You'd imagine the eight arrivals combined would be on less wages per week than the five definite outgoing players. (anfieldindex.com)
CaughtOffside understands that whilst Arsene Wenger will be handed a significant transfer war - chest he has been told he needs to partially fund such moves from the sale of outgoing players whilst also encouraged to trim the overall size of his Gunners squad. (caughtoffside.com)
In order to do that, they will likely have to strengthen the squad where possible, and perhaps replace outgoing players as even though it would be ideal to keep the current group entirely in tact, it may not be that easy. (caughtoffside.com)