Ian Wright points the finger of blame as Arsenal transfer issue laid bare

Arsenal's gully with Aston Villa near them six points adrift of Premier League leaders Liverpool, but there's inactive clip to adhd caller players to their squad successful January

Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright called connected the club's committee to backmost Mikel Arteta successful the transportation marketplace successful January.

Arteta's squad dropped much points connected Saturday, throwing distant a 2-0 pb to gully astatine location to Aston Villa. With Liverpool claiming a precocious triumph astatine Brentford earlier the aforesaid day, Arsenal are six points adrift of the league leaders having played a crippled more.

The London broadside spent the champion portion of £100million implicit the summer, though £27m of that went towards making David Raya's indebtedness determination permanent. Riccardo Calafiori and Mikel Merino were the lone different elder addiitons to articulation for a fee, and a bid of injuries person near the Gunners' rubric hopes hanging by a thread.

Bukayo Saka has begun a lengthy spell connected the sidelines aft hamstring surgery, portion defenders Ben White and Takehiro Tomiyasu person missed overmuch of the campaign. With little than 2 weeks of the January transportation model remaining, the higher-ups request to determine whether oregon not to springiness Arteta the resources to adhd to his ranks.

"Unfortunately for maine again, I’ll accidental I deliberation the manager needs a batch of assistance from the committee now," Wright told Premier League Productions. "I don’t deliberation helium tin bash precise overmuch much with what he’s got, different there’s nary mode you’ll proceed to usage Thomas Partey astatine right-back if you’ve got options, and helium needs options, attacking and defending.

"We are precise adjacent to it being successful information of it fizzling out. In the adjacent mates of games if it doesn’t happen, if they don’t bring idiosyncratic successful to springiness them a boost due to the fact that you could spot they looked a spot tired. I deliberation mentally and physically they look precise tired, it’s thing I can’t emphasise capable however overmuch we request assistance now, we request players."

When asked if Arsenal tin drawback Liverpool, helium added: "If we’ve got immoderate accidental of wanting to beryllium successful this contention thing has got to hap successful these past mates of weeks of this transportation model due to the fact that with the players he’s got astatine this infinitesimal and the injuries he’s got, it can’t happen, not with the mode Liverpool are playing, not with the mode they’re going astir their business."

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Arsenal brag Arteta was pleased with his depleted team's show against Villa, adjacent if they couldn't clasp connected for victory. Midfielders Thomas Partey and Myles Lewis Skelly started astatine full-back, with 3 untested academy players connected the bench.

"We were unbelievable," Arteta told BBC Sport. "So arrogant of the mode we played, however dominant, however fluid we were and however overmuch we enactment into it.

"We played 3 games successful six days. So arrogant of them, but astatine the aforesaid clip truthful disappointed. We merit more. We didn't get it, and we are bittersweet due to the fact that of that."

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