Arsenal can secure £100m transfer windfall with seven deals before deadline day

Arsenal have yet to sanction a significant sale during this year's summer transfer window despite their focus now being on outgoings rather than incomings.

Marquinhos and Nuno Tavares are the only players they have sold thus far - to Cruzeiro and Lazio, respectively. However, their combined transfer fees barely amount to £10million.

Last summer saw close to ten times that figure recouped for Aaron Ramsdale, Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe. But Arsenal now find themselves in a weakened negotiating position due to a lack of interest in their players and the pressure of moving on several fringe squad members.

Six first-team players did not even make the matchday squad for their first match of the Premier League season against Manchester United. Of those, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Fabio Vieira and Karl Hein did not play in their pre-season friendlies after returning from loan spells elsewhere last season.

Sevilla had an option to buy the former. However, they did not take up that opportunity after hamstring injuries hampered his time in Spain.

Hein, however, was ever-present for Real Valladolid until a Spring shoulder injury kept him out for half a dozen games. Levante are said to have shown interest, albeit in another loan rather than a permanent move.

Stuttgart have talks ongoing over Vieira after a positive return to Porto. Discussions with the Portuguese club are also said to have happened about Jakub Kiwior.

He, like Leandro Trossard, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Reiss Nelson, could also depart Arsenal permanently. Fulham have shown interest in re-signing the latter, while European and Premier League clubs are credited with holding an interest in the other two.

Those seven players have a combined value on transfermarkt of just over £100million. Arsenal must now hope to recoup somewhere close to that eight-figure sum over this summer transfer window's remaining days - and if they do sell them all then another marquee addition may just happen too.

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