But now Wenger looks like adding to his numbers with deals for Deportivo La Caruna’s Perez and Valencia’s Mustafi expected in the coming days, although not before Saturday’s trip to Watford.
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German worldwide Shkodran Mustafi has arrived in London to undergo a medical ahead of his proposed move to the Emirates.
And on Mustafi, he said, “I think he’s a good signing but time will tell”.
They track transfer stories and give them a score out of 5.0, with the hottest Whispers closest to 5.0. These two deals are likely to go through and the Frenchman says his side are 99% confident of completing the deals.
Should both players complete their transfers, Arsenal’s spending for the close season will be close to 100 million pounds.
Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka remains the only senior player Arsenal have signed this summer, despite the club being linked with a host of players.
The 24-year-old is said to be on the verge of securing a move to north London from Valencia, with Arsene Wenger finally set to end the wait for new arrivals at the club.
After watching Arsenal claim only one point from the first two rounds of the Premier League season, fan uproar hit heights that resulted in the manager barraged by insults from the club’s supporters, chants in the stands and hostile questions from the press.
“I’m happy when our supporters are happy”, he said.
Manchester United signed Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic for free on the transfer market this summer.
With the Manchester clubs spend a combined $400 million, Wenger said “it was a unusual transfer market – I expected it to be easier than ever but it was more hard than ever”. “Because not a lot has happened”.
“You hit these prices which are very hard to understand compared to the quality of the players”, said Wenger.
With defenders Gabriel Paulista, Per Mertesacker and Carl Jenkinson all out injured and Calum Chambers struggling to find form, Wenger is relying on twenty-year-old Premier League rookie Rob Holding to partner with Laurent Koscielny at the back – a potentially precarious situation.
“It looks like it will be frenetic until last few days”.
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“If they are here, much better for us, and if not, life will go on and Depor will continue as it has for so many years”.
