Arsenal have reportedly given Mikel Arteta the green light to spend in the January transfer window.
That’s according to a recent report from Football Insider, who claims the Gunners’ hierarchy are willing to spend as much as £50 million on one player as they look to give their manager the funds required to continue the side’s title challenge.
Currently sitting just one point off defending champions Manchester City, Arsenal’s season is shaping up to be another good one.
However, success in the form of what would be their first Championship since 2004 will depend on whether or not the North London giants can keep up with Pep Guardiola’s relentless Cityzens.
And in order to help the club do that, a new marquee midfielder is thought to be Arteta’s priority.
Thomas Partey has struggled to get a consistent run of games under his belt this term with summer Kai Havertz also flattering to deceive. Consequently, a central midfielder, one that is perhaps a little more defensively minded, is likely to be the target.
Aston Villa’s Douglas Luiz and Real Sociedad’s Martin Zubimendi have both been heavily linked with moves to the Emirates.
Frankly speaking, and with all due respect, Arteta will destroy Arsenal. He is riding on the platform the club laid before his coming , to ride to the top ,but want to destroy it with his own type of game that never suit England: he refused the coming of Partey but the club prevailed and he came in. Since then he hardly win any game without Partey in the defensive midfield. Now that we have gotten Rice, what is wrong in rotating them as Guardiola is doing? Sometimes you can even start both. Arteta lacks a good rotational policy. He picks his eleven and dump others into Carabao Cup. That is why we lack good bench – coupled with the fact he lacks the ability to discover good players. The ones he forced the club to buy for him, like Havertz, Kiwior and others, have not been fantastic, yet good ones like Partey and Smith Rowe, he want to force them out by sometimes imposing fictitious injuries on them. If any of our key player is injured towards the end of season, as was the case of Saliba last season, out title fight abruptly becomes over. We only need to sign Ousmane Diomande in this January and either keep or sell Harvetz. Every other player must stay till Summer. That is the only way to win the league.
thomas and emile spends more time on rehab center than on the pitch. stop talking crap
I agree that Arteta is trying to replicate Guadiola’s playbook verbatim. He needs to apply all tactics and strategies to top the EPL. He should borrow from other ex-Arsenal players now coaches who believe a little borrowing from all the top coaches will serve better purposes for young managers. Arteta should stop copying wholesome Pep. When Arsenal is playing Pep or any team, he should use all tactics.
Secondly, Arteta should not be stubborn or get arrogant. His new GK has not measured up to be above Ramsdale, and Partey is very important to this team. He should find a way to use Rice and Partey in the middle.
Shut up, you are not Arsenal supporter you support Spurs so go away please, We finished second last season and the club that spent Billions narrowly escaped relegation muppet..
Rotate who and who? When was the last time you watched football sir?
lol
“he refused the coming of Partey” – like wtf? Partey wouldn’t be at the club, if Arteta didn’t want him. Also Partey is not the Messiah.
Sometimes I think some people just want to see players from their part of the world play. It’s not about playing the best players to those people apparently.
Besides Partey would play a lot more if he wasn’t injured all the time. Same with Smith-Rowe.
There’s a fixation on Partey and Smith-Rowe that makes no sense. It is not for the lack of talent or industry. They are perpetually on the treatment table. That’s the problem. The manager can only select people declared fit to play by the medical team. People want Havertz to score goals yet that’s not what Arteta deploys him yo do. Even the most prolific season last season for Xhaka did produce the kind of goals we’re asking for from Havertz. In my opinion, Arteta needs a fit and prolific striker and long-term success to Partey and Jorginho.
Move Zinchenko into the middle… he’s not a left back. Spend on a striker
Yes thank you
Agreed with u
Ure a genuis!
Arteta has made mistakes this season and Havertz certainly is a 65 million mistake,one goal (a penalty) and no assists so far,two glorious chances from inside the six yard box wasted in his last two games alone.
Mikel you have made so many great decisions you are entitled to a bad one but man 65 million ahhhhhh !!!
We can only win the league if you play players who are performing it will be hard to drop your expensive flop but we won’t win anything if you stubbornly send out a team with only ten men performing each week.
Hands up who prefers Partey,Rice,Odegarde in midfield and Havertz on the bench or the transfer list ?????
I love Partey and Smith-Rowe but they’re too injury prone. Sell them, along with Tavares, Lakonga, Eddie & Havertz. Bring back Tierney move Zini to midfield buy Luiz & Toney
Appreciate what arteta is doing the gap between us and city have reduce in one or two windows we will surpass city
Excactly too many winging fake Arsenal fans. Arteta has my full support.
Arteta should have listening ears and respect others views as no one is an island of knowledge please.
Talking about Kai Harvard, yes he is even a more flop than Pepper who has been sold. So let him be moved on come January pls. Aaron Ramsdle on his good day performs wonder but, Arteta should be exchanging them. Only by so doing shall be competitions plus.
Emile S. Rowe in my opinion should not be sold. Remember all such players sold always come back to hunt us eg Willock, Theo Walcott, Emmanuel Adebayo to mention but a few.
T. Party should not be sold, instead, sell Eddie and bring in a real No.9 like Vlahovic, Toney, Ollie Watkin etc.
In my opinion, with all the injuries, Mikel Arteta has done a wonderful job staying just a point from Pep’s Man City.
Please let’s all support Mikel Arteta. He’s quietly solving the teams problems . I do remember that it took the great Thierry Henry about 12 games to start scoring at Arsenal.
Arteta is not stubborn. He is just a hardcore modern tactician who is not afraid to experiment.
Arsenal was a shambolic team before Arteta came. Please, let’s appreciate what this man is doing at Arsenal. In Arteta we trust. Up GUNNERS……………………! Smith and Partey are very good players for us if not for the injuries that they do experience. For Harvertz, I believe he will be good with time. All we need from him is patient and time as he has started to show some confidence in the last few matches he played
Arteta is a very young and intelligent coach,at his age and being a rookie,very senior coaches respect him already.Some even fear playing our Arsenal now.This Partey and Smith Rowe nonsense should stop!.The two are very good mid-fielders agreed,but where are they when the team need them.On treatment after injury injury injury.We need to replace Partey with a more consistent and injury free defensive midfielder.Same to a more reliable attacking midfielder to back up for our Captain.Where I disagree with him is on Ramsdale. David Raya is a mid table goalkeeper to say the list.His mistakes in goal are very pedestrian and may cost us bigtime more than it already has.Let him just bring back Ramsdale please. Ramsdale should also help matters by keeping his father out of his moments of lapses that played part to his being sidelined