The three incorporations made to date by Mikel Arteta’s team are of a high level. Three signings that can give Arsenal the leap in quality and wardrobe necessary to measure themselves against Manchester City. Three disbursements, yes, that have forced the board gunner to take out the checkbook of large operations. Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurriën Timber are three golden reinforcements, never better said, for the second classified in the 2022-2023 Premier League.
The former Chelsea, West Ham and Ajax players arrive at the Emirates Stadium to raise the level of the spine gunner. But quality has to be paid for, and The almost 250 million invested by Arsenal make the 2023 summer market, and after having just signed three players, the most expensive in the club’s history.
Between fixed and variable, Arsenal paid 70 million euros for Kai Havertz. The Chelsea attacker to date came out, although he has not yet reached the best version of him, he has shown at Stamford Bridge the quality and potential that he treasures. To get Declan Rice, the gunners they had to do all in. The third offer, of 120 million euros (between fixed and variable), was the one that convinced West Ham and made the 24-year-old midfielder the most expensive English player in history. For his part, former defender ajacied Nor did it leave Amsterdam at a bargain price: 42 million euros fixed and 5 in variables.
In total, 210 million pounds (approximately 245 million euros). And it is that, since 2021/2022, Arsenal has been increasing its spending on transfers. If three summers ago gunners they invested 167 million euros in six signings, being Ben White (€58 million) the most outstanding, In the summer market of 2022, the London team raised its investment to 192 million euros. However, Gabriel Jesús’s is not even among the club’s five most expensive additions.
After the highest investment in history gunnertwo of the three signings undertaken in the summer of 2023 fully enter the top 3. After Declan Rice (€120M) meet Nicolas Pépé (€80M) and Kai Havertz (€70M). The north London team thus equals Chelsea and the transfer of Enzo Fernández, and is co-leader of the ranking of most expensive transfers in the history of the Premier League, above both Manchester teams.
Arsenal has carried out important investments throughout its history, but since the arrival of Mikel Arteta to the local bench of the Emirates Stadium in December 2019the gunners they have gone a step further.
Since 2020, the first transfer market with the Spanish coach at the helm of the team, the London team is close to twenty new additions. From Gabriel Magalhães and Thomas Partey to Declan Rice and Jurriën Timber, passing through Oleksandr Zinchenko and Fábio Vieira. A significant number of signings that, although most of them have had or are having a performance in line with expectations, have not come cheap for Arsenal. The expense of gunners Since the arrival of Mikel Arteta, it has already skyrocketed to 588 million pounds. In other words, almost 700 million euros (approximately €690 million) in just over three years. An investment according to a team whose goal is to win the Premier League again.