Arsenal only named a 22-man squad in the Premier League last season, with Mikel Arteta operating with a smaller number of players. That may well have cost them in the race for the title, however, with a number of injuries hitting them hard in the second half of the campaign.

Arsenal are poised to complete the signing of a Premier League star imminently, with the player undergoing his medicals.

Sporting’s Viktor Gyokeres and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko have been placed at the top of Arsenal’s wishlist at centre-forward, while a host of high-profile names have been identified as potential replacements for Gabriel Martinelli on the left flank.