The transfer window is now drawing to a close so we’ll bring you all the latest transfer rumours and gossip from around the globe. “I am 99 per cent confident”, he said.
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But Wenger failed in a high-profile bid to land Jamie Vardy from Leicester and the deal for Mustafi has been rumbling on for weeks.
Both players are yet to complete a medical with Arsenal, but Wenger said he thinks the transfers will be wrapped up before next week’s deadline day.
“Not for me, not for us”, he said. Today, two players are undergoing medicals with Arsenal today…
Asked if he gets stopped in the street by supporters urging him splash the cash to keep pace with their big-spending rivals, Wenger added: “Yes, many times”. The twenty-four-year-old center-back will provide a strong defensive presence for the Gunners, having emerged as a leader in a turbulent season at Valencia last year.
“He’s [Mesut Ozil is] not far now”, Wenger said on Friday. The fact that he could go out somewhere and play?
“He can play as a number nine or, more likely, on the right-hand side of attack”.
Wenger may trim his squad, albeit it temporarily, with a loan move in the offing for defender Calum Chambers, who started alongside Holding in the defeat to Liverpool.
“I believe (Campbell) is a bit the victim of the size of the squad”. We’re getting a young but experienced German worldwide who will likely help anchor the back four for years to come. He has since captured interest from a whole host of clubs, but the lure of Champions League football at Arsenal was too good to ignore.
“Honestly, I expected it to be easier than ever but it looks like it will be harder than ever”. If you look at the last season for example, it is not necessarily the club who bought the most that is in front. Not a lot has happened.
“It looks like when you meet other clubs and you have (a player with) an English passport, you hit these prices which are very hard to understand compared to the quality of the players”. Everybody has sat on their pounds until now.
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Starting with Cazorla would give Arsenal, we hope, much more control of the ball and make us more creative, but then we would be left a little more exposed at the back and the likes of Troy Deeny and Odion Ighalo have proved that they can hurt teams in this way.
