Donyell Malen, £85m Viktor Gyokeres fee, £52m Martin Zubimendi deal - Arsenal transfer truth

It has been a pretty good season so far for Arsenal. With two months remaining they're about where they'd want to be. The Gunners are firmly in the hunt for the Premier League title alongside Manchester City and Liverpool, and despite a 1-0 defeat to Porto in the Champions League round of 16 first leg, they're still favourites to progress.

That doesn't mean this summer won't be a busy one. There's expected to be plenty of activity at the Emirates after what was a quiet January.

«It wasn't possible to do any January deals,» Mikel Arteta told TNT Sports last month. «We didn't have the capacity to improve the team in the way that we think we want to improve it. So we decided not to do something yet. We have one of the thinnest squads in the league, that's for sure — as when you talk about the numbers, especially in certain areas, we are really thin.»

Arsenal are keen to address that this summer. Here football.london takes a look at the likelihood of some of the players they have been linked with ending up at Emirates Stadium.

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There's no doubt that the forward areas are where Arsenal are looking to strengthen this summer. Donyell Malen has stated that he could be the man to fill that void. The Dutch international, who was an academy player at Arsenal stated in an interview that he would like to return one day.

«Because I played as a youth player in England, it is a great dream to still play in the Premier League,» Malen told VoetballZone. «Every now and then there are points in your football career where you have to make decisions. I actually trained with