But spending the money in itself is not a quality.
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Leicester lost its opening game last week to Hull City but Arsenal also went down 4-3 to Liverpool at home.
“I think he is one of them who is not completely ready physically”, Wenger said.
The fact that Wenger sat at a podium that read “Leicester City Football Club” made the comments sound even more absurd.
Responding to a question referencing the disgruntled away support he added; “Fans are hugely influenced by the media”.
“I’m disappointed not to have ex-Arsenal players working at Arsenal”, said Vieira.
“I am not against spending”.
“If I buy you tomorrow for 45 million, I’ve spent 45 million”. It is surprising that you come out of football games and you don’t speak about football games, you have to speak about money. They got many penalties a year ago.
Wenger has hinted that he’ll take a gamble on Laurent Koscielny so the French worldwide should line-up in defence with Calum Chambers arguably the favourite to keep his place ahead of Rob Holding.
“You can pay huge amounts of money for average players, there are plenty of those, but to find the ones who will strengthen your squad is more hard”. They don’t want to hear about the employees at the club, nor do they want to hear about only buying players of the right “quality”, which is seemingly Wenger’s favorite word to repeat whenever the topic arrives.
It is a case of ground-hog day for Arsenal’s fans, who saw Wenger make just one major signing – the 10 million pounds acquisition of goalkeeper Petr Cech from Chelsea – in last year’s close-season transfer period.
The Gunners have built up substantial cash reserves, but are reluctant to commit to paying large sums for players, something which has seen Wenger and the club come in for criticism. “The ideal example is Ajax when you see all the old players working for the club”.
“You should be happy”.
“We are very active, and if we find the right candidates we will spend big money. He’s English. He’s 20 years old”. But he had a good rest, I gave him five weeks.
“I would like to reassure you that we are not afraid to spend the money we have and we are working very hard”, he continued.
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“When you are talking about Thierry, Ljungberg, Robert Pires, Keown, they are well respected in the club, they have been professional players and good examples for the kids, all of them doing their badges, so that means they really want to do it”.
