Arsene Wenger is “99 per cent confident” that Arsenal will sign Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez for a combined £52m this weekend, as the club scramble to bring in reinforcements in the final days of the transfer window.
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British media then reported Thursday evening that the Gunners had also agreed a £35m fee for Mustafi, the Valencia defender, after lengthy talks with the Spanish club.
On the highest spending single day of his Arsenal tenure, Wenger admits that the transfer window didn’t work out as planned.
Arsene Wenger admits he had to “restart” Arsenal’s transfer window after the Gunners missed out on their top targets in the transfer market.
After Arsenal defeated Watford 3-1 to get their first victory of the new Premier League season, manager Arsène Wenger spilled some more good news in his post-game press conference.
While disappointed to miss out on Vardy, Wenger says he sees similarities to the England global in Perez, who has switched from playing on the wing to through the middle while working his way up the football ladder.
“I’m happy when our supporters are happy, but my job is to make the right decisions”, the Frenchman told reporters at Arsenal’s London Colney training centre.
‘If that is exactly similar to the contract of the players and that maintains the supporters being happy, that is better still.
He added: “It’s important that a player who comes from Bolton, comes to a club where he concedes four goals in the first game at home, he has to play under huge pressure at Leicester and today he performs the way he does”.
“The moment we go ahead, we should continue to play well but we got complacent. I expected it to be easier than ever but it was more hard than ever”, the Gunners manager explained. “Because not a lot has happened”.
“It looks like it will be frenetic in the last three days”. And that everybody sat on his pounds until now. I don’t know exactly when we will announce it. “I expect the next three days to be very, very busy, so be on alert”.
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Meanwhile, Wenger has eased fears that left-back Nacho Monreal suffered an injury set-back in Saturday’s win over Watford.
