In this last five or six years, Arsenal went more with this type of technical players.
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And given how the Londoners’ transfer business has gone so far this summer, Vardy swapping shirts with an Arsenal player is likely to be the closest Arsene Wenger gets to bringing in a new striker before deadline day. In today’s insane transfer market that is an admirable, but hard to justify with the revenues that Arsenal are bringing in – including some of the highest ticket prices in the land.
Meanwhile, they also failed with a player-plus-cash deal for Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain, which would have seen Olivier Giroud move the other way. Be careful what you believe though.
Petr Cech was the only significant arrival ahead of the 2015-16 campaign, with Mohamed Elneny joining in January from Basel.
The boss said, “I believe a club like ours is focused on giving chances to the players we develop in our own club”. He’s being really courageous not bringing in players who don’t fit the system he wants to play or aren’t of the value he seeks.
“I quite admire that, in the world where some clubs have so much money, they go and buy players who are 40 million pounds and are worth 10 million”, Vieira, who captained Wenger’s last title-winning team in 2004, told British media. Arsenal are the first team-with Manchester City of course-that I watch.
Against all opponents a year ago, Arsenal won eight of 19 matches but it was the bigger games they, again, struggled in as they dominated the bottom-half finishers: W7-D2-L1. “I find it a little bit disappointing not having ex-Arsenal players working at Arsenal”, he says.
“Players want to do it and, not having the opportunity, they feel disappointed”, he said.
“The ideal example is Ajax”. The door’s always open for them.
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It is not as if Arsenal fans need another stick with which to beat Arsene Wenger after a frustrating summer in the transfer market and one point from the opening two games of the season.
