Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
I'm not sure that's the case, Wenger came out after selling Vermaelen and was asked about replacing him and said that we needed to because it left the defence short.

Kostas Manolas, Sokratis Papastatoupolos were two of the defenders on our radar and as another poster pointed out Manolas joined Roma because they were prepared to pay two million more. So yes if the board sit idly by and let Wenger sit on his hands, prevaricate other a couple of million here and there they are just as culpable as the manager.

The buck stops at the top, they are his employers.....
So the Board were able to 'convince' to spend £30m to £40m on Ozil and Sanchez but couldn't convince him to spend £10m on a defender? Do you know how crazy that sounds?

Wenger may have said we needed defenders but he always makes such statements and does nothing. The money is there available and it's not te Board's job to force him to spend. Alarm bells should have been ringing when he was trying out Monreal as CB in preseason.

Why would they back out of signing a defender in the summer but hand Wenger the funds for the winter window? Also, why did we loan out Jenkinson for the season when we are short on defenders? These are technical decisions.