Arsenal’s transfer chase of Moises Caicedo in January which followed the attempts to secure Mykhailo Mudryk brought the club into a world of the transfer market they’d only ever entered once before. The record deal for Nicolas Pepe has been looked back on as a failure by the previous recruitment regime with Raul Sanllehi leading the group at that time.
With Edu stepping out of the Spaniard’s shadow to head up the transfer business with manager Mikel Arteta, now club co-chairman Josh Kroenke and the wider recruitment team, the club has built a side competently and smartly that sits five points clear. The most expensive player in the squad tackling a title challenge is Ben White who cost £50million from Brighton.
Not only that but the bid to win the league has been boosted by two deals for Leandro Trossard at £27million and Jorginho at £12million; both with guaranteed fees which add up to just ~£30million. The Brighton chief executive Steve Barber in an interview with The Beautiful Game podcast said jokingly that the £70million Arsenal bid would only get ‘half’ of the Ecuadorian.
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