{"id":839604,"date":"2026-08-02T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839604\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:24:10","slug":"arsenals-arteta-expects-more-signings-as-tzolis-scores-against-girona-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839604\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s Arteta expects more signings as Tzolis scores against Girona | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Newly acquired Christos Tzolis scores for the English champions who have been linked to Bruno Guimaraes and Vinicius Jr in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 2 Aug 20262 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says he expects the Gunners to add some reinforcements to their squad in the coming weeks, insisting the Premier League champions will not \u201csit still\u201d while they prepare to defend their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/5\/19\/arsenal-crowned-premier-league-winners-as-man-city-lose-at-bournemouth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first English top-flight title<\/a> in 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>The north London club have been linked with Newcastle United\u2019s Bruno Guimaraes and Real Madrid\u2019s Vinicius Jr, but Arteta refused to discuss those reports following Arsenal\u2019s 4-1 win over La Liga side Girona in a friendly on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect to have movements in the next few weeks, obviously,\u201d the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get better like anybody else, and you just can see the transfer market and our opponents, what we are doing. We won\u2019t sit still, and we are very ambitious with what we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe margins are very small because we want to get better and the level is going to increase. We need to increase the competition internally. We need to make sure we identify the things that we don\u2019t have in the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have been relatively quiet in the transfer market compared with big-spending rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have signed goalkeeper Illan Meslier and forward Christos Tzolis, while defender Piero Hincapie has joined permanently after spending last season at the Emirates on loan.<\/p>\n<p>Tzolis scored on\u00a0his\u00a0debut on Saturday as the Premier League champions cruised past Girona in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Havertz, Max Dowman and Gabriel Jesus were also on the scoresheet for the Gunners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly acquired Christos Tzolis scores for the English champions who have been linked to Bruno Guimaraes and Vinicius&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,2057,596,44,2020,588,85,3586],"class_list":["post-839604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}