Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has vowed to look right through the January transfer window.

The Gunners are now emerging as genuine contenders for the title after a stuttering start to the season, with Sunday's 4-0 win at Reading their fifth successive Premiership victory.

Wenger has seen Chelsea and Manchester United outspend him regularly in recent seasons but insists he will not even be looking for a bargain when the transfer window reopens in just over two months' time.

The Gunners have been linked with France World Cup star Franck Ribery but if the midfielder is to pull on a red and white shirt in the future it will not be this season, according to his fellow countryman.

He said: "We have a squad and we will not buy in January. We will keep with the squad until the end of the season. In January we will jump over the transfer window."

The Frenchman expects two of his injured players, Lauren and Abou Diaby, to be back in action by then anyway with summer signing Julio Baptista now only a couple of weeks away from a return.

Arsenal are in Carling Cup third-round action at West Brom tomorrrow night and Wenger will use the fixture to give games to a clutch of players who are either recently recovered from injury or used only occasionally anyway.

Defender Philippe Senderos will play for the first time since dislocating a shoulder in World Cup action for Switzerland in June and Manuel Almunia, Gael Clichy, Mathieu Flamini, Alexandre Song and Jeremie Aliadiere are all set for starts in a line-up featuring England's Theo Walcott and Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor as the attacking threats.