Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is sitting on a £57 million transfer war chest that he will spend in the summer, according to a report in The Mirror.
The revelation comes the day after a miserable week for Wenger where The Gunners were humiliated by AC Milan in a 4-0 disgrace at the San Siro that all but ends their Champions League hopes this year, before the hapless side crashed out of the FA Cup last night without as much as a whimper to Sunderland.
Now as the fan outcry gets louder against Wenger’s reluctance to change his stubborn mindset and transfer policy, comes the news that he will be ready to spend the large budget he has accumulated from the sales of Cesc Fabregas ($35 million to Barcelona) and Samir Nasri ($22 million to Manchester City) last summer.
It is believed the player’s Wenger did buy last August – Per Mertesacker, Mikel Arteta, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Andre Santos – were all bought with funds that Wenger had accumulated over the years previous to the Nasri/Fabregas sales and he has £57 million at his disposal to buy the kind of players that are the finished quality and not just prospects/fill-ins.
Arsenal hierarchy will allow Wenger the opportunity to attract the world’s best by scrapping their £100,000 a week wage cap, and also hope that they can make star man Robin Van Persie the kind of offer that will keep him at the club with reports of interest elsewhere. Players like Nasri, Fabregas, Clichy and Kolo Toure all left Arsenal for salary offers way beyond that.
At this point if Wenger is still at the club past through this season he will need to bring in some superstar signings to please the fans who are disgusted with their downfall. The likes of Eden Hazard of Lille and Mario Goetze of Borussia Dortmund are being spoken of.
Former Manchester United legend Roy Keane said whilst working punditry for ITV last night during their defeat to Sunderland;
“This is the worst Arsenal team I have seen in my time watching football. There is a lack of desire and a lack of passion.”
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5 Comments
For arsenal is to sign fabregas back and eden hazard.
So we can show how to beat ac milan.
Sorry to burst your bubble but we won’t sign/resign any of them. The best we can hope for in the transfer window is to keep RVP and that probably won’t happen. The only way arsenal will reign again is if we get rid of Stan ‘no plan’ Kroenke.
arsenal should buy chiellini, aly cissokho, nigel de jong, sahin and demba ba. Sell the flops like arshavin, squillachi, djhorou,rosicky, denilson, ramsey, bentdner walcott etc. should come to 57 mil.
we should also play 4-1-3-2.
Szczesney, cissokho, chiellini, Kosh/verm, sagna, de jong, song(as a cm) wilshere, sahin, van persie, demba ba.
Need to buy some British players who show some fight and passion for the shirt not worrying about what shirt they’re be wearing later when they go out on Saturday night
Also if Wenger wasn’t so scared of spending the money we’ve given him as fans do every week going to the grounds, home and away
He would see by spending the money and getting the right players we would win trophys and the money would still roll in
90% of the squad are rubbish and should be sold