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Arsenal are moving differently in the market to previous years. The club are targeting players of a higher calibre and, in the cases of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, players at the elite clubs too who are getting regular game time.

Mikel Arteta has led a strategy alongside technical director Edu to level up the recruitment model of the team. Ensuring that Arsenal looks toward Premier League quality that can have an immediate impact.

Arsenal might have signed players from fellow EPL sides in the past, however, these tended to be players surplus to requirement, cheap and facing the latter stages of their careers where a move presented no sell-on value. Petr Cech, Willian, Cedric Soares and David Luiz were certainly key examples.

Danny Welbeck was also signed from Manchester United. Despite scoring some big goals, even against his former club, he left the club on a free without progressing his position in the Arsenal team.

With this new focus, though, comes new challenges, and Arsenal have found themselves beaten in their pursuit of some of their primary targets this summer. After bidding for both Raphinha and Lisandro Martinez, eventually, the Gunners were beaten to the signatures by