Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall has admitted that he would have liked to have done more transfer business this summer. The Gunners came second in last season's Women's Super League by one point and were hopeful of kickstarting their title challenge this season by being active in the transfer market.
However, most of the club's activity came in the outgoing department with Nikita Parris, Lisa Evans, Lydia Williams, Simone Boye, Viki Schnaderbeck and Tobin Heath all leaving permanently, while Anna Patten joined Aston Villa on loan. Arsenal were able to bring in goalkeeper Kaylan Mackerse and forward Lina Hurtig, while Brazilian youngster Gio Queiroz joined from Barcelona before being immediately sent out on loan to Everton, but Eidevall has revealed that he wanted to bring in at least one more player before the window came to a close.
"I am going to be very honest, ideally I would have liked one more player," the Swedish coach said in his pre-match press conference ahead of Arsenal's WSL curtain raiser against Brighton on Friday. "When you do transfers it is always like this, there are so many reasons why things can’t go through. Our preference was that if we couldn’t find the perfect fit in this window, we would rather wait and do it in the next window.
