Arsenal’s newly appointed Director of Football, Raul Sanllehi, has refused to rule out the possibility of the club dipping into the transfer market to further improve Unai Emery’s squad in January.
However, Sanllehi did admit that he isn’t keen on conducting heavy business mid-way through the season.
The Spanish administrator, who left Barcelona to join the Gunners as Head of Football Relations, was confirmed as the new DoF last month after it was announced that Ivan Gazidis was set to leave for Milan at the end of October.
Exclusively talking to BBC Sport journalist David Ornstein, Sanllehi claimed that the Gunners would have :a whole team of professionals constantly analysing what’s in the market”. He continued, saying:
I’m not a strong believer of the winter window, normally it’s used for emergency cases when things are not going the way you planned in the summer window.
That doesn’t mean we’re not going to use it, I don’t know yet, it’s early in the process.
If things go as planned, the winter window should not be as relevant as the summer window.
First we need to know what the needs could be, what opportunities are in the market. We’re not actively looking into that.
Of course we’re always watching the market, we have a whole team of professionals constantly analysing what’s in the market, what opportunities could be there, also our head coach analyses what needs he may have.
We have not reached a point where we’ve decided whether we are going or not for the winter window.
But it will always be a decision according to the needs we may have.”
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