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It is unlikely that Raul Sanllehi will experience much calm and tranquility when the Arsenal transfer deadline arrives.
The Gunners football manager and the rest of his recruiting team are working with an arm tied behind their backs this month, as they do their best to improve Unai Emery's first squad team without spending a lot of money. penny.
To his credit, Sanllehi has already strengthened the club Arsenal with the addition of Denis Suarez to an initial loan from Barcelona, but this may not be enough to ensure the arrival in the top four or the victory in the Europa League they need to return to the Champions League.
Emery has clearly expressed his desire to add wings to the Arsenal team. Suarez will be at the top of Sanllehi's to-do list.
Be decisive
Yannick Carrasco's agent has expressed it well when he talks about his client's interests at Arsenal.
Christophe Henrotay said: "Anything is possible but it seems difficult to do because it would be a decisive and quick move of interested clubs involved to discuss and deal with the current club of Carrasco."
Arsenals are generally not badociated with a "decisive and quick move" in the transfer market. Too often, they identify a player, prevaricate for several weeks, do not respond to requests from the seller club and the agreement fails or they are obliged to pay anyway.
Although their loan application for Suarez was complicated, and Arsenal quite logically refused to travel to Barcelona to obtain a permanent transfer commitment this summer, it was also a familiar experience to see the affair hit. many obstacles and speeds on the road.
Similarly, Arsenal was offered to Carrasco earlier in the month but was not totally convinced. We do not have time to debate now, Sanllehi simply can not wait any longer.
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End the prosecution of Perisic
Arsenal may have doubts about Carrasco, but there should be no similar indecision on Ivan Perisic. The winger of Inter Milan is undoubtedly a supreme talent and could have a major impact on the Unai Emery team.
That's not to say that Arsenal should sign it, though.
Their payroll is already packed with players in the early or late thirties whose resale value is much lower than the club has invested, including Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Henrikh Mkhitary and Mesut Ozil. Perisic, who turns 30 on Saturday, would do nothing to solve this problem.
Rather than being a cornerstone of the future, it would help Arsenal win now, but at a cost.
The integration of Perisic would certainly block the path of his left partner, Lex Iwobi and perhaps even Reiss Nelson, when he returns from his loan period in Hoffenheim next season. All this and in about two years, Arsenal would have another player whose record years are behind him.
Reduce payroll
An easier task in the summer, when large incomes such as Petr Cech, Aaron Ramsey and Danny Welbeck leave the club, but the Gunners would still like to receive a salary relief over the next few days.
Arsenal goes against the limits of what financial fair play will allow them to do, which will affect their ability to offer new contracts to current players before the end of the season.
Arsenal would welcome any approach to Mohamed Elneny, although leading riders, Leicester, appear to have withdrawn from Yuri Tielemans' signature run and that Roma still have to support their interests.
Hector Bellerin's injury potentially gave Carl Jenkinson a second chance at Arsenal, but, with Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Stephan Lichtsteiner at Emery's disposal, any interest in the right-back would likely be seriously taken into consideration. account.
Maintain flexibility for a restless summer
Although the financial realities forced them to enter into loan agreements, Arsenal has always been wise in its approach to transfers, although this has sometimes slowed the progress of the negotiations.
However, Arsenal makes sure that, whatever happens this month, his hands do not bond for future windows. A year ago, the signatures of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, badociated with the £ 350,000 weekly contract awarded to Mesut Ozil, bequeathed to Emery and the new management structure with an excessive salary budget, forcing them to make difficult decisions against Aaron Ramsey 's third party.
By negotiating call options rather than commitments, Suarez and Carrasco Arsenal ensure that they have the greatest possible flexibility for a summer in which gunners' opportunities are defined based on the achievement of the Champions League. .
If this is the case, they might feel able to get a better clbad of recruits than Suarez, especially with a transfer budget that would increase considerably by around £ 50 million, which should be the case. if the club found itself once again in the doldrums of the Europa League. .
Sanllehi must do everything in his power to guarantee Emery a team able to return to the competition of leading clubs in Europe, but in doing so, he must avoid mortgaging the future in exchange for a promise of short term success.
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