After 31 days of transfer speculation, rumour and conjecture, February has arrived and the transfer window has slammed shut – at least until the end of the season.
Last minute deals were sought, much needed replacements were brought in, while other protracted deals fell by the wayside and failed to materialise.
The total spending of Premier League clubs came in at £120 million, not a large amount in contrast to other windows, while there were certainly no £50 million splurges ala Chelsea and Fernando Torres on January transfer day 2011.
Overall it was a fairly ordinary window – particularly for Arsenal. Despite being linked with a handful of players throughout the January month, only one new signing arrived; Nacho Monreal of Malaga.
While Arsenal needed a new left-back with Kieran Gibbs out injured, it certainly wasn’t the marquee signing fans had hoped for.
What Arsenal needed the most was a world class goalscorer (or two), a midfield enforcer in the mould of Patrick Vieira, another winger and perhaps one more centre-back.
Neither of the above arrived, and with the Gunners seemingly incapable of beating the top sides in the league these days (they lost to City and Chelsea and drew with Liverpool last month, have been beaten by United) you can’t help but worry about Arsene Wenger’s men this season.
Whether or not they manage a top four place at this point in time remains to be seen.
Here we take look at the 5 players Arsene Wenger could (and perhaps should) have signed but didn’t.
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4 Comments
This is a disaster for Arsenal just one signing from an ailing club. The mystake made here will cost us for years to come.Fans its time to be heard and the only way you can do this that makes the gunners chiefs sit up and listen is to stay away, its sad to say but the disrespect shown in this club if it was shown in childrens league it would not be tolerated. The only language the heireachy knows at Arsenal is hit them in the pocket big time.
From a Long suffering for the last few years Arsenal fan from Ireland, who has supported Arsenal for close to 40 years Michael
arsenal has lost its ambition.wenger clearly said that top 4 is under threat.so he knows dat.& he is not willing to strngthen the squad,from good to arrogant manager(or making fool out of himself)he has turned himslf knwing dat der is no comptn for his positn.his policies havnt gone rit way.and 1 dnt want to b a prfsr to knw dat its tym to chang.a club will only achieve greatness wen it shows ambition.and i strongly belives dat its tym 4 d supporter 2 tak action.or i fear we will lose our club only 4 business:(
Arsene may regret not being able to sign another attacking player and CB/DM
Wenger has lost his mind we Arsenal play in a league where there is still tackling not Spain where little light waits can,t be tackled and Samba is the best in the game