Raul Sanllehi Lays Out Arsenal’s Plans For The January Transfer Window

Arsenal director of football, Raul Sanllehi laid out the club’s plans for the upcoming January transfer window.

He revealed that signing news players is a strong possibility, given the tactical nature of the mid-season window.

The Gunners replaced Unai Emery with Mikel Arteta, who’s first game in charge will be against Bournemouth on Boxing Day. It was astonishing and satisfying to see Arsenal spend nearly £150m in the summer window on players like Nicolas Pepe, David Luiz, Kieran Tierney and Gabriel Martinelli.

If anything, the club understands their new manager will need the same level of financial backing if he is to bring around any improvement. Sanllehi said, “It is in general. The strategic window by definition is the summer window that’s when you plan the season ahead. Last summer we did an incredible effort where we were very grateful to the support we got from our ownership.

“We went really one step further and made a real investment that increased our expectations for the season. The winter window is much more for tactical. We are going to get our conversations now between Mikel and Edu to see what things we can do.

“Again, the strategic window and the one Edu and his team are really working on is for the long-term and that’s the summer window.”

Arsenal’s immediate form of business should be to find an experienced and capable centre-back. Their defence line has faltered way too many times to expect anything much of them at this point.