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Alberto Costa to Arsenal

Q: How likely is Alberto Costa to join Arsenal?

Transfer Tracker rates Alberto Costa to Arsenal at 0%, a longshot on the current reporting from 1 reporter.

Porto

Arsenal

Defender · 23y · Portugal · contract until 2030

Chance it happens in January

No trusted reporter yet. Stories like this complete 6 in 100 times.

Carried by fussball-news via CaughtOffside (aggregator).

Fee: Not reported
Value: €36m
Reporters: 1

Where he ends up in the January windowEvery outcome by the January deadline, adding up to 100%. A move in a later window is not counted. Open a club for its rumour.

ArsenalThis rumour
Man UnitedRumour page
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Man CityRumour page
Other clubNot yet named
Stays at PortoNo move

What the number is based on

ReportingNo trusted reporterOne aggregator reportAgainst the move
ContractRuns to June 20303 years 8 months leftAgainst the move
ArsenalRoom to spendMoves from Liga Portugal to Premier League are commonFor the move
FeeNot reportedValue €36m

The story so far

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“Arsenal and Man United weigh up move for €65m-rated wide man ahead of January window. Arsenal and Manchester United are reportedly interested in signing FC Porto right-back Alberto Costa, with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain also monitoring his progress ahead of the…”

Chance it happens in January

Long shot

Value: €36m

AuthorTransfer Tracker AnalystLast updated3 Nov 2026StatusUp to date

Arsenal linked with Porto's Alberto Costa, but talk stays unverified

The situation

Alberto Costa's name is doing the rounds again, with Arsenal supposedly plotting a January move for the Porto right back. The talk, such as it is, has Manchester United also weighing up a bid, with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain mentioned as interested parties too. Nothing here amounts to talks or an agreement. It is interest at the gossip stage, built around a reported €65m valuation that looks steep next to what he would actually fetch today.

The reporting

The story traces back to fussball-news, whose report was relayed by CaughtOffside on 27 October. No trusted reporter has picked it up since, and every outlet running with it is a tabloid or an aggregator. That leaves the sourcing thin, and the €65m figure should be treated with real caution until a trusted reporter engages with it.

The outlook

Given all that, this sits firmly in long shot territory. Costa only joined Porto in July 2025 and has 42 months left on his contract once the January window opens, which hands Porto total control over any fee and no reason to sell cheaply. He is valued at €36m, well below the number being floated, and nothing suggests Arsenal have moved beyond background interest. For this to go anywhere, a genuine bid would need to appear, and right now there is none.

The context

Arsenal have paid around this kind of money before, handing Porto €35m for Fabio Vieira in 2022, the same fee they gave Manchester City for Oleksandr Zinchenko that year and Real Madrid for Martin Ødegaard in 2021. A fee near €36m would fit that pattern; €65m would not.