Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis feels the protracted transfer of Andrei Arshavin became tiresome for everybody.

Confirmation the Russia international had completed his move to the Gunners was not officially announced by the Premier League club until late on Tuesday afternoon - almost 24 hours after the transfer deadline.

"We probably bored everybody, and I think everyone got a bit tired of the ongoing story," Gazidis told Arsenal TV Online.

"It took longer than anybody would have wanted to get to a conclusion, but we got there in the end.

"People dramatise these things a little bit.

"It was never on until it finally got done, but it was not on and off through the day either.

"Certainly it went closer to the deadline than I would have liked, but sometimes you have to do that to finally push it over the finish line."