Arsenal News LIVE updates: Man City could sue, Sanchez concerns, Pires demands change

ARSENAL news continues as the fall-out from a tumultuous transfer deadline day hangs over the Emirates.

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Arsenal news live updates: Wenger has given advice to Sanchez

ARSENAL NEWS LIVE: All the updates from the Emirates

Saturday September 2

Perez only wanted Deportivo

16:11: Arsenal were willing to send Lucas Perez to a number of clubs this week - but the player only wanted to join Deportivo la Coruna.

“In the last three days of the market I spoke with various sporting directors and coaches,” he told Marca.

“Arsenal had sealed agreements with many clubs, but I made it clear to them that I only wanted to come here.”

Wenger talks Sanchez and Ozil

14:30: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger admits the club may have to make a “financial sacrifice” with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez next summer.

The duo’s contract run out of the end of the campaign and Wenger says they may leave on free transfers.

He said: ”I can not tell you everything that happened because after you decide to let a player of that calibre go, you need to replace him because nobody would understand that you let the player go.

"When you can not do it you keep the player, and you make a financial sacrifice because at the end of the day what you want is to have a team with good potential and top quality.

"So Alexis Sanchez will go, like Mesut Ozil, in the final year of his contract, or you think that during the season you find a way to extend the contract, or at the end of the season the players go for free."

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Santi Cazorla (left) won't play for Arsenal until January

Wenger needs to change

14:03: Arsene Wenger must “inject some freshness” into Arsenal to keep up with a changing football landscape, says Robert Pires.

The paucity of signings and Arsenal’s poor start to the league season have led some fans to call for Wenger to leave.

And Pires concedes the Frenchman needs to change.

“He needs to inject some youth into his staff, it’s important,” Pires told RMC. 

“He loves his job. No-one can teach him anything, and I won’t. 

“But football has changed, the footballers have changed, their behaviour isn’t the same, and football is getting faster and faster.

“Perhaps his entourage and he need to adapt to this new football. 

“I don’t want him to leave, but he will have to inject some freshness around him”.

Cazorla injury

13:45: Santi Cazorla will not play for Arsenal until January after being left out of their 25-man Premier League squad.

The Spaniard has been out injured since last October with an Achilles problem.

Cazorla, 32, will be out of contract at the end of this season.

And he is set to miss the first half go the Gunners campaign.

Hartson on Sanchez

12:21: Arsenal should have sold Alexis Sanchez to Manchester City on deadline day.

That is the belief of John Hartson, who claims Sanchez may struggle to commit himself at Arsenal this season.

“Arsenal were woeful last weekend up at Anfield. It could have been 7-0,” Hartson said on Football Focus.

“Arsenal now if they get into the Champions League and recoup some of the money from Sanchez they need him for that. It all depends on where Sanchez’s mind is.

“Will he be willing to get his head down, work and fight as we know he can with the abilities he’s got? Or, will he be sulking? We know he’s upset that the move has fallen through.

“Maybe they should have just sold him and taken the £60m because I can’t see Arsenal making the top four.”

Alex Scott retires

12:05: Elsewhere, in women's football, England and Arsenal defender Alex Scott has retired from international duty.

The 32-year-old right-back made 140 appearances for her country, winning silver in the 2009 UEFA Women's Euros and bronze at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

"Today is the end of a chapter as I turn the lights out on my England career," Scott said in a video posted on her Twitter account.

"This decision has not come lightly, but sometimes the right choice is the one that involves some sacrifice.

"My dream as a little girl playing in that football cage in the East End was to one day pull on the Three Lions shirt and represent my country. I am so proud and humbled that I managed to do just that.”

Merson fuming

11:28: Paul Merson has branded Arsenal an “embarrassment” for how they have started the season.

Writing for the Daily Star, the former Gunners star said: “Arsenal’s 4-0 thrashing by Liverpool was the worst I have EVER seen under Wenger. It was shambolic, horrendous.

“I think the players have lost all respect for him. But I think the fans are losing all respect as well.

“They are playing for Arsenal and they are turning it into a mockery. They are embarrassing the football club.

“It’s becoming one of football’s also-rans because they are a million miles from winning the league and that’s pathetic.

“I’m disgusted. It’s just an embarrassment from top to bottom. It frustrates me. And it will get worse too.”

Sanchez legal action

10:50: Manchester City could reportedly sue Arsenal over their failure to sign Alexis Sanchez on deadline day.

Arsenal and City have a a£55million agreement in place at 10am on deadline day but the Gunners were only prepared to let the player go if they secured a replacement.

A £92m bid for Thomas Lemar was accepted by Monaco but Arsenal then said they didn’t have enough time to secure the move.

It means Sanchez will remain at Arsenal for the last year of his contract.

And Chilean newspaper El Mercurio claim City could sue their Premier League rivals because they were told a move would happen.

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Sanchez unhappy

10:30: Alexis Sanchez is unhappy at seeing his transfer to Manchester City go up in smoke.

Arsenal failed to sign a replacement for Sanchez in time on deadline day, meaning the Chilean will remain at the club.

Arsene Wenger said of the situation: “Your interest is always to perform and he is 100 per cent committed, I have no doubt about that.

“It’s very difficult for me to speak about what happened because what I want the player to do now is focus on his career, on his season and on Arsenal Football Club.

“I spoke before about integrity and values and I always make sure my commitment is at the level expected from the people who pay me and have confidence in me.

“I think the players’ side is exactly the same.”

Kolasinac settled

10:00: Sead Kolasinac says Granit Xhaka as helped him settle in at Arsenal.

Kolasinac was one of only two summer signings the Gunners made, arriving on a free transfer from Schalke.

“Granit’s made things extremely easy for me,” Kolasinac told Arsenal.com. “When he heard I was signing here, he messaged me and told me to contact him if I ever needed anything. 

“He’s made it easy for me to settle and of course I’m happy to have a German speaker like him too. 

“After tour we saw each other a couple of times, but he has a wife too and he needs to spend time with her. In the evening or after training, we haven’t seen that much of each other, but that will come when I’m more settled and I’m a bit less stressed.”

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