Leaved the club: Cesc Fabregas, Gael Clichy, Emmanuel Eboue, Samir Nasri, Armand Traore, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and Gilles Sunu.
New players: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Carl Jenkinson, Gervinho, Joel Campbell, Andre Santos, Chu-Young Park, Per Mertesacker, Yossi Benayoun (loan for Chelsea) and Mikel Arteta.
On loan from Arsenal: Henri Landsbury(West Ham), Joel Campbell (Deportivo Saprissa), Carlos Vela(Real Sociedad), Denilson(Sao Paulo), Niklas Bendtner(Sunderland), Kyle Bartley (Rangers), Pedro Bothelo (Rayo Vallecano)
The tranfer window has been a tough task for Arsene Wenger and his crew, plenty of rumors of the star players Fabregas, Clichy and Nasri leaving the club tourns out in reality. The squad and fans tries desperate to convinve Wenger that it is time to buy reinforcments, established players and not youngsters. After a lousy start of the Premier League Arsene Wenger finally realized that he needed new signings in a few days.
In the start of the tranfer window Gervinho was the only reinforcment that was established as a good player. The other reinfocments was the youngsters Jenkinson, Chamberlain and Campbell. Talents, but not players who would lifted the club in this season, but in the last days of the window Wenger took action.
The last days Wenger brought Mertesacker and Santos into the squad in defence, Artieta and Benayoun in midtfield and Park Chu-Young in attack. The signings made that arsenal fans again had hope for the comming season, after beeing negative to the season just a few days before the tranfer window closed.
Short facts about the great new players that joined the club the last few days:
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Per Mertesacker is a major
reinforcment for Arsenal |
Per Mertesacker - the defender has significant experience with 226 apperances for the club and played 53 times for German. The 26 year old player has played in the European champions final at 2008. In 2006 and 2010 he played in semi finals in the World Cup.
Mikel Arteta - has signed a four year deal with the gunners, bringing a lot of Premier League experience to the club beacuse he has played for Evrton since 2005. The defensive midtfielder is 29 years old.
Yossi Benayoun - will join Arsenal on a season long loan from Chelsea. The midtfielder has wealth of Premier League experience from Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham.
Chu-Young Park - joined Arsenal from Monaco where he scored 25 goals in 91 matches. The south korean captain is only 26 year old and is a well known striker.
Andre Santos - joined Arsenal from Fenerbache in Türkey, he reached over 50 matches for the team and scored 10 times. He has abbility to both defend and attack, for 2 years ago he played his firsth match for the Brazilian national team.