction from Arsenal supporters on social media.

Luigi, who plays for Arsenal's Under-18 side after joining last year from Corinthians, uploaded a picture of his father on his Instagram story on Friday, with the timestamp given as 23:22pm.

The image showed Edu in the middle of a conversation on his mobile phone, with the caption: "Focado", which translates from Portuguese to 'focused'.

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With the technical director now assuming more responsibility over the Gunners' transfer dealings after the departure of head of football Raul Sanllehi, fans immediately flocked to Twitter to speculate on whether the Brazilian was carrying out transfer negotiations to sign some players.

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And it would appear that Luigi has hinted at the imminent arrival of Lille defender Gabriel Magalhaes.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Fabrizio Romano tweeted that an agreement with the Gunners and Lille has now been reached, with the transfer fee set to be £27m plus adds-ons.

An hour later, Luigi tweeted the eyes emoji and also 'liked' a post stating the north London outfit are set to announce the Gabriel deal at some point next week.

As expected, many Arsenal fans have been in touch with Edu's son.

One fan said: "Announce Thomas Partey."

Another said: "LUIGI TELL UR DAD EDU TO GET AOUAR AND PARTEY."

And that was the theme among several other responses...

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