Revealed: The stumbling block in Vinicius Jr's talks with Real Madrid... as Arsenal wait to pounce

Vinicius Junior is poised to hold contract talks with Real Madrid this week amid ongoing interest from Arsenal.

The Brazilian star has only one year remaining on his deal at the Bernabeu and the Premier League champions are weighing a stunning move before the start of the new campaign.

All avenues are currently open ahead of the discussions between Vinicius’ advisors and Madrid president Florentino Perez. Daily Mail Sport understands that while the salary on offer is acceptable to Vinicius, the parties have yet to reach an agreement on a potential signing-on fee.

If Vinicius were to switch to the Premier League, the competition would have another global superstar.

Though the Premier League is comfortably the richest of Europe’s top five leagues, the world’s best attackers like Lamine Yamal, Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele play elsewhere.

‘We expect to have movements in the next few weeks, obviously,’ said Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta after his side’s pre-season match against Girona.

Vinicius Junior is set to hold contract talks with Real Madrid amid interest from Arsenal

The Brazilian striker returned to Real Madrid's pre-season set-up this week after his post-World Cup break

‘We want to get better like anybody else, and you can see the transfer market and our opponents... We won't sit still and we are very ambitious with what we are doing.

‘The margins are very small. Because we want to get better and the level is going to increase.

'We need to increase the competition internally. We need to make sure we identify the things that we don't have in the team.’

Arsenal are working on a deal to sign midfielder Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle and have already paid £34million for Club Brugge winger Christos Tzolis.

Arteta had insisted last week that Arsenal are hoping to make signings that give the club a ‘different dimension’.

His pledge to fans came after the Gunners ended their 22-year wait to be Premier League champions last season, while they also finished as runners-up in the Champions League.

Arteta said: ‘A lot is happening. From ownership to the board, the sporting director and myself, we know that we want to take this club to a different level.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has stressed the club are looking to sign players to take the club to a different level

‘That is going to require a better squad, better individuals. We have identified where we have opportunities to grow and to improve and to evolve our game and what is going to be needed to achieve that.

‘Hopefully very soon we can start to put things in a very concrete way.

‘Excellence has to be our standard and this has to drive to attack the future. The way we behave daily with more and more determination and ambition because we've shown that we've got it.

‘Now we have to show that we belong to this level and we want to increase and take this football club to a different dimension.’