Gunner be close! Record £70million Arsenal spending spree hanging in the balance
Gunner be close! Record £70million Arsenal spending spree hanging in the balance
Wenger is planning his busiest summer ever but fears targets
such as Jovetic will refuse to join a club that's not in the Champions
League
Fantastic four: Wenger's desperate to finish in the Champions League places
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Arsene Wenger fears it will be Champions League or bust for Arsenal’s top transfer targets.
Gunners boss Wenger is planning the biggest and most ambitious spending spree of his 17 years in north London this summer.
He has a £70million war-chest and is under pressure from fans and the Arsenal hierarchy to actually use
the kitty - available because of the club's new sponsorship deal with
Emirates and the huge Premier League TV contract that comes into effect
next season.
Wenger is confident he'll be able to land Fiorentina striker Stevan Jovetic - providing the Gunners finish in the top four and qualify for next season's Champions League.
We revealed last month that Montenegro international Jovetic is their No1 target and is being watched on a weekly basis with enquiries ongoing.
But the pressure to remain a Champions League club has never
been greater, because the players Wenger wants to bring in are all
established names.
Besides Jovetic, Arsenal also want a
goalkeeper, a midfielder and potentially a right-back to replace Bacary
Sagna if, as expected, he leaves this summer - to that end, Feyenoord’s Daryl Janmaat has been watched. Dutch master: Holland international Janmaat could replace Sagna
Claudio Villa
The long list of goalkeepers under consideration
includes Barcelona’s Victor Valdes, Asmir Begovic of Stoke and
Hamburg’s Rene Adler, but, again, landing them may depend on Champions
League football.
They Gunners have also been after Toulouse midfielder Etienne Capoue. Nice and kneesy: Will Capoue be in Arsenal's midfield next season?
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Wenger privately acknowledges there are weaknesses in a squad that is set for a major face-lift after this season’s failings. --------------- Mirror Football
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