Arsenal fans beware! Wenger insists there is no need for January spending spree

Arsene Wenger has warned Arsenal fans to not expect any new signings during the January transfer window.

The Gunners are currently in the middle of an injury crisis, with eight first-team players ruled out of Saturday's clash with Newcastle.

Abou Diaby, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Mikel Arteta, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Ozil and Theo Walcott will all be absent for Alan Pardew's trip to London.

But despite the ever increasing injury problems at the club, Wenger has not promised to enter the transfer market in January when the window reopens.

"If everybody is fit and available, we don't need to go into the transfer market," said Wenger.

"But we have to consider that there could be a question mark with Koscielny's fitness and we have to go out on the transfer market.

"There will be very little activity, because all the big clubs want to keep their players, and it will be as usual quiet in the first three weeks and a bit frenetic in the last three or four days."

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