Arsenal are working on a deal to sign Sweden midfielder Kim Kallstrom on loan until the end of the season from Russian club Spartak Moscow.
The 31-year-old would provide cover for the injured Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere, with Mathieu Flamini suspended for the next three games. Gunners boss Arsene Wenger ruled out buying Schalke's Julian Draxler, but revealed he wanted a new midfielder
We are trying to bring one body in because of Ramsey's setback," he said.
Arsenal are confident the transfer of Kallstrom will be completed by the 23:00 GMT deadline. He joined Spartak in 2012 following a six-year spell with Lyon, where he played more than 200 games and helped the French side to the Champions League semi-finals in 2010
Wenger added: "We've been hit by the red card of Flamini and Jack Wilshere is also not available so in the area where we had plenty of players, suddenly we are a bit short."
Draxler, 20, who has played 10 times for Germany, was linked with a move to Arsenal and reportedly would have cost £37m.
He helped Schalke qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League earlier this season, where his side will play Real Madrid over two legs in February and March. "The Draxler situation has been created by the newspapers, not by me. He will stay at Schalke," said Wenger
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