Arsenal’s priority will be to keep best players, not splash the cash, says Wenger

1 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger insists his priority will be to keep the Arsenal team together at the end of the season and says they will not need a major overhaul of the squad during the summer.

The north London club have seen their title hopes disappear in recent months and they have only got the FA Cup left to play for.

Despite smashing their transfer record to sign Mesut Ozil last summer, the club have failed to maintain their position at the top of the table and have crashed to big defeats against Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Everton.

“Let’s see first how we finish, but we have the basics,” said the Frenchman, who has yet to sign the offer of a new contract extension.

“What is important for us is we have our players back and available.

“Our main task will be to keep the team together and think ‘where did we go wrong?’ because there’s a lot of positives in our season as well.

“We have been the league leader 17 times and we dropped off when we lost our players at the important moment of the season, that is what we don’t want to repeat.”