Arsenal will hold talks with Sturm Graz this week as the Austrian club push to sign Mika Biereth permanently

Arsenal and Austrian Bundesliga club Sturm Graz will hold talks this week over a permanent deal for Mika Biereth, according to the Evening Standard.

The Gunners forward spent the second half of 2023-24 on loan with the newly-crowned Austrian Bundesliga champions, weighing in with nine goals and four assists in 22 games across all competitions.

Sturm Graz are keen on retaining the services of Biereth permanently, and Arsenal are expected to sell the 21-year-old as he has just one year left on his current contract.

The Austrian outfit are not the only ones keen on the Denmark youth international, with Championship club Sheffield Wednesday interested in bringing him to the second-tier of English football.

Biereth recently called himself a lower-version hybrid of Erling Haaland and Harry Kane, and admitted he dreams of scoring regularly for Arsenal going forward.

However, that is unlikely to happen as he has yet to make his first-team debut and is likely to be sold in the coming months.

The London-born striker bagged 21 goals in 21 games for Fulham Under-18s during his final season before joining Arsenal in July 2021 and was named in the matchday squad four times that season.

He moved to Eredivisie side RKC Waalwijk on loan for the 2022-23 campaign, scoring twice in 13 games before spending the first half of the season with Scottish Premiership side Motherwell, where he notched six goals in 14 games.

Sturm Graz pipped Wednesday to his services in January due to the availability of European football and could successfully secure him permanently once talks with the Gunners go well.