The Gunners square measure understood to be in talks with Valencia over a deal for his or her German centre-back Shkodran Mustaki and have created 3 new additions within the current window - Granit Xhaka, Tasumo Akano and Rob Holding.
Arsenal had a £29.3m provide for striker Alexander Lacazette rejected by Lyons earlier within the summer, whereas Gonzalo Higuain, with whom they need been joined for many transfer windows, affected from metropolis to Juventus for £75.3m last week.
But Wenger maintains he would really like to feature an additional offensive element to his squad despite comments from chief government Ivan Gazidis that the club "can't afford to outgun competitors" within the transfer market.
At the instant I actually have not too several offensive choices in terms of practised players," Wenger aforementioned following his side's 2-1 convert the MLS All-Stars in San Jose. "But let's not forget we have a tendency to still have a number of players reception.
"There also are a number of players WHO failed to play [against the MLS All-Star team], like [Santi] Cazorla and in fact [Mesut] Ozil and [Aaron] Ramsey square measure reception. [Olivier] Giroud is additionally not here.
"So we've got choices however we'll still look outside to search out an extra."
Holding contend all of Arsenal's pre-season friendly against the MLS All-Stars once finishing a £2m move from Sky Bet League One club Bolton Wanderers earlier this month.
Wenger was inspired with the performance of Holding, and said: "He's tailored amazingly well - he reads the sport well and understands what is going on on.
"He anticipates well and that is a high quality you do not see fairly often at such a young age."
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