The Gunners have been outspent by rivals Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea this summer and have so far failed to secure deals for targets Shkodran Mustafi, Jamie Vardy and Alexandre Lacazette.
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He also expressed sorrow at the lack of opportunities for former players. While it is a positive news, many Gunners’ fans are starting to think that if this is the reason Arsene Wenger is not signing a striker.
With the Premier League’s new found broadcasting riches dwarfing those in Europe, Wenger believes clubs on the continent are vastly inflating the price tags on players once an English club comes knocking. “They lost only three games previous year and that shows that you can not say that by losing only one player they lose their qualities”. “It’s not so hard to attract players”.
Asked about possible transfers following Arsenal’s 0-0 draw away at Leicester City this evening, Wenger was quoted as saying by the BBC: “I’m a bit fed up to say the same thing, like we do not want to spend. I know we haven’t done as much as many people but we are out there”, he added.
If you look around in Europe, all my friends I call are all looking for centre-backs but they can not find them. If I buy you tomorrow for £45m that means I’ve bought you for £45m, have I done well?
“He will have to find the right balance because if he thinks he will win games by himself that will be a massive mistake for him, if he tries to do something that he can’t do that will be a massive mistake as well”. What I fight against is to tell the only way is to buy.
Having dominated possession at the King Power Stadium, Wenger felt Arsenal should have taken more than a point from the champions.
“It could’ve been April, so we gained two or three months on the last medical check”.
“I must say I got a few signings wrong but it is impossible to make 400 signings and get none wrong”.
The 66-year-old Frenchman, who has been in charge of the Gunners since October 1996, urged the fans to trust his judgement and said he had completed over 400 transfers during his time at Arsenal. But you could see that they were not champions for no reason past year.
“They need to be capable of challenging and will need to be to show if they can be considered as one of the top teams in England”.
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Wenger has been on the lookout to sign a defender but there still hasn’t been any movement on that front.
