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WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 25: Arsenal's manager Mikel Arteta gestures to William Saliba during the Premier League match between Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and Arsenal FC at Molineux on January 25, 2025 in Wolverhampton, England. Mikel Merino was the talk of the town following last weekend’s 2-0 win away to Leicester City. He came on in the 69th minute at King Power Stadium before heading in our opening goal and tapping home the second. After the game, Merino - who is typically deployed in midfield - said he’d never played up front in his career before, not that it looked that way! Naturally, the question on the lips of reporters at Mikel Arteta’s pre-West Ham United press conference on Friday was whether we’d see more of the same at Emirates Stadium on Saturday. Our head coach spo...

It has been five years since Manchester United spent money on a permanent signing in the January transfer window, and the new football structure at Old Trafford will aim to keep the chequebook closed again this winter. Bruno Fernandes was the last mid-season transfer at Old Trafford in January 2020, and if you were making a case for business in that window, you would certainly have Fernandes front and centre of your proposal. He is United's best signing of the last decade and has proved outstanding value for money at £47m. Since then, United have done all their major business in the summer, as the most well-run clubs always aim to do. The winter window in Erik ten Hag's first season was notable for some stop-gap loan deals, in Jack Butland, Marcel Sabitzer and Wout Weghorst. Ralf Rangnick ...

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Arteta talks forward options for West Ham game

Manchester United have three transfer options to fund January rescue act