Arsenal have reported a half-yearly turnover of about £148.5 million and despite bringing down an influx of players in Danny Welbeck, Alexis Sanchez and the likes, the Gunners reportedly have cash reserves amounting to 138.8 million. They have also paid off their Emirates Stadium debt and that leaves Arsene Wenger with a £50 million summer warchest.
Though it is hard to believe that a club like Arsenal will only have a warchest equal to what Chelsea paid for Fernando Torres, it looks more than enough when the quality of footballers at Emirates Stadium is taken into consideration.
Though Francis Coquelin has succeeded in making Arsenal supporters forget the defensive midfielder crisis, Arsene Wenger is determined to bring down a world-class defensive midfielder to operate in the middle of the park.
Morgan Schneiderlin is a long-term target while Arsene Wenger is also believed to be keeping tabs on Lars Bender and William Carvalho to bring what Patrick Vieira offered, to his current roster.
Even though David Ospina sometimes looks like an upgrade to Wojciech Szczesny, the Colombian sometimes emulates Manuel Almunia, who had a burning reputation of going bananas inside the penalty area quite often. That has prompted rumours stating that the French manager may well bring down someone, who belongs to the same league as Thibaut Courtois or David de Gea.
Per Mertesacker is earning more criticisms than plaudits lately and is also being subjected to senescence and his partner, Laurent Koscielny has perpetual injury concerns. The former Monaco manager may, thus, be forced to buy a defender with Fabian Schar being looked at among others.
Arsenal already have their striking options covered with Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud, Alexis Sanchez and Danny Welbeck imposing an intimidating strikeforce, but they are widely rumoured to be chasing Alexandre Lacazette and the likes to further bolster their crowded strikeforce.
The Emirates Stadium club also boast four top-class fullbacks – Nacho Monreal, Mathieu Debuchy, Kieran Gibbs and Hector Bellerin, besides awaiting the return of Carl Jenkinson, who has polished his football to a sublime level under Sam Allardyce.
Given the nature and calibre of the footballers that Arsene Wenger has at different positions, he may have already prioritized the transfer of a world-class defensive midfielder and may also consider bringing down a defender and a striker, if he is to let Lukas Podolski and one of Yaya Sanogo and Joel Campbell go.
