Arsenal: 3 uncertainties during summer transfer window

3. How Many Players Can Arsenal Sell This Window?

Following on from how much cash there is to expend, whatever the transfer kitty may be it will have to be supplemented with player sales.

There are a tonne of bodies to get out of north London this summer and we can only thank the heavens above that Richard Garlick was able to take up his new role at the club sooner than originally planned. The fall-out of the Super League scandal fast-tracked his appointment, having initially been penciled in for the end of the campaign.

With the number of players either out on loan or with contracts expiring by 2023 coming up to 20, the volume of work is extensive.

Shifting attention to shipping players out once the two aforementioned deals are secured, the real work, in many ways, starts now. However, we just don’t know how much can be feasibly achieved in one window.

The striker situation is one that exemplifies the situation best: Eddie Nketiah has no future at Arsenal and will be sold at some point, but the club opted to offer him a new deal to keep him tied down so they could sell him on later down the line for what is hoped to be a bigger fee.

As for Alexandre Lacazette, Arsenal have to sell him this summer if they have any sense about them. He will garner some money and keeping him on for the final 12 months of his year is anywhere up to £20m missed out on. However, because there is such an obscene amount of futures to sort out, it wouldn’t be surprising at all to see him stay.

Thus, as laid out, we’re in the dark and will remain in the dark for large spells of this window. Only time will begin the clarify what we can expect from Arsenal; just keeping riding the wave until it either crashes into another or rests calmly on a tropical beach.