It’s crunch time in the January transfer window. Now, Mikel Arteta must lock in his final decisions of which Arsenal pieces to move across the board.
The window officially closes on Monday, February 3 and – as of right now – Arsenal are yet to conduct any business. This is despite persistent conversation around the striker position and amid a rapidly unfolding set of circumstances at full-back.
Arteta had started the season with Riccardo Calafiori on the left-hand side of defence though, three times already, has lost him to injury. He returned to net the winner at Wolves last weekend.
In that match, Myles Lewis-Skelly was controversially sent off for serious foul play. It put the 18-year-old on course to miss their next three matches against Manchester City in the Premier League, the League Cup semi-final second leg away to Newcastle United and then the following top-flight meeting with Leicester City.
Kieran Tierney would be required to step up, in either’s absence. The peculiarity of that situation is that his spell at Arsenal is, seemingly, coming towards their end.
Into the final six months of his contract at the Emirates Stadium, the 27-year-old has been in discussions with Celtic over a return for some time.
