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By Jamie Spencer Arsenal were pursuing Turkey winger Oguz Aydin prior to his €6m (£5m) transfer to Fenerbahce earlier this month, the president of his former club has claimed. Aydin finished 2023/24 with 20 goals and assists in the Super Lig after a blistering end to the campaign – he found the net ten times in Alanyaspor’s final 12 games alone. But that wasn’t enough to make Turkey’s final Euro 2024 squad after being included on the provisional list. It still brought him summer transfer attention, though. Cihan Aktas, president of Bucaspor where Dutch-born Aydin started out in the youth ranks…

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