Arsenal confirm Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez Signings
Arsene Wenger is “99 per cent confident” that Arsenal will sign Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez costing £35m and £18m respectively. As the club scramble to bring in reinforcements in the final days of the transfer window according to The Independent.
The Gunners, having defeated Watford 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday, will soon be reinforced by the arrival of German defender Mustafi from Valencia and Spanish forward Perez, who will join from Deportivo La Coruna.
And Wenger, who has been repeatedly pressed on Arsenal’s previously minimal transfer activity through the off-season and early in the 2016-17 campaign, took the unusual step of commenting publicly on the expected arrivals ahead of the deals being formally confirmed.
“We have bought two players, Mustafi and Perez,” he said following the comfortable victory at Vicarage Road. They had medicals, now we can integrate them into the squad, we have to finish the paperwork. It looks as though it will be announced at the beginning of the week. We had to work very hard to get signings done. We have not got any plans for anyone else now”
This double signings will most certainly come as a relief to Arsenal fans and they can confidently look forward to another top four finish or even lifting the EPL title after more than a decade.