According to a fresh report from The Athletic, Arsenal are in advanced talks to sign Paris Saint-Germain's fringe player, Layvin Kurzawa.

The 27-year-old left-back has largely been just a bit-part player in Thomas Tuchel's squad throughout the 2019/20 campaign - seeing how he's only managed to play 838 minutes across 14 games in all competitions - and could be heading out the exit door in the near future.

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The Athletic also states that the Gunners are hoping to avoid paying any sort of fee to land their target - since his contract will officially run down in the summer.

And seeing how they currently don't have that many options at left-back - with Kieran Tierney still struggling with injuries and Nacho Monreal long gone - this does look like a sensible buy from Mikel Arteta.

However, when we compare Kurzawa's figures with Sead Kolasinac, the Gunners' current first option with Tierney absent, we can see that there's not much between them and Arteta would land a player of a similar profile if this transfer goes through.

All figures were taken prior to Arsenal and PSG's clashes with Sheffield United and Lorient respectively.

Arsenal's defender has played more minutes so far in his career, per Whoscored, mustering a total of 14964 as opposed to his counterpart's 13060 across the two clubs he's played for in Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain.

But even with that being said, the differences between the two are marginal.

Defensively, Kurzawa is the better interceptor of the ball, averaging 2.3 per game as opposed to his rival's 1.6 but at the same time, Kolasinac can boast with 2.2 tackles per game, which marginally trumps the other player's 1.9.

When it comes to their abilities in one vs one situations, once again, there's only a hair between the two defenders as the Frenchman has been dribbled past 0.7 times per game so far and the Bosnian 0.8 times per game.

The only notable difference can actually be found in their attacking output and the final product in the opposition's box as Kurzawa's 17 goals and 22 assists represents a superior overall goal contribution tally to Kolasinac's eight goals and 24 assists.

But at the end of the day, goals and assists are really what we should measure a left-back's quality by, regardless of the fact that the modern game dictates full-backs are more involved in the attacking phase of play.

Aside from Kurzawa's goal tally, there isn't anything major to split the two players and it will be intriguing to see if the Ligue 1 talent can actually represent an upgrade on Kolasinac.