The Frenchman also laughed off suggestions that the proposed £17-million deal is a panic buy as a result of pressure from fans.
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They join Granit Xhaka, Takuma Asano, Rob Holding and Kelechi Nwakali as new signings made this summer.
“It was a odd transfer market”.
The north London club failed with a move for Jamie Vardy, while they were out-priced in their move for Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette.
Arsenal fought off interest from Liverpool to land Shkodran Mustafi and are paying Valencia around €41m for the Germany global, it has been claimed in Spain.
“Look at my face”.
“Look at my face, is it the face of somebody who does a panic buy? No”.
“We are working on the deals”, Wenger said. “Here and there I met some people in the VIP rooms before the games, but it’s not the best place to deal”, he said.
“The clubs who want to sell to English clubs, today they fetch a huge amount of money so it takes a long time to settle and then the clubs resist, resist and maybe in the next three days everybody will find agreements. I expect the next three days to be very, very busy, so be on alert!” But after scoring 17 goals in La Liga last season, Lucas is being earmarked by Wenger for a role through the middle.
Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez have been signed by Arsenal, subject to paperwork being completed, according to Arsene Wenger. He is aware of the Premier League having spent two-and-a-half years with Everton as a teenager, but is yet to make his first appearance having only played in the Europa League for the Toffees.
“He’s a late developer because he played in a different position”. He has moved centrally and in a successful way. “But I think it will be announced early next week”.
He said: “I’m very angry because we can’t see the danger of teams when we go ahead”.
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“It was a unusual transfer market, I expected it to be easier than ever, it has been more hard than ever”, Wenger told his media conference at London Colney on Friday morning.
