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Offer on the table: Arsenal chase “LASK miracle worker”

Ivan Porobija in the LASK club jacket.

(Bild: Pressefoto Scharinger © Albin Schuster)

Although the Croatian is hardly known to the public, if there's anyone at LASK who embodies international soccer, it's top physiotherapist Ivan Porobija! But now, according to a Croatian soccer insider, the man with the "golden hands" has an offer from Arsenal London on the table . . . 

Croatian soccer journalist Tomislav Gabelic is considered an insider at Ivan Porobija's former club Hajduk Split - and learned that Arsenal would like to bring the man with the golden hands, who has been at LASK since 2022, to London as soon as possible, but at the latest next summer with the start of preparations for the 2024/25 season. Porobija did not deny this in a conversation with Gabelic, but did not confirm it either.

Offers from Europe's biggest leagues

According to the Croatian journalist, who runs the soccer portal 24SATA, Porobija only emphasized that he had received several offers from the biggest leagues in Europe, but that this was nothing unusual in soccer, that he had a contract with LASK until the summer and that he would like to talk to the Linz club management about his future in the next few days. . .

Which is why many will now be asking themselves: Who is this Ivan Prorobija, who has been under the radar for the Linzers so far?

Porobija has also looked after these world stars

The fact is: the Croatian worked for many years in the Czech Republic, England, Spain, Germany and was a permanent member of the national soccer team in Ukraine. In addition to Hajduk Split and LASK, Dnipro, Sevilla and Schalke have also relied on his "golden hands". Stars such as Marko Arnautović, Jerome Boateng, Nikola Kalinić, Ivan Strinić, Ivan Perišić, Ante Rebić, . . . went.

Which is why it doesn't seem so unrealistic that a top Premier League club like Arsenal London would now want to sign the internationally well-connected Porobija.