Souness slams Arteta for wasting 'big money' with Arsenal now too skint to fix their biggest 'problem'

Graeme Souness has criticised Collection supervisor Mikel Arteta for wasting “substantial greenback greenback money” on Kai Havertz as soon as he has Emile Smith Rowe in his squad.

Arteta controversially signed Havertz from London rivals Chelsea in the summertime season, investings about £60million on the German.

Havertz took a while to bring upward to pace in Arteta’s tool yet reaped a purple patch in November and December.

Despite a decent rushed of form, the jury is still out on the signing, and by means of Collection presently incapable to manage a brand-neoteric demonstrator, the signing of Havertz is as soon as again in the spotlight.

One gamer who has not benefitted from the addition is Hale End grad and disciple favorite Smith Rowe.

The 23-year-worn has single initiated twice across with one voice challengers this period, by means of the mass of his aesthetic appeals unborn off the pew late on in matches in which the Artillerymans are chasing a unprejudiced.

Smith Rowe is a substantial justification Arteta is still at the nightclub owning shimmered during the Spaniard’s most arduous time in penalty at the Emirates.

Despite this, injury crises and signings in his pose are substantially hosting him ago.

He has been tied by means of an run away this month by means of Aston Vacation abode, Newcastle Unified and Chelsea apparently keen and Souness filter how Smith Rowe plays.

The previous Heavens Sports veteran has reviewed the signing of Havertz by means of Smith Rowe with one voice seated to impress Arteta.

Souness oriented talkSPORT: “Smith Rowe? I like him. As a midfield gamer sprinting correct into the box, clever establishes, everything seems to be performed as soon as he is sprinting which I like. Purpose menace.

“After that you go spend £60million, Arteta. So the time I yearn to gain is that £60m, I assume is a mart objection, you’ve invested.”

Souness included that the greenback greenback money would have been much more detailed invested on a demonstrator, which is the pose Arteta needs to improve more than any kind of other.

“You recognized what I am on about, putting up a football group, you try to improve the weakest part of your group,” he included.

“I assume for most humans, Collection essential an additional demonstrator by means of [Gabriel] Jesus.

“So you go and confiscate Kai Havertz from Chelsea for substantial greenback greenback money as soon as distinctly you’ve got a homegrown gamer that is every tiny as nice as him.

“So that £60m need to have been possibly directed towards a demonstrator and that can expenditure them, a various sort of demonstrator.

“We were chatting about [Ivan] Toney. As soon as you are amassing a gamer, you are trying to confiscate out the wrangle. Why would he not be successful here?

“So if he is a foreigner, will most certainly he tackle a various society, will most certainly his family tackle that, will most certainly he pick upward the language quickly enough, will most certainly be able to tackle the severity of the English arcade?

“So you try and confiscate out one of them.”

Brentford demonstrator Toney is being delightfully tied by means of a responses to the Emirates yet the Bees apparently yearn £100m to sell their celeb person this month.

Napoli’s Victor Osimhen is an additional gamer Arteta apparently filter. He has lately signed a brand-neoteric contract which involves a £112m run away decision.