While both Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi, respectively from Deportivo La Coruña and Valencia, are joining in, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger talked about transfer market last days overall, attending his latest press conference:
"We are working on the deals. We are not close enough to announce today that they will sign for us. Will we sign anybody before the end of the transfer window? I am 99 per cent confident.
It was a strange transfer market. I expected it to be easier than ever but it was more difficult than ever. Not a lot has happened. It looks like when you meet other clubs and you have an English passport, you hit these [big] prices which are very difficult to understand compared to the quality of the players. It looks like it will be frenetic for me in the last three days. Everybody has sat on their pounds until now. We know they will all splash out now. I expect the next three days to be very, very busy, so be on alert!
Transfers being a distraction from Watford game? Not for me, not for us. We know the priority is to get results and to win your next game. We have shot ourselves in the foot so we have to respond very quickly. When you look at the other teams, they’re making points.
I’m happy when our supporters are happy. My job is to make the right decisions, if that is exactly similar to the contract of the players and that maintains the supporters being happy - that is even better. I focus first on making the right decisions for the club. Spending big money? You accuse me now of being a money splasher! It is a shame you are not my friend. You will see I spend a lot of money.
We already have a big squad, and we are already short on the numbers now. We have a requested number, and we can’t have any more players any way. IWith Joel Campbell going out, Calum Chambers maybe will go on loan somewhere. It will be alright".
Source: transfermarketweb.com