Arteta happy with Arsenal’s January window

Arsenal had a successful January window in the last week. 

They signed Cedric Soares and Pablo Mari and new boss Mikel Arteta is really happy with the two new signings. 

The Spaniard said: “What I want is to have more options and more availability to be a little more unpredictable about what we’re going to do.

“Having different faces of our play and different options makes it difficult for our opponent.

“We have done so far the business we could do, which are loans at the moment. Further on when those loans come to an end, we will see where we are.”

Arteta added: “He [Soares] knows the league and he doesn’t really need to adapt so I’m very pleased.

“We were short at right-back, we’ve had some big issues in that position before.

“We only have two players there and Maitland-Niles isn’t really a right back and Hector [Bellerin] has had injuries so to bring in a player of that quality wasn’t easy.”

On Mari, the boss said: “For me, he is very important, he balances what I want to do from the back line.”

Mari has no PL experience or European for that matter and Cedric is out till March and hence with his Southampton contract up in May, could have been signed for free in the summer. Do you think Arsenal did well or got it wrong?

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