Arsenal future transfer plans revealed

Arsenal achieved a lot over the summer transfer window. They were also found lacking in other aspects. Despite a record spend and multiple outgoings, there is still a lot of work left to do.

Splitting the transfer window into two categories, one left plenty to be desired and one hit numerous nails on their respective heads.

In regards to signings, bringing in six players all meeting the strategical plan set out well in advance of the summer constitutes an undoubted degree of success.

Questions will be asked of the fees spent out on English duo Ben White and Aaron Ramsdale, who joined on the expensive transfers we’ve come to expect from internal Premier League transactions. The ‘taxes’ that come with homegrown talent were on show in these instances.

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Arsenal future transfer window plans revealed as Mikel Arteta eyes further signings to complement his £150m worth of summer arrivals

They were nonetheless problem areas for Arsenal and both come at ideal stages of their careers. Able build on their already established qualities while on wages more suited to the club’s finances falls in line with the revised approach.

Nuno Tavares and Albert Sambi Lokonga add depth in previously shallow departments, while Takehiro Tomiyasu and Martin Odegaard are fully expected to be regular fixtures in Mikel Arteta’s lineups for the foreseeable future.

While more could have been done, any further incomings were reliant on movement out of the club. This is where Arsenal faltered, albeit with the heavily discussed mitigation of navigating through a COVID-19 market for players on with qualities and wages that turned potential buyers away. That, and the reality of not being able to complete such a wealth of activity in a single window. Rebuilds simply do not happen all at once.

Yet, were Arsenal to have succeeded in moving on Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah then the soon-to-be centre-forward conundrum could have been attacked with more purpose this summer.

That pair will not be here come the end of the season and with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang having one year left on his deal at that stage and Folarin Balogun still very much a work in progress, it’s a situation that will need tackling.

As per The Athletic, the centre-forward slot is set to feature ‘prominently’ in the coming windows as a priority area to explore.

Just like a backup goalkeeper and new No. 10 couldn’t be dallied on in the window just passed, the same applies at No. 9. Tammy Abraham and Lautaro Martinez were two names heavily featured in the headlines near the closing stages of the window but neither are set to be readily available in the months to come with the former joining Roma and the latter closing in on a new deal at Inter.

Striker isn’t the only department that will be looked at, and rightly so.

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Arsenal Eye Central Midfield Transfer in Coming Windows

Central midfield is not only where Arsenal are light in bodies, but light in quality too.

Rumours persist around Mohamed Elneny’s future and if he were to leave before the remaining European windows close then Arteta faces taking on a Premier League season with hopeful runs in the Carabao Cup and FA Cup with just four recognised options.

Sambi is one who will continue to develop and as of yet Ainsley Maitland-Niles hasn’t proved himself of the standard required to be playing regularly for Arsenal in the centre of the park.

Were Granit Xhaka to have been sold then it would have been tackled in the window just passed but having not received a satisfactory offer from any club he remained put, penning a one-year extension.

Whether it was ‘value protection’ or not, he will enter his 30’s in just over a years’ time while Thomas Partey will not be getting any younger either.

Maitland-Niles will surely be sold and Elneny, whether moved on this month or not, isn’t set for a a new deal any time soon so will also be gone come next summer.

Miguel Azeez will be back from his loan at Portsmouth and the speed of his development could have a say in how the midfield area is viewed, but the end result remains Arsenal will be active for a midfielder and striker come January, the next summer, and perhaps even after that.

Two key positions that fall next up on the agenda will be the talk of the town. Rumours of long-standing interest in Yves Bissouma remains in tact, while Alexander Isak, a dream fit for the centre-forward role at Arsenal, will surely also be on the radar.

Hopes of these moves being fast-tracked to January may need tempering, however. Already a notoriously difficult window to operate in, the only realistic area that could be bolstered would be midfield. And, after the net spend just gone, you would imagine sales will need to start flowing out of the club first.