With the incoming transfer window now closed in England, let’s look at what Arsenal have done.
I think it’s safe to say that the entire summer transfer window was ‘unexpected’.
When Josh Kroenke said we should ‘be excited’ we declined and carried on moaning only for the club to deliver Nicolas Pepe for £72m.
The maths involved to spread £40m around and come back with six top players is quite impressive and it hits home once again how the only decent thing Ivan Gazidis did was to hire Raul Sanllehi and then sod off.
So, having said all that, let’s look in our goodie bag…
It should be noted that, in terms of sales, the transfer window in Germany, France and Spain don’t close until 2 September. It closes in Italy on 23 August.
Signed
- Kieran Tierney – £25m
- David Luiz – £8m
- Gabriel Martinelli – £6m
- Dani Ceballos – £15m (loan)
- William Saliba – £25m
- Nicolas Pepe – £72m
- James Hillson – Free
- Catalin Cirjan – Free
Sold/released
- David Ospina – £3.1m
- Xavier Amaechi – £2.25m
- Takuma Asano – £1m
- Julio Pleguezuelo – free
- Charlie Gilmour – free
- Bayli Spencer-Adams – free
- Vontae Daley-Campbell – free
- Cohen Bramall – free
- Stephan Lichtsteiner – free
- Danny Welbeck – free
- Aaron Ramsey – free
- Petr Cech – retired
- Dominic Thompson – £3m
- Carl Jenkinson – £2m
- Krystian Bielik – £7.38m
- Laurent Koscielny – £4.8m
- Takuma Asano – £900k
- Alex Iwobi – £35m – £40m
Loaned
- Ben Sheaf – Doncaster
- Daniel Ballard – Swindon Town
- Jordi Osei-Tutu – VfL Bochum
- Dejan Iliev – SKF Sered
- William Saliba – St Etienne
- Eddie Nketiah – Leeds United
Still for sale
For loan
It is likely we will see some others leave on loan as well before the window closes around Europe.