Arsenal are unlikely to make any signings in the January transfer window according to the club’s head of football Raul Sanllehi, Football.London reports.
Last season did see movement in January with Alexis Sanchez moving to Manchester United and Henrikh Mkhitaryan moving in the opposite direction.
Konstantinos Mavropanos and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang also sealed switched to the Emirates midway through last season.
However Sanllehi states that a busy January will not become a regular occurrence.
I don’t believe much in the winter window. There are exceptions but if you have the right planification in the summer and the team are performing at the level you expect, you should not go to that window or try to avoid it.
It’s there for emergencies, a big injury or if something is really not working and you need to recover there. I give much more importance to the summer windows.
Arsenal signed five players for the first-team in the summer transfer window as well as a number of youngsters to play for their academy.
Bernd Leno, Lucas Torreira, Matteo Guendouzi, Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Stephan Lichtsteiner all joined Unai Emery’s side in July and have all featured this season for the Gunners.
Sanllehi added:
We did investment very early because we understand this market as being inflationary, so the longer you take to make the signings the higher the prices normally become. We did all the homework beforehand, I would say from February, March.
