What’s your score out of 10 for Arsenal’s £300m summer spending spree?

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·04 de setembro de 2025

What’s your score out of 10 for Arsenal’s £300m summer spending spree?

Perhaps our best signing of the summer was Andrea Berta? Our new Director of Football likes to talk to as many names on his shortlist as possible and collect lots of information. He then sits with the rest of the recruitment team and considers all details.

While that method means Gooners had to be patient (Arsenal need to stop leaking out information), the Italian’s job is not to give content to Sky Sports or YouTubers. This strategy meant he had an advantage when negotiating with Sporting Lisbon and meant he could easily hijack Eze’s move to Spurs.

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Viktor Gyökeres made it clear to the 53 year old that the Emirates was his chosen destination at the same time that Benjamin Sesko was talking himself out of a move to the English capital. The player’s agent gave us contrasting details to what the Portuguese champions were quoting us. The striker accused his employer of breaking a verbal agreement from a year ago, essentially that if he gave 12 months more service he would not be priced out of a move this summer. The 27 year old’s representatives insist they have evidence that their client was telling the truth.

By knowing we were the Swede’s only choice we could call Sporting’s bluff in the knowledge that no bidding war was forthcoming.

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Eze deal already in place

Eberechi Eze had made it clear a return to the red half of North London was his preference when asked. That is why the idea that we signed the 27 year old at the 11th hour in response to Kai Havertz’s injury was exaggerated.

In reality, terms with the midfielder and Crystal Palace had been agreed weeks before, with Steve Parish told not to translate our silence as a lack of interest. There was just some more pressing business to attend to such as trying to raise funds by getting rid of some of our fringe players.

The Eagles owner was in no rush, immediately wanting to give himself the best chance of qualifying for the UEFA Conference League. Having a decent relationship with our Vice Chairman Tim Lewis, it is believed the two were in constant contact.

While Eze was not willing to put his career on hold and wait (hence why he was receptive to Spurs) he and Palace would not have been shocked to get the call.

Did so much money need investing in Madueke and more defenders when possibly a LM was needed? Money could not be raised through player sales but that is a consequence of mismanagement from a previous regime. I think Mr Berta has the personality where he will not let that happen in the future.

Rating the transfer window

All any fan of any club wants to do is see their team try to be the best version they can be. The Gunners did that this summer (why did we not do this 12 months ago?).

It remains to be seen if the Kroenke family have learnt from previous mistakes and if this is a long term change of transfer strategy. It would not shock me if this time next year our owners are recouping this window’s outlay. Based in isolation though I would grade this window an 8 out of 10.

The pressure was to find a proven goal scorer and while there can be zero guarantees we probably got the best available in Europe. That was before it was revealed there was indeed a way to get Isak out of Newcastle. In a world where everyone talks off record, Arsenal were led to believe any deal was not plausible. That of course could mean that we simply did not agree on the Toon’s valuation.

If I woke up tomorrow and read we signed Mbappe I would say we will be champions. I do not say the same regarding Isak and you should be saying that for 130 million. Eze should take the pressure off Ødegaard being our sole creative outlet.

It would have been 9 had the Madueke and Mosquera money been spent on a quality LM. We also need to get out of this poor habit of loaning players just to get them off the wage bill.

How would you rate our window? Let me know in the comments. I am saying 8 out of 10!

Dan Smith

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