Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis has assured fans that the club will sign top-quality players while also urging the fans to back coach Arsene Wenger. He however did not mention the name of any target, as top-quality in Arsenal’s context could be a new Yaya Sanogo.
‘We’re looking for top-quality players,’ Gazidis said at a fan event on Thursday. ‘We’ve got three times as many scouts as we had four years ago. I believe that to be a world-class football club you’ve got to be world class off the pitch.’
Gazidis denied there was an element of sentimentality behind the decision to give Wenger an extended stay.
‘It wasn’t a sentimental decision,’ he said. ‘It was a mutual one… I care about the club and those values. I want the club to be successful.’
‘There has been disagreement,’ he added. ‘There has been a lack of unity and dissatisfaction. The board knows that.
‘I beg you, please come together and give our manager and this team support. I want the atmosphere to be united and it has been a struggle because we haven’t had that.’
Last season, the Gunners won the FA Cup but finished fifth in the Premier League, failing to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in Wenger’s 21-year tenure.
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