High-Level Signings: Arsenal’s Expensive Reinforcements to Challenge Manchester City

The three incorporations made to date by Mikel Arteta’s team are of a high level. Three signings that can give Arsenal the leap in quality and wardrobe necessary to measure themselves against Manchester City. Three disbursements, yes, that have forced the Gunner board to draw out the checkbook of large operations. Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurriën Timber are three golden reinforcements, never better said, for the second classified in the 2022-2023 Premier League.

Former Chelsea, West Ham and Ajax players arrive at the Emirates Stadium to raise the level of the Gunner spine. But quality has to be paid for, and the almost 250 million invested by Arsenal make the 2023 summer market, and after having barely signed three players, the most expensive in the club’s history.

Between fixed and variable, Arsenal paid 70 million euros for Kai Havertz. The Chelsea attacker to date came out, although he has not yet reached the best version of him, he has shown at Stamford Bridge the quality and potential that he treasures. To take Declan Rice, the Gunners had to go all-in. The third offer, of 120 million euros (between fixed and variable), was the one that convinced West Ham and made the 24-year-old midfielder the most expensive English player in history. For his part, the former defender ajacied did not leave Amsterdam at a bargain price either: 42 million fixed euros and 5 in variables.

In total, 210 million pounds (approximately 245 million euros). And it is that, since 2021/2022, Arsenal has been increasing its spending on transfers. If three summers ago the Gunners invested 167 million euros in six signings, Ben White (€58 M) being the most prominent, in the summer market of 2022 the London team raised their investment to 192 million euros. However, Gabriel Jesús’s is not even among the club’s five most expensive additions.

After the highest investment in Gunner history, two of the three signings undertaken in the summer of 2023 fully enter the top 3. Behind Declan Rice (€120 M) are Nicolas Pépé (€80 M) and Kai Havertz ( €70 million). The north London team thus equals Chelsea and the transfer of Enzo Fernández, and is co-leader of the ranking of most expensive transfers in the history of the Premier League, above both Manchester teams.

Arsenal has made significant investments throughout its history, but since the arrival of Mikel Arteta to the local bench at Emirates Stadium in December 2019, the Gunners have gone one step further.

Since 2020, the first transfer market with the Spanish coach at the helm of the team, the London team is approaching twenty additions. From Gabriel Magalhães and Thomas Partey to Declan Rice and Jurriën Timber, passing through Oleksandr Zinchenko and Fábio Vieira. A significant number of signings that, although most of them have had or are having a performance in line with expectations, have not come cheap for Arsenal. The Gunners’ spending since the arrival of Mikel Arteta has already skyrocketed to 588 million pounds. In other words, almost 700 million euros (approximately €690 million) in just over three years. An investment according to a team whose goal is to win the Premier League again.

2023-07-15 19:18:29
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