News this week has, unsurprisingly, focused on Arsene Wenger signing a new deal and a report claimed that the club were looking for a way to ‘spin’ it for fans so it doesn’t cause a riot stuck in my head.

Judging by the first few papers I’ve read this morning, Arsenal have worked out how to do just that.

The Daily Mail, Daily Star, Telegraph, Express, and Mirror (and here) are all carrying similar stories about how the squad will get a complete overhaul this summer with a variety of players being sought.

From Marco Reus to Jack Butland, there are big names and small ones and it looks as if the club will try to use the transfer window to sweeten the news of Wenger’s new contract.

Of course, the window doesn’t open for another few months and the club need to make an announcement about Wenger’s future before that. They can’t leave it until the summer. By that point, fan sentiment will have festered further and it already stinks in some quarters.

The problem here is that the club simply must deliver on this.

Too many times have we been told that X or Y will happen (we will compete with Bayern Munich, for instance) only for those promises to disappear quicker than a Tottenham fan at a Premier League winners’ party.

Arsenal already needed to recruit a number of players regardless of any PR exercise. A new left-back is required for sure, as is another centreback unless Wenger is planning on using Holding more next season. In goal many would like Wojciech Szczesny to come back rather than a new keeper arrive, but it’s clear there will be changes in that position as well. Or, at least, there should be.

Alexis Sanchez is off and will need to be replaced with an equally big name, as will Mesut Ozil if he decides to go.

As I wrote earlier this week (and also put on audio), losing Ozil would say so much more about where we are as a club than losing Sanchez.

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