We're somewhat hindered but that new wage rule, I'm not sure Liverpool were affected by that so they were able to invest, on top of that they managed to sell 1 or 2 players for mega money, something we won't be able to do as we don't have players of huge value.

To be honest Wenger left us in a right state, we also should have got rid of him a few years ago when these new rules weren't in place but we were so slow to react we're paying for it now.

We can still free up some wages if we don't qualify for the CL by losing Ramsey, Xhaka, Mustafi, Mhiki, Iwobi and of course Ozil (maybe even Koscielny and Cech) if we could find a buyer for those guys (which may be a problem in itself), but we're not in an ideal situation.

Agree with the comment that there's a lot of quality in the top 4 and that's going to make it hard for us to break into it. We have a chance in the Europa league of course but Chelsea are still in there as well which is a worry.