This morning it was announced that Arsenal have tied up a new shirt sponsorship with the Emirates airlines, the deal is worth £150million. With this deal the airlines retain the naming rights to the Ashburton Grove stadium until 2028, as well as having their name featured on the shirts until 2019.

What does this mean?

Well to start off with the £150million goes a long way to providing resources that can give us the opportunity to push for a couple of big names in the positions we still need to fill.

The money can also be used to help give the club a financial standing when regards to player contract’s, it makes you wonder if had this deal happened over the last December whether we would’ve had the money to keep RvP?

New Transfer Warchest

So given this new financial backing, this epitomises the club being a model of modern football financially, where can the club put the money?

A lot of names would spring to mind but the important thing is that we put our resources to good use.

For example, as well as Gibbs has been playing he still has his injury prone. So for that position I think a good shout would be either Coentrao from Real or Balzaretti from Roma.

Another position that needs more back up is our midfield, this money could go some way to strengthening that department with players like Holtby being linked to the club.

On a defensive midfield front there is still a need for a more out and out player to fill that position, the likes of M’Vila had been linked but maybe looking to the Bundesliga would be a good idea, Lars or Sven Bender are impressive and in great form.

This leaves us with money to go for a good plan B striker or starting striker, the likes of Falcao, Cavani and Huntelaar are names that have been sprayed about but Huntelaar would be the best value for money, he would be an outstanding purchase for the club and the competition would push Giroud to continue his improvement.

Getting some players can really give us a boost as we go into the second half of the season looking to better ourselves and get into the Champions league again. Then build on it for the future.

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