The Gunners broke their transfer record to purchase Nicolas Pepe from Lille for £72m this summer, as well as acquiring David Luiz, William Saliba, Kieran Tierney and Gabriel Martinelli for a combined £67m. Only Manchester United and Aston Villa spent more on new signings ahead of the 2019/20 campaign than Unai Emery’s side. That has left Arsenal short of cash, and although Venkatesham has not completely ruled out incomings when the transfer window reopens, he does not expect the club to be active. “We’ve just been through the transfer period in the summer, that’s what we always call the main transfer window,” he told Bloomberg. “And we were very aggressive in that transfer...
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