Arsene Wenger has confirmed that Arsenal’s next signing will mostly be a defender, a replacement for Thomas Vermaelen who left the gunners to join Barcelona.
Wenger said, (after the Community shield triumph)
“If I can find another centre back I will do it,
The French manager also praised his team for winning against the defending league champions,
“I would say overall it was a united team performance and it was a first half of quality, togetherness and good movement,”
“It’s very difficult to compare (with past squads) but yeah, in the last two years I’ve been speaking about big transfers.
“In the years before that we always lost big transfers so (the current policy) has now strengthened the squad.”