Mikel Arteta has stated that Arsenal is ready for a 'big' summer of editions that since 2004 brings them to the 'next step' of a first Premier League crown.
The daring explanation comes with the Gunners, except from the current title race and in line to end a third consecutive season as a League runners-up.
They can reduce the gap to leaders Liverpool to nine points when they organize Fulham tonight – and are stimulated by the return to Fitness of Star Wing Bukayo Saka.
Arsenal has long been associated with selection frameworks Alexander Isak and Benjamin Sesko, but it is now said that they have raised their interest in the Viktor Gyokeres from Lisbon.
This season, 26-year-old Swede scored 42 goals in 42 games. Arteta said: 'The way we had planned the five first summers (since I took the lead), they would become very large and they would have different objectives because the reversal of players and the purpose of those windows was different.
'Now we want to increase the depth of the team, but we also want to increase the quality and skills we need to go to the next step. It will be a big one and we are very enthusiastic about it. '
Arteta's Bullish prediction is a reminder of the construction of the summer of 2023, when the Gunners split £ 105 million on Declan Rice, £ 65 million on Kai Havertz and £ 38.5 million on Jurrien Timber.
On Monday, Arteta's first press conference marked since the appointment of sports director Andrea Berta. The 53-year-old ex-Atletico Madrid Transfer Guru has replaced Edu, of which Mail Sport revealed that in November had left Arsenal to play a multi-clubrol under Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Nottingham Forest.
At the arrival of Berta, Arteta said: 'I am confident how he will improve everyone. Because of the way he is, because of the personality he has, the way he talks and how passionate he is. And that's what we need. New blood with people who are ambitious. '
In the meantime, Arsenal and Spurs will play each other in a pre-season friendly in Hong Kong-the first time that a derby in North London has been held outside the UK. The competition of July 31 is part of the Hong Kong Football Festival.
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