Arteta ready to break budget for striker
Mikel Arteta has hinted Arsenal are ready to break the bank for the right striker this summer – comparing this transfer window to overspending on a lavish wedding, writes JORDAN DAVIES.
The Gunners need an elite No.9, and have made Newcastle’s Alexander Isak, Sporting Lisbon’s Viktor Gyokeres and Red Bull Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko their top targets.
Both Gyokeres, 26, and Sesko, 21, could cost between £60m and £70m, while Isak is valued as high as £150m by the Toon.
Arsenal have proven in the past they are prepared to spend big – splashing £105m on midfielder Declan Rice in July 2023 – and could splash up to £200m in this window.
Arteta said: “The budget is like when you have your wedding, you plan your wedding with your wife and you give her a budget.
“It’s never less, it’s always more. When you build a house, it’s always more. Normally this happens. You prepare for different scenarios.
“Sometimes we want a player and suddenly we have an injury or that player gets injured. There are so many variables that can happen but there is a budget.
“There is always an idea of what we can do, what we can improve, what the priorities are going to be and then let’s see if we can do it.”
