‘We haven’t achieved’ – Mikel Arteta responds to Arsenal’s inactivity window to transfer
Mikel Arteta admitted that he felt “disappointed” because of the lack of arsenal transfer job during now closed January.
Gunners did not make new signatures, despite entering the window in the middle of the season with an open consideration of different opportunities in various parts of the field.
Arsenal He had a lot of reconnaissance to the central back Vitor Reis and met with midfielder Sverra Nypan. But Reis finished joining Manchester City, while Nypan has delayed his decision by summer.
Later, foreign north London turned attention to the attacker, seeing the offer for Ollie Watkins refused and did not seriously persecute any other attacking goals except Short interest in mathys tel.
“We had a clear intention that is always an open window to explore the possibilities to improve our team with players who can influence it,” Arteet explained to reporters on Tuesday.
“We have not achieved it so that we are disappointed in this regard, but we are also aware that we just want to introduce certain types of players and we have to be very disciplined is the team, and I think we were.”
It has been announced that the lack of Reis, after a most likely club that signs a Brazilian was considered in the fall, collapsed on an internal discussion of how best to use available resources. In the light of Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus, who were injured, it is said that Artete questioned whether the consumption of close to £ 30m would improve the short -term composition.
The decision was made to go after Watkins, Initially putting an offer of £ 40 million pounds Aston Vili It lacked the requested price for the English international. Any willingness of the Watkins’ sale is then completely withdrawn after being paid to Jhon Duran, who instead moved to Al Nasr.