Exclusive: Arsenal Hope to Sign £56m Quartet by the End of the Week

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Clement Grenier

Arsene Wenger is also hoping to bring in Lyon attacking midfielder Clement Grenier, with Arsenal having already failed with their first bid for the Lyon youngster.

The 22 year old French international is said to be open to a move to join Arsenal and Lyon’s well publicised financial woes could well see the Stade Gerland side consider offers for the creative talent though it appears that owner Jean-Michel Aulas is after more than the initial reported bid of £6m made by the Premier League side.

Lyon are reportedly set to sell star striker Bafetimbi Gomis, with a number of Premier League side’s taken an interest in the powerful forward, but Aulas will seemingly need to cash in on more than just one first team talent in order to balance the books this summer.

Arsene Wenger believes an offer of £10m would be enough to persuade the Ligue 1 side to sell, a fee he is ready to fork out.

Wenger is keen to bring in his new signings so as to have them take part in the club’s pre-season programme and will hope to bring in this quartet of talents as soon as possible.

The Arsenal boss has successfully began to trim back his first team squad in preparation for new additions, offloading big earners like Andrei Arshavin as well as releasing the likes of Denilson and Sebastien Squillaci with Johan Djourou joining Hamburg on loan with a view to making a permanent exit.

Others are likely to follow in the coming weeks as Wenger looks for willing buyers for Marouane Chamakh, Nicklas Bendtner, Park Chu-Young, Andre Santos, Vito Mannone and Emmanuel Frimpong to name just six.

Wenger has been handed a significant transfer fund to invest in squad improvements but knows that in order to change the club’s wage structure he needs to cut overall costs and as such will opt to pursue a quality over quantity approach to his playing staff in 2013/14 and beyond.


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