Arsenal's new XI: How Arsene Wenger's side could line up now the transfer window is shut

It's another big season ahead for Arsene Wenger
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Tom Doyle2 September 2017

Arsenal ended the transfer window with more questions than answers as Arsene Wenger faces a tough task amid mounting pressure from fans.

The Gunners opted to keep hold of Manchester City target Alexis Sanchez after failing in their own last-minute attempts to sign Thomas Lemar from Monaco.

​Arsenal made an 11th-hour effort to sign the 21-year-old in a club-record deal worth £92million, but Standard Sport understands that Lemar was not keen on joining a Europa League club.

That meant Sanchez was prevented from joining City, but the Chilean forward's future - and that of Mesut Ozil - are no closer to being resolved with both star names having less than a year to run on their contracts.

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One player who did land a move away was England international Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who completed the formalities on his £40m transfer to Liverpool.

But Gunners fans have been left frustrated after failing to land the likes of Lemar - let alone Kylian Mbappe - with further signings failing to materliase beyond early deals for Sead Kolasinac and Alexandre Lacazette.

TRANSFER INS AND OUTS

PLAYER IN/OUT
Sead Kolasinac (Schalke, free) IN
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon, £45m) IN
Takuma Asano (Stuttgart, loan) OUT
Stefan O'Connor (Newcastle, free) OUT
Kaylen Hinds (Wolfsburg, undisclosed) OUT
Glen Kamara (Dundee, free) OUT
Marc Bola (Bristol Rovers, loan) OUT
Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus, £11m) OUT
Cohen Bramall (Birmingham, loan) OUT
Yaya Sanogo (Toulouse, free) OUT
Stephy Mavididi (Preston, loan) OUT
Carl Jenkinson (Birmingham, loan) OUT
Gabriel Paulista (Valencia, undisclosed) OUT
Ismael Bennacer (Empoli, undisclosed) OUT
Savvas Mourgos (Norwich, undisclosed) OUT
Jon Toral (Hull, undisclosed) OUT
Kieran Gibbs (West Brom, £7m) OUT
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool, undisclosed) OUT
Lucas Perez (Deportivo, loan) OUT
Joel Campbell (Real Betis, loan) OUT

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FINAL SQUAD

PLAYER SQUAD NO.
Mathieu Debuchy 2
Per Mertesacker 4
Laurent Koscielny 6
Alexis Sanchez 7
Aaron Ramsey 8
Alexandre Lacazette 9
Jack Wilshere 10
Mesut Ozil 11
Olivier Giroud 12
David Ospina 13
Theo Walcott 14
Rob Holding 16
Alex Iwobi 17
Nacho Monreal 18
Santi Cazorla 19
Shkodran Mustafi 20
Calum Chambers 21
Jeff Reine-Adelaide 22
Danny Welbeck 23
Hector Bellerin 24
Granit Xhaka 29
Ainsley Maitland-Niles 30
Sead Kolasinac 31
Chuba Akpom 32
Petr Cech 33
Francis Coquelin 34
Mohamed Elneny 35

*Based on the Premier League’s 25-man squad

HOW THEY COULD LINE-UP

PREDICTION

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