Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke remains determined to still keep both Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil and is adamant that the club can attract the world’s best players even after falling out of the Champions League.

Sanchez and Ozil have so far refused all offers to extend their contracts but, following their performance alongside Alexandre Lacazette in Sunday’s 5-2 win against Everton, Kroenke still hopes that the club’s attacking spearhead will remain together next year.

“We want to attract top players, keep top players and those guys are top players,” he said. “I watched them on Sunday and they looked really good and played really, really, really well. We’d love to keep them. It takes two to dance; we’ll keep working to keep our top talent and to attract more talent but some of the guys we’ve got are looking pretty good.”

Kroenke pointed out how Arsenal had beaten Manchester City and Chelsea at Wembley last season in response to whether the club could still compete with their richest opponents but acknowledged that it “remains to be seen” whether football can enforce rules to equalise spending .

“We beat Manchester City on the home stretch,” he said. “There are rules that try to level it (spending) out. In the United States you have one jurisdiction - over here you have multiple jurisdictions and it’s challenging, but it’s been challenging since we first became involved. Money helps. We’d rather have it than not.