Arsenal sales problem
Arsenal have gone big this summer with a spending spree of nearly £200million.
But when it comes to sales – needed during this transfer window to balance their squad and their kitty, as well as bring in more new faces – the Gunners are lagging behind their rivals.
So far this window, they have recouped around £6.9m, seeing Brazilian winger Marquinhos head to Cruzeiro for £2.6m and Nuno Tavares to Lazio for £4.3m, while Thomas Partey, Jorginho, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney left on frees.
This has been an historical issue for Arsenal. Their record sale remains Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s £35m switch to Liverpool in 2017.
Below that, it is Nicolas Anelka’s £30m move to Real Madrid 26 years ago, one that famously allowed Arsene Wenger to build a new training ground and sign eventual club-record scorer Thierry Henry in 1999.
Arsenal have attempted to address this issue in recent years, selling Aaron Ramsale to Southampton, Eddie Nketiah to Crystal Palace and Emile Smith Rowe to Fulham for a combined total of around £89m in the summer of 2024. And in 2023, another academy graduate Folarin Balogun left for Monaco in a move that could hit £35m with bonuses.
But it remains an area that needs improvement. Over the next couple of weeks before the end of the window, Arsenal’s sales stats could look far more healthy.
Should the likes of Fabio Vieira, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Reiss Nelson exit for their market value, it could take their outgoings to well over £100m.
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