Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta is confident the club will achieve all of their transfer goals before the October 6 deadline.
The Gunners could only finish as high as eighth in the Premier League last season, their worst finish since coming 12th in 1994-95.
Arsenal always looked likely to be busy in the transfer market following that disappointment, as they look to rebuild under Arteta, who replaced Unai Emery late last year.
Defence appeared to be the area of the squad in most need of refreshment and the club made the loan spells of Pablo Mari and Cedric Soares – both of whom hardly featured after their January arrivals due to injuries – permanent before the season ended.
William Saliba has joined up with them after spending 2019-20 on loan at previous club Saint-Etienne, Willian signed on a free transfer from Chelsea and Gabriel Magalhaes is expected to complete a move from Lille.
Dani Ceballos, Houssem Aouar and Thomas Partey remain potential arrivals in midfield, and Arteta is optimistic Arsenal will complete all the deals they had set out to.
"I'm confident we're going to do everything we can together to achieve the target we had [for] before October 6," Arteta told reporters ahead of Saturday's Community Shield clash with Liverpool.
"If we are not able to do that it's because we couldn't reach that level or somebody beat us with our planning.
