Arsenal had a January to forget, in which Mikel Arteta did not see any new faces coming.
The Deadline Day was expected to stand still and so it proved with the Gunners who were unable to negotiate newcomers. Arsenal is in a good position, as proven by their 5-1 success about Manchester City, but holes still exist in their team.
The priority in the January transfer window was an attacker, but despite the fact that Arteta it was publicly admitted that the club wanted to find out, they will fail and the North Londers will continue to trophies without a doubt.
The injury of Gabriel Jesus at the beginning of the month will exclude him for the rest of the season, but even though they are linked to Alexander Isak, there has been no movement for signing sessions and Arteta will not do with what he started the season with .
A late approach was made to land Aston Villa star Ollie Watkins with an offer of around £ 60 million. However, the Midlands Club chose to hold the English international, but instead let Jhon Duran leave for Saudi Arabia.
Arsenal will probably continue with Kai Havertz as the central point of attack, because he is assisted by people like Leandro Trossard, Gabriel Martinelli and, when he returns, Bukayo Saka. Summer signing Raheem Sterling has not yet had the desired effect.
Arteta made it clear on Sunday that his focus was not on transfers, but instead on turning their Carabao Cup semi -final this week. He said: “My focus is that we have the best preparation we can have on Wednesday and that was the only thing I was interested in.”
In terms of outputs, Arteta only punished departure for those who were in the pecking order and struggled for a few minutes. Forward Marquinhos has not been able to cut it with the Gunners and, despite their injuries in the last third part, he is still allowed to leave on loan and will play the season in Brazil with Cruzeiro
The most important departure of the window was the permanent output of Ayden Heaven when he went to Rivalen Manchester United. Time will learn whether the teenager is a big hit, but those at Old Trafford pushed hard to land the player. Young defender Josh Robinson was the third player to leave the Emirates this month, he went to League One Side Wigan.
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