Ozil Fever at the Emirates

Arsenal

In:
Yaya Sanogo - Auxerre – Free
Mathieu Flamini - AC Milan – Free
Emiliano Viviano - Palermo – Loan
Mesut Ozil - Real Madrid - £42m

Out:
Andrey Arshavin - Zenit St Petersberg – Free
Vito Mannone - Sunderland – Undisclosed
Denilson - Sao Paulo – Free
Sébastien Squillaci – Released
Francis Coquelin - Freiburg  (Loan)
Johan Djourou - Hamburg (Loan)
Andre Santos - Flamengo – Undisclosed
Joel Campbell - Olympiacos (Loan)
Gervinho - Roma - £8m
Ignasi Miquel - Leicester (Loan)
Marouane Chamakh - Crystal Palace – Undisclosed

It was beginning to look like Arsenal were to wear the ‘crisis club’ tag this season after a slow start, including an embarrassing 3-1 defeat at the hands of Aston Villa on opening day. Arsene Wenger was booed by Arsenal fans and it seemed as though it was just a matter of time before the Frenchman got the sack, however Arsene had a trick up his sleeve. With deadline day quickly approaching and Arsenal fans resorting to “Yes! Yaya Sanogo!” as their only means of keeping up morale amidst Spurs’ seemingly consistent stream of high quality signings. Deadline day brought the signing which gunners fans had dreamt of, with Mesut Ozil signed for £42m from Real Madrid, many of the Arsenal faithful could do nothing but pinch themselves repeatedly before referencing his signing every minute of the day. However, with the massive signing of Europe’s most prolific assist provider, have Arsenal now got a side which is capable of challenging for the title? The answer is no. Wenger has seemingly forgotten about the gaps in his defence and a lack of quality strikers, whilst strengthening the one area of his squad that actually did not need to be strengthened. Amidst the failed attempts for Luis Suarez and Luiz Gustavo to name a few it did seem for a while as though the gunners weren’t going to make any high profile signings, but Arsene finally got his man, leaving Arsenal fans at home yelling COYG! (Come on you gunners)

Grade: B+

The signing of Ozil has mitigated what would have been a disastrous window for the London based club, still failed to fix holes in their leaky defence.

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