Arsenal have been heavily criticised by fans and media over their summer transfer window business.
It is now understood Arsenal and French champions Monaco have agreed a 5 year deal in principle over the £92m January transfer of midfielder Thomas Lemar, per the Daily Star.
The 21-year-old would be signing a contract worth an estimated £250,000-a-week, with Arsene Wenger telling associates that the deal does not solely rely on the Gunners losing Alexis Sanchez in the same window.
However Wenger will likely have to accept the option of losing Alexis - who's contract runs out at the end of the campaign - in a cut price deal to Manchester City, potentially a deal worth around half the £60m offered towards the summer deadline.
It is widely known that Lemar rejected the advances from the North Londoners on deadline day, but it is believed that logistical issues came to head in the transfer falling through.
The young winger was in action for Didier Deschamps France side against the Netherlands, meaning the player was unable to leave the squad to complete a transfer despite his interest in the move.
Deschamps added that his players were very focussed on their World Cup qualifier match, with Lemar scoring a superb goal that evening.
Speaking in his press conference on Thursday, Wenger spoke about the reasons behind him letting Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain leave for Liverpool in a £35m deal.
Wenger said: "We had to sell someone, we have players we do not want to extend, and we have players we wanted to extend, where we could not find an agreement.
"Every time you have to quantify the loss of income. And at the end of the day, you decide, ok, we can do it for two or three, but not for four or five.”
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