Arsenal Agree Fee to Sell Trossard to Besiktas 2025

Arsenal are selling Leandro Trossard to Besiktas, with a transfer fee agreed and the 31-year-old Belgium forward now cleared to fly to Istanbul for a medical. The Turkish Super Lig club confirmed in a statement that permanent transfer negotiations have commenced with both player and club.

Trossard joined Arsenal from Brighton in January 2023 for £21m plus add-ons and was contracted at the Emirates until 2027. He leaves having made 174 appearances for the Gunners, contributing 36 goals and 34 assists — numbers that made him one of Mikel Arteta's most reliable options across multiple positions.

His final season at the club was his most prominent. Trossard started 21 Premier League games as Arsenal won the title and was in the starting XI for the Champions League final defeat against Paris St-Germain. A key cog across the campaign, and now heading to Turkey.

At international level, Trossard started all six of Belgium's games at this summer's World Cup, scoring twice as the Red Devils reached the quarter-finals. He has 57 caps to his name.

For football fans watching the transfer window closely, Trossard's exit signals another shift in Arsenal's squad as Arteta rebuilds around the core that finally ended the club's Premier League title drought. What Besiktas give him now, and what Arsenal bring in to replace him, will define both clubs' business before the window closes.

First reported by BBC Sport Football.