LONDON : Arsene Wenger is planning to ignore the January sales because he believes Arsenal have enough strength in depth to last the pace in the Premier League title race.

Wenger will be without Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Eboue for a month in the New Year while the defenders play at the African Nations Cup.

The transfer window opens in January but the Gunners boss feels he has enough cover and doesn’t want to sign a player who would be consigned to the reserves when Toure and Eboue return in February.

“Kolo Toure goes off to the African Nations Cup shortly and we may lose Alex Song for it as well,” Wenger said.

“Even with Johan Djourou returning from Birmingham we would then be left with three specialist centre-backs.

“If I signed another one we’d have too many after the African Nations. Sometimes you just have to suffer during the tournament and let your players play.” – AFP/de

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