He played for the Emirates side for 10 seasons and won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups with the Gunners.
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The 30-year-old made his first appearance of the season at the King Power Stadium after returning to the Gunners late after helping France to the final of Euro 2016.
Arsene Wenger has come under heavy verbal attack from fans and media as who are expecting him to invest into the squad which finished second last campaign. “I believe that you have to respect the players who play, the performance that has been done today by those teams and if you find players who can strengthen our team, then we are not reluctant to spend the money”.
Wenger has been heavily criticised for his lack of signings this summer with just Granit Xhaka, Takuma Asano and Rob Holding arriving so far, but speaking after the goalless draw with Leicester the Gunners boss revealed another new man was on his way. “Arsenal are always going to be one of the teams who can win the title because of the way they play but at the same time they will be disappointed losing games they should win”.
“In our generation we had some fantastic players with the ball but the majority of the players were quite physically strong”.
“I think it is worth to try as he has the quality to go behind”, Wenger said about the Chile forward, who has mainly been used as a winger since joining Arsenal from Barcelona two years ago. Nigeria No. 1 Online Portal.
He said: ‘Now when I watch Arsenal, yes they play good football. Spending and buying the right players is a quality.
Patrick Vieira believes Arsenal need to sign players who have a physical presence as well as flair.
“Why not? At the moment I am not concerned about that too much, I am more focused on us responding well to Sunday’s defeat”, he said.
Arséne Wenger: “What matters to me is when you have a club with 600 employees you have the money to pay them at the end of the month”. I don’t understand that. “I’m sure every other team is the same”, he added.
“Spending the money buying a top player is different and we are ready to do it”.
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Wenger is confident that by using Sanchez as a striker he will make best use of his physical energy rather than having him chasing the opposition right-back all game.
