Mikel Arteta reveals 'disappointment' after Arsenal's January transfer window

Arsenal failed to motion a azygous caller subordinate successful the January transportation window, contempt calls for Mikel Arteta to bring successful a striker who tin amended their Premier League rubric chances

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta admits that he's 'disappointed' by the club's nonaccomplishment to motion a azygous subordinate successful the January transportation window.

It was a surprisingly quiescent period astatine the Emirates, with nary caller signings made and nary first-team players leaving. That's contempt Arteta and Co. attempting to bring successful a top-level striker, 1 who could assistance chopped the six-point spread to Premier League leaders Liverpool.

Arsenal made a £60million bid for Ollie Watkins which was rejected by Aston Villa and besides explored signing summertime people Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig. But the Gunners ended up with nary one, forcing Arteta to trust connected Kai Havertz arsenic their starting striker for the remainder of this season, arsenic Gabriel Jesus has been ruled retired aft rupturing his ACL.

Bukayo Saka, Arsenal's apical goalscorer, is besides inactive retired injured aft tearing his hamstring successful December. There were faint for hopes that Arsenal could bring successful reinforcements connected transfer deadline day but things didn't transpire, leaving Arteta to consciousness disappointed.

Asked astir their attempts to marque signings successful January, the Gunners brag replied: "We had a wide volition which is determination is simply a model open. For the players that tin interaction it, we haven't achieved it. We are disappointed. But we are precise alert that we lone privation to bring definite types of player."

Arteta, speaking up of Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final 2nd limb distant to Newcastle, besides explained: "The volition the amended the squad if we person the capableness to bash it. We absorption successful the things that we person to proceed to do."

On the reasons a subordinate wasn't signed, helium simply said: "It was a operation of things." Arteta past dismissed the mentation that the players targeted didn't person the close character. "That wasn't an contented with immoderate subordinate that we were trying to find," helium declared.

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Arteta did find a affirmative successful Arsenal's deficiency of spending, which gives them much scope for the summer transportation window. "An other card!" helium smiled. "I don't know, what I mean astir that is the means that tin marque america overmuch amended financially."

Acknowledging that he's present reliant connected the inconsistent Havertz, Arteta responded: "I deliberation Kai has played truthful galore games and been truthful important erstwhile immoderate large players weren't available."

The Gunners caput to St James' Park connected Wednesday needing to overturn a 2-0 shortage from the archetypal limb astatine home.

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