Mikel Arteta: Arsenal manager reveals that the Premier League club has set transfer goals for January

Mikel Arteta repeated that Arsenal needs attackers in the January transfer window and confirmed that the gunners identified potential goals.

After the front cruciate ligament of Gabriel Jesus, who can exclude the Brazilian from the game for a year, Artete wants to strengthen his possibilities in the attack before closing the transfer window in 10 days.

Jesus’ absence means that Kai Havertz is the only recognized club striker, and Bukayo Saka will also pause until March due to the tearing of the popliteal tendon, which he suffered on December 21 in Crystal Palace.

Internal conversations in Arsenal are continued on the recruitment of the attacker. RB striker Leipzig Benjamin Sezko and captain Wolves Matheus Cunha are two names related to moving to the Emirates stadium.

Although Arteta was not willing to talk about the individual goals before the Saturday clash of his team from Wolves in the Premier League, the manager of the gunner revealed that work is underway to bring the attacker in January.

“My opinion is clear,” Arsenal said about the need to sign a contract with the attacker Sky sports news“Jamie Weir.

We lost two very important players in the form of Bukaayo Saki and Gabriel Jesus, so we lack goals, people and options in the attack.

“It is clear that in the period in which we lost them, in an ideal case we would need help, because we already lacked the composition, and now we are still short. The team was still dealing with it, but we must do what is good for the club.

“If we manage to get the right player, we are actively looking at it, but every player – no, we need someone who will make us better and have an impact on the team.

“We have very, very short results for many, many weeks, and they recognize the situation, we all. That is why we try to do what is good for the club, the team, this is our intention. “

Asked if Arsenal identified potential goals, Arteta replied: “Yes.”

Arteta consults Arsenal’s composition on transfers

Arteta also revealed that this month he consult with his own players on transfers after he admitted that his exhausted team needs “help”.

Declan Rice recently said that “he would not be surprised if we did something” in this window. Asked if the players told him that they needed more bodies, Arteta replied: “Not this way, but we were all there and we all look at each other.

Arteta, insisting on whether he talks to his current composition about acquiring new players, he added: “I always do it, especially if they know them, because it breaks us from the computer and what the data that is true say.” he said.

I saw it, I sense it. The player can score many goals, great. How does this player react when he has not scored for six or seven matches? I am interested in it.

“What goals do he score? Against what team, in what context? Is this the first half or the second half? Is it only with your right leg, only heads, only in the open? Do he like physical contact in this league?

“There are many things. So when you have a player who spent many days with him, this is really valuable information. “

In the face of Arteta’s injury, both William Saliba and Myles Lewis-Skelly, absent from the Wednesday victory of Arsenal in the Champions League against Dinamo Zagreb, have an external chance to play in Wolves. Arsenal loses six points in the Premier League to Liverpool after playing one more match.

“Margins (in the race for the title) are really, really small,” said Arteta. “You can see how things could go on last weekend, the turning point is minimal, and the difference suddenly looks completely different. We have to take care of it, it is still in our hands and a long, long, long way to go. “

Did Arteta change her mind?

Reporter Sky Sports News Jamie Weir from London Colney:

“There was so much noise around the Arsenal have to Contract the attacker – or at least the option of the attacker – this month to maintain weakening hopes for winning the title.

“To this day, Mikel Arteta seemed to suggest that although he would like to do it, he did not think that it was an absolute necessity.

“This changed this morning, because the extremely impetuous artea openly admitted that yes need signing a contract with the attacker this month, taking into account the loss of both Buchayo Saki and Gabriel Jesus.

“Another interesting attention that appeared at his today’s press conference was that the players themselves believe that the composition requires strengthening and that Arteta consult with players on potential transfers.

“He says that their contribution regarding the personality and nature of the players they can win is” priceless “.”