Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has failed with £5.5million bid for Sevilla centre-back Federico Fazio.

Wenger saw the Argentine, 22, as a successor to Kolo Toure following his move to Manchester City, says The Sun.

But Fazio is contracted until 2012 and his agent Eduardo Gamarnik insisted: "The situation's clear. Federico doesn't want to be sold or loaned."