With pre-season well underway, football managers, agents, and executives are frantically working to secure their targets and finetune their squad with the return of domestic football less than one month away.
After coming within touching distance of a first Premier League title in nearly two decades last season, Arsenal have wasted no time in working to strengthen the squad that spent 248 days at the top of the league before ultimately missing out on success last term.
A delay in announcing the capture of Declan Rice started to put some level of trepidation in the hearts of Gunners fans, but on Saturday Mikel Arteta got his man, with the deal getting over the line for a club-record £105m.