Mikel Arteta has underlined the importance of selling players to trim the Arsenal squad in the January window.
“Well, we have a large squad, we knew that and a lot of things we wanted to do in the summer, we couldn’t accomplish for different reasons,” Arteta said at his pre-match press conference.
“There are some players that are going to go on loan, they are going to leave, and that’s the priority at the moment. We cannot sustain the numbers that we have in terms of substitutions.
“We are looking to do that and then we will see if we have the right opportunities in the positions that we need some more help. We are working with the club to find that.”
Arteta has also asked fans to maintain calm and urged patience over the development of Gunners’ kids like Smith-Rowe, Saka and Martinelli.
“We need to be careful with that (stifling the development of a youngster), but obviously financially, it’s not only us, it’s every club in the Premier League who has been hit with big numbers. We know that this is not going to change from the last year or so and we are going to have to add some of how we want to improve the team in different ways financially.
“We will decide whether it’s a loan or buying players in relation to the opportunity that we have in the market.”
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