Arsenal in transfer hunt for £50m-rated striker Donyell Malen who they sold to PSV Eindhoven for just £200,000 in 2017

ARSENAL are reportedly willing to spend big money to re-sign PSV forward Donyell Malen, having sold him for just £200k two years ago.

The 20-year-old spent two years at Arsenal between 2015 and 2017 but failed to break into the first team under Arsene Wenger.

The Frenchman allowed Malen to be discarded – but the tricky attacker has gone from strength to strength since.

PSV’s number nine is the top scorer in the Eredivisie this season with eight goals in eight games and Tuttosport claim that it could take as much as £50million for the Gunners to prise him away from Mark van Bommel’s side.

Malen scored seven goals in 24 games for Arsenal’s Under-23s after being plucked from PSV’s rivals Ajax, but has remodelled himself since moving back to his native Holland.

He scored ten league goals last term as his current side were pipped to the title by an Ajax team boasting the likes of Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong.

And his early performances this season were enough to see his national team boss Ronald Koeman hand him his first international call-up last month.

Malen grabbed this chance with both hands – scoring 21 minutes into his first cap to put the Netherlands 3-2 up against fierce rivals Germany in Hamburg.

Having so far outscored the likes of Dusan Tadic, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Hakim Ziyech in the Eredivisie – PSV could soon become resigned to losing their star man.

Especially as he has averaged an exceptional 86 minutes per goal in the league this season.

The Gunners already possess a lot of firepower in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette – the pair have bagged ten goals this season between them already.

But £72million man Nicolas Pepe has so failed to fully settle.

And with academy starlets like Reiss Nelson, Bukayo Saka and Joe Willock thriving, the Gunners could be keen to bring back another in Malen.