Unai Emery Doubts Doubt on Signing a Loan at Arsenal in January | Soccer

Unai Emery said it would be difficult to sign a loan to Arsenal this month, although the official has suggested that the imminent departure of club recruiter Sven Mislintat will have no effect on their efforts at home. transfer market.

Emery said last week that Arsenal was only exploring loan deals – the club had spent a lot of money last summer – and that it was interested in Denis Suárez of Barcelona, ​​who would bring a new option on the wing. Emery has other goals, such as Sevilla midfielder, Ever Banega, while the club plans to schedule the departure of Aaron Ramsey to Juventus late in the season, on a free transfer.

Up to now, Mislintat and his team have struggled to convince potential sellers clubs to part with the players on loan, and Arsenal should apparently be giving badurances that they would make any deal permanent this summer. It is unclear whether they would be willing to do so with Suárez.

Emery seemed a little disappointed when asked for an update on progress and he seemed to suggest that it would be an incoming loan, at best. "This transfer window is not easy to take with players who can help us with better performance than we have now," Emery said. "The club works and I spoke with Sven, with Raúl [Sanllehí, the director of football] about the different possibilities with the players.

"They work but it's not easy to take players who can help us with great performances now. We are looking for, the club is working with the possibility to lend players and if we can take [somebody] to help us in a different position in the team, so maybe we can. "

Emery's lips were tight about Suárez. "These are conversations between us, privately," he said. "I do not want to tell you this private conversation with the club."

Emery also left nothing to the future of Mislintat, adopting his alleged ignorance now prevalent on important issues, but he maintained that things were still going as planned with his colleague. Mislintat, who became frustrated very quickly – he joined Borussia Dortmund in November 2017 – will continue to give everything until his departure.

"I was working with him for the past two weeks," Emery said. "We had two or three meetings together and we are working normally. I do not know another problem for him. Share it? I do not know. When I spoke with him, everything was normal. My relationship with him for transfers in the last two or three weeks – we talk about it. Today, for me, normality works with him. "

Arsenal will be entertaining Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday as part of a decisive game in its battle for the Champions League. They have six points ahead of their rivals in fourth and after three losses in their last six Premier League matches, they can not afford another defeat.

Emery, who called the Chelsea game a "small final", said Mesut Özil was fit and available for selection after a knee injury, but that was also the case in West Ham last Saturday. when Arsenal had lost 1-0, and he left it out of the team entirely. Özil has not played since the 1-1 draw at Brighton on Boxing Day and he faces an uncertain future under Emery.

"I do not think about that," said Emery, when asked if Özil could leave the club this month. "I'm thinking of how he can help us this year with good performance. He had injuries and was not able to play. But after these two weeks, it may be for Saturday. He trains regularly with his work over the past two weeks and I think he can be [available].

"I want consistency. He has had some injuries and these injuries mean that sometimes he is well and sometimes not. I want every player to give the same job every day to be able to play every game. With Mesut, it's the same.