Sources: Arteta could get 6 summer signings with Arsenal monitoring 25-goal South American

Arsenal returned to Europe this season but now Mikel Arteta’s squad needs strengthening to ensure they can attempt to compete on all fronts. Dean Jones provides GIVEMESPORT with a must-read guide to the Gunners’ summer transfer window.

We look at Arsenal’s strongest XI and see a team that can compete with almost anyone, yet as soon as a couple of players are absent they have problems. The aim for this window is to bring in talent that challenges the players in that starting line-up.

A new forward will join and Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling, Alexander Isak, Jonathan David, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison, Victor Osimhen, Cody Gakpo and Darwin Nunez are all linked as targets.

There is also a need to find a versatile defender and a midfielder. Those three positions are key areas of business in the window but sources indicate that there is a realisation the recruitment needs to go deeper than that. Arteta might have as many as six new signings by the time we get to the summer transfer deadline.

The signing of Aaron Hickey has been explored as a player that can bring depth to the back line while Youri Tielemans is emerging as a player they are interested in and sources have been suggesting that Leicester City are willing to sell at the right price. Transfermarkt currently value him at £49.5m.

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Arsenal fans were burned by the links to Dusan Vlahovic in January and will be wary of getting carried away by rumours in this window. Yet if there is one name that brings excitement in this market it might be Lautaro Martinez, fresh from racking up 25 goals and four assists across all competitions this season.

They looked into a deal last year and have