Leroy Sane is once again being linked with a £54million move to Arsenal. Mikel Arteta has already signed five new players this summer, but the Gunners' business does not look like ending there.
Marquinhos, Fabio Vieira, Matt Turner, Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko have already joined the club for a combined £117million, but Edu hinted that more business was still to be done. In an interview he said: "We have a plan for every single player in the squad, and that’s why I said there’s still a lot to do in this transfer window because we have to balance the squad in the best way possible.
"There’s still a lot to do, we are in the middle of the transfer window and things can happen. What we have to be is really focused and be prepared for every single situation, opportunities maybe can happen, clubs can sometimes come to us to see if there is a possibility to get players on loan or buy players. We just have to be prepared and I think we are very much prepared for almost everything."
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In bringing in Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, Arteta has two players he worked with during his time as Pep Guardiola's assistant at Manchester City. And Sane would make it three.
Arsenal have been linked with a move for Sane in the past, having not quite lit up the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich in the way he would have hoped following a move from the Etihad Stadium in July 2020. He has scored 24 goals in just 89 appearances for the German giants.
Bayern are reportedly not looking to sell, but Arsenal are in the market for attacking reinforcements, with links to Cody Gakpo from PSV and Lucas Paqueta from Lyon. And if Sane's previous comments are anything to go by, he would relish linking up with Arteta again.
Speaking to the Independent in 2020, he said: "I can just say positive things about Mikel Arteta. Since we started working together, he helped me a lot on the pitch. He tried to improve my football, he told me what I did good and what I did wrong, and he tried to work on it.
"Next to Pep, they both really helped me and improved me, to bring me to the next level. Even now, at Arsenal, for me you can see he’s doing a great job. You can see he has a concept, a way that he wants to play, a way that he wants his team to play, and obviously it will take some time until everybody really understands it. I think he will do a great job as a [head] coach too."
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