Analyzing the transfer business of the Premier League's top 6 teams

#6 Arsenal

Mkhitaryan will aim to be Arsenal's new talisman

Key In(s):

Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United, swap deal); Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund, £55m)

Key Out(s):

Francis Coquelin (Valencia, undisclosed); Theo Walcott (Everton, £20m); Alexis Sanchez (Manchester United, swap deal); Olivier Giroud (Chelsea, £18m)

What was set to be a grim transfer window for Arsenal has turned out to be somewhat positive. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a more than average replacement for Alexis Sanchez and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will add firepower to the attack.

Mesut Özil signing a new contract is a huge boost. Of course, only time will tell whether Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang can recapture the magic they produced at Borussia Dortmund, but they will certainly make the attack more potent.

They also cleared some deadwood with the sales of Coquelin, Walcott, and Debuchy. However, their failure to strengthen the defence, which has time and again been their Achilles' heel, combined with losing their talisman in Alexis Sanchez may well prove to be costly in the fight to get back into the Champions League.