Originally Posted by
Boss
I hope we're in for Samba/Cahill but we were linked with the same duo last year and signed absolute garbage instead. Wenger has to spend money, much more than he's been spending, but he also has to spend it wisely, something he's not been doing over the last few years. We spend 14M on garbage defenders who have no idea how to play in the English league and weaken our defense doing it, and then Wenger spouts nonsense like 12-15M for Samba/Cahill/whoever is too much. We start the season with Almunia/Fabianski/Chezza in goal because Wenger's too stubborn to spend 2M on a PL trusted GK, we start the season before that with Denilson/Diaby as two of our first teamers because Wenger's too stubborn to spend 2M more on a PL class midfielder (Alonso).
What Wenger seems to fail to realise is that by constantly buying cheap, it ends up very expensive over the long run, constantly buying replacements (or screwing the team's performance because he doesn't) and the constant chopping and changing makes it hard to build a stable team. At this point last season we had spent almost as much as United on CBs since they bought Ferdinand, but we had far more partnerships in that time and a far less stable defense.
A good player will pay for itself over the long run, and if it's what we need Wenger should be willing to push the boat out. Everyone's getting tired of us signing project players who either completely fail (costing us while they do) or take so long coming good that they're on the verge of looking for a new club by the time they reach a suitable level.
