Elneny set to leave Basel for Arsenal 'in the coming days'

FC Basel have confirmed that Mohamed Elneny missed training on Monday and reveal that a transfer could be completed “in the coming days”.

One of the midfielder’s former coaches with the Egypt national side had claimed last week that the player was having a medical with Arsenal, who are reportedly paying £5 million for the 23-year-old.

Basel resumed training on Monday following their winter break but the club confirmed that the midfielder did not take part.

“Also absent was Mohamed Elneny, in which there could be a transfer in the coming days,” the Swiss club claimed in a training report on their website.

Elneny, who has been capped 39 times by Egypt, has scored four goals in 21 appearances for Basel this season.

When asked if a move for Elneny was imminent after Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Newcastle United on Saturday, Arsene Wenger replied: “I have nothing to say because he's not our player and we have not signed anybody and we are not imminently in a position where we can say we signed anybody.

"We're out there to get somebody but at the moment we haven't signed anybody."