A quiet June has become a busy July for Arsenal, who has already completed the signing of three new players and has now submitted four signatures
The summer of Arsenal has perhaps stagnated for a while, but it is now in acceleration.
Since the beginning of July, the Gunners have completed transfers for Kepa Arrrizabalaga, Martin Zubimendi and Christian Norgaard, and there are now three newcomers on the road while Mikel Arteta is his team for the new season.
And after June, the good news of new contracts for Gabriel and Myles Lewis-Skelly brought, progress has now been made on a new deal that will surprise Gunners fans.
So first, those on everyone's lips. Viktor Gyokeres now finally comes after a £ 63.6 million from Sporting Lisbon after the new sports director of the Gunners Andrea Berta concluded a deal with both the club and the former agent of Coventry City.
Complications had arisen because of the agent's reimbursements and the determination of Sporting to manage a hard bargain, but the Gunners now have faith to close their deal for the Swedes who scored 97 goals in 102 games in Lisbon.
Then Noni Madueke comes, certainly not a popular addition to the Gunners in the eyes of some, but a player who is Mikel Arteta determined to add to his team since the beginning of the summer.
That was Madueke's desire to become a member of the Gunners that he was willing to walk to Chelsea for the final of the club World Cup, and it is now expected in North Londs to undergo his medical and to become the sixth player who signed Arteta from Chelsea during his supervisor.
Subsequently, Crithian Mosquera, the 21-year-old Center-Back from Valencia, who, according to the Athletic, agreed with the Gunners.
Mosquera is another player who has been on the radar of the Gunners since the beginning of the summer, and Arsenal would undoubtedly have liked to have completed the transfer earlier to only prevent complications about the final reimbursement.
Mosquera is seen as cover for the first cord in the middle of Gabriel and William Saliba, but last season he played one after all 38 La Liga matches of Valencia and will therefore certainly look at his honest time on the field.
Last but not least it is not a new signature that Arsenal is approaching when completing, but instead it is a new deal for the talented teenager Ethan Nwaneri after his breakthrough term last season.
There had been concern that Nwaneri would like to leave the Gunners to look for more playing time elsewhere, whereby clubs in Germany kept an eye on him, but progress has been made and it is now hoped that a definitive agreement can be concluded this week.