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\nDanny Welbeck: ‘I’ve got that fire in my belly’<\/p>\n
Arsenal will splash more cash before the summer transfer window closes, manager Mikel Arteta said, insisting the Premier League champions will not “sit \u2060still” while they prepare to defend their first English top-flight title in 22 years.<\/p>\n
Arsenal – who play Real Betis at Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Wednesday – have been relatively quiet in the market compared to big-spending rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Chelsea, but the north London side have been linked with moves for Newcastle United midfielder Bruno Guimaraes and Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr.<\/p>\n
While Arteta would not be \u200cdrawn on Arsenal’s reported \u2060pursuit of the pair, he told reporters on Saturday that the club were determined to “improve and evolve” the squad.<\/p>\n
“We expect to have movements in the next few weeks, obviously,” the Spaniard added, speaking after a 4-1 pre-season win \u200cover Girona.<\/p>\n
“We want to get better like anybody else, and you just can see the transfer market \u2060and our opponents, what we are doing. We won’t \u200csit still and we are very ambitious with what we \u2060are doing.<\/p>\n
“The \u200cmargins 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 \u2060to make sure we identify the things that we don’t have in the \u2060team.”<\/p>\n
Arsenal have so far signed goalkeeper Illan Meslier and forward Christos Tzolis, while defender Piero Hincapie has joined permanently after spending the last season at the Emirates on loan.<\/p>\n
They begin the defence of their Premier League title at home against promoted Coventry City \u200con 21 August.<\/p>\n
\nDanny Welbeck: ‘I’ve got that fire in my belly’<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Brighton striker Danny Welbeck – formerly of Arsenal – has completed a move to Chelsea after signing a two-year deal.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old, who has been capped 42 times by England, will head straight for Hong Kong to join up with head coach Xabi Alonso and his new team-mates on their pre-season tour.<\/p>\n
Welbeck, who began his career at Manchester United and also enjoyed a five-year spell with the Gunners, told the Blues’ official website: “When you hear of the interest from Chelsea, it\u2019s something that fills you with such immense pride.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really honoured to come to a club of this stature at what feels like a really exciting time.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve got that fire in my belly and I\u2019m ready to give it everything for this club to make everyone at Chelsea, and the supporters, proud.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal will splash more cash before the summer transfer window closes, manager Mikel Arteta said, insisting the Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-580071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}