Arsenal have spent almost £1billion on new players under Mikel Arteta but the Gunners boss believes a £27m signing took his team to a ‘different level’.

Arsenal’s productive transfer window last summer took the club’s spending under Arteta’s tenure to over £900m.

Only three Premier League clubs – Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City – have spent more than Arsenal since the start of the 2020-21 season.

But despite the staggering spending, Arteta believes the relatively cheap signing of David Raya helped transform his Gunners team.

Raya’s loan move to the Emirates Stadium came as a surprise given Arsenal already had England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale at the club.

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But Raya soon displaced Ramsdale as Arteta’s No. 1, winning the Golden

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