Arsenal Transfer News: Gunners Urged to Spend Amid Zlatan Ibrahimovic Rumours

Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has urged Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger to spend during the summer transfer window or risk falling behind Spurs, while Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has told reporters he already knows where he’ll be playing his football next season.

The Gunners passed rivals Tottenham in the Premier League standings on the final day of the season, but Redknapp believes Arsenal were “lucky” to do so and will have to improve greatly over the summer to stay ahead of Spurs.

Writing for the Daily Telegraph, he stated his beliefs that Spurs’ squad has better long-term potential and that the Gunners will have to sign at least two players to keep up:

Arsene Wenger deserves enormous credit for finishing above Tottenham Hotspur in the league, but I know which squad I would rather have.

Being brutally honest, Arsenal are very lucky to have finished the season second and Arsene needs to buy some players over the summer to get anywhere near Spurs. …

Arsenal need to buy, there is a lot of work to do. They desperately need a new centre-half and another striker to take them forward. Too many times this season they’ve been suspect in certain areas, whereas I can’t see any real weaknesses in the Spurs team.

No less than five Tottenham players made England’s provisional squad for the upcoming UEFA Euro 2016 …

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