Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema 'already househunting in London ahead of Arsenal move in the summer'
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Arsenal have reinforcements in their attack with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan joining Alexandre Lacazette in the January transfer window.
Mesut Ozil has also extended his contract after signing a £350,000-a-week deal.
But with the exit of Olivier Giroud it's said that Arsenal are lacking a targets man, or plan B, and Real Madrid's Karim Benzema is being linked to the club.
Spanish reports claim Florentino Perez wants to get rid of the Frenchman in favour of Spurs striker Harry Kane and Don Balon claims Benzema is keen.
They claim he's already started looking at houses in London ahead of a potential summer move.
Benzema has also been linked with PSG if they lose Edinson Cavani.
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Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal's £60m Alexis Sanchez mistake
rsene Wenger has finally admitted he made a £60m mistake not selling Alexis Sanchez last summer.
Wenger insisted if he “had his time again” then he would have allowed Sanchez to join Manchester City after they made a mega bid on deadline day last August.
Gunners manager Wenger also claimed that Sanchez has joined Manchester United for a contract worth even MORE than £600,000-a-week.
When quizzed whether the deal was as much as the £600,000-a-week as had been reported, Wenger pointed to the ceiling as if to signify it was worth even more.
Wenger, who made the remarks during a Q&A session for the club's executive box holders, was careful not to use the word regret but suggested it was difficult to keep an unhappy player.
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It comes in the week Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez went AWOL after missing out on a move to Manchester City.
Wenger admitted that he should have sold Sanchez because his contract was running down but said he was determined to bring in a replacement and ran out of time to sign Monaco’s Thomas Lemar.
Sanchez endured an unhappy four months at Arsenal after being made to stay at the Emirates and Wenger pointed to his drop in goals and assists compared to the previous season as to why the gamble to keep him backfired.
LMAO! Arsene Wenger vows to play his Fab Four together
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Arsene Wenger will get all his attacking players into his new-look Arsenal line-up, because it is in his DNA.
Wenger completed a record £56million deal for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang this week, has also signed Henrikh Mkhitaryan, persuaded Mesut Ozil to put pen to paper on a new £350,000-a-week contract and has summer arrival Alexandre Lacazette.
It will be a mission to get them all into the starting XI — especially with the Gunners leaking goals at the back — but manager Wenger confessed he is desperate to do it.
He said: “That’s our DNA. We are an attacking team. The danger is when you are an attacking team that you don’t score and then of course you create your own problems.