Mikel Arteta is ready to break the Arsenal transfer budget in order to win a star attacker to direct his first League title challenge next season. The Arteta team has now spent five years without trophy when they approach the end of a frustrating campaign spoiled by injuries for Kai Havertz key attackers, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus. This trio, as well as the midfielder influential Martin Odegaard, have all missed substantial songs of the season when Arsenal failed to keep the pace of the Champions of the Premier League Liverpool before losing the semi-final of the Champions League against the Holyness of Paris.
A new striker is at the top of the Arteta’s wishes list with Havertz, who has not played for almost four months, still the top scorer of the League club with only nine goals.
Arsenal would have at least 100 million pounds sterling ($ 132 million) at their disposal for new players and were linked to Benjamin Sesko of RB Leipzig, wearing Viktor Gyokerres de Lisbon and Alexander Isak from Newcastle.
After failing to attract the English striker Ollie Watkins of Aston Villa during the January transfer window, Arteta is ready to do everything it takes to get a new striker in summer.
“The fact is that the budget is like when you have your wedding, you plan your marriage to your wife and you give her a budget and never less, and it’s always more,” Arteta told journalists on Friday.
“When you build a house, it’s always more. Normally, it happens. And you are preparing for different scenarios. Then, unhappy things happen. Sometimes we want a player and suddenly, we have an injury or this player is injured.
“There are so many variables that can occur but there is a budget. There is always an idea of what we can do, what we can improve, what will be the priorities and then see if we can do it.”
In the midst of speculation this week that Arta and the director of Arsenal Sporting, Andrea Berta, who replaced Edu in March, disagreed on the Great to continue, the manager insisted that their relationship is good.
“Well, if that happens, it means that we cannot explain ourselves enough, and we are not clear enough on what we want, and I guarantee that this has not happened,” he said.
“It did not happen in five and a half years with Edu, and I guarantee that it did not happen with Andrea.
“We have learned a lot and some of them (transfers) worked very well and others not. So we must make sure that we make the right calls.
“But we are all human beings and unfortunately, no one had a crystal ball here.
“But Andrea is someone who is very motivated, very clear in her ideas, in her vision and how we want to get there.”
Arsenal, secondly, which welcomes third place in Newcastle on Sunday, heads for the last two games of the season which requiring only two points to be assured of the qualification in the Champions League.
However, with their higher goals difference, a point should be sufficient for Arsenal to guarantee a finish among the first five.
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