BRIEF-Soccer-Arsenal in talks with Fiorentina over Felipe Melo

MILAN, July 4 (Reuters) - Fiorentina may be willing to sell Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo to Arsenal if the English Premier League club's versatile fullback Emmanuel Eboue is included in the deal, the Serie A side said on Saturday.

The 25-year-old has only just signed a new contract with the Florence club until 2013 but had a 25 million euro ($35 million) escape clause inserted into the new deal.

Fiorentina said in a statement that only Arsenal had come close to triggering the escape clause and the price could be lowered if Ivory Coast defender Eboue moved the other way. (Reporting by Mark Meadows; Editing by Ken Ferris

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