The north London club suffered another blow when Gabriel Paulista suffered an injury in Arsenal’s friendly tie against Manchester City. The Arsenal manager refused to criticise the official after the match but it was clear Wenger was unhappy that added time was played.
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“This season, we can’t let that happen and if we don’t let that happen we can be champions”.
Liverpool trio Daniel Sturridge, James Milner and Marko Grujic are racing to be fit for Sunday’s Premier League opener against Arsenal.
But Mustafi could cost as much as £30 million and multiple reports have the Gunners balking about signing a defender anywhere close to that expensive.
Per Mertesacker is going to miss at least four months and Laurent Koscielny is unavailable for the start of the season because of a lack of fitness following his post-Euros summer break.
Because with the Emirates Stadium outfit now boasting enough sums of money to sign some of the players their rivals have, why would you choose to not invest more freely?
He will be out for next week, and we are very short at centre back’.
“Everybody’s ambitious, never has the Premier League been gifted with so many ambitious people or clubs at the start of the season”, Wenger told Arsenal Player.
When speaking of his selection for the Liverpool game, Wenger stated (according to the Metro): “It [the Man City game] will contribute”.
Even world class players like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Arjen Robben or Robert Lewandowski are not playing in the premier league. “Of course we will look to add, we are working on it, but until Sunday I have to find an internal solution and an efficient solution”. We’re all good, everyone’s good, everyone’s smiling and everyone’s happy.
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“When you lose only three games in a season in a hard league like that, you are a fantastic champion”.
