Overview

• The Athletic, Sky and other reports say Arsenal and Bayer Leverkusen have an agreement, with the 23-year-old understood to have settled personal terms.
• The package is widely reported at €52 million plus a 10% sell-on clause for Bayer.
• dpa reports via Die Zeit that the first season would be a loan with a mandatory purchase that Sky says will trigger.
• SPORT1 and kicker say negotiations are still ongoing and note a €60 million release clause in Hincapié’s contract.
• A sale would continue Leverkusen’s extensive summer turnover after departures of Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Granit Xhaka, Jonathan Tah, Lukas Hradecky and coach Xabi Alonso.