The Gunners boss has been widely criticised by Arsenal fans for a lack of activity in the transfer market, with the £30million signing of Granit Xhaka in May not followed up by further big-name acquisitions.
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The Gunners beat Leicester home and away in the Premier League last season despite Claudio Ranieri’s side winning the Premier League title.
Wenger added: “Aaron Ramsey should be back after the global break”. “It’s a very hard situation to sort out because the players come back late because of the Euros and, on top of that, you play them and they get injured”.
The north London club, who were last crowned Premier League champions back in 2004, are estimated to have cash reserves in the region of £200 million ($263 million, 232 million euros).
“I focus on my job and do exactly 100% what I think is right”.
Arsene Wenger’s men suffered a humiliating defeat in their first game of the season on Sunday as Theo Walcott missed a penalty in the first half but made amends by scoring a goal merely 90 seconds later.
Finally, I admire Wenger’s radical and idealistic approach, but in order for him to be beneficial for Arsenal, he has to read the new era in football accurately. The clubs always pay for the fact that the players played in these tournaments. “Today my center is not all that much on transfer since we have a critical redirection in 48 hours and to win this game, exchanges won’t help us”.
“You can play huge amounts of money for average players – there are plenty of those – but to find the ones who will strengthen your squad, that is more hard”. I’ve done over 400 transfers, and I know how every transfer is written.
However, despite repeated questions from reporters, Wenger refused to be drawn on any individual players. We have plenty of players who want to join us and I would say that even with the players who left, 99.5 per cent of the players have asked to come back even when they left. It is right when you buy.
“I gave [Koscielny] a holiday at the start because I thought that we have Gabriel and Mertesacker”. You are not the only person to decide on [them]’. “But if an English club comes he is worth 35 or 40 or 50”.
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“In the long term, that will mean that the financial advantage the English clubs have will drop because they will be on their wage list”.
