Those fees in your link are off. We sold Fab for a reported £35m. Nasri for £25m. So why not buy two marquee players not one?Originally Posted by Letters
Money HAS always been available but the new deals have made a difference too.
That season you're talking about, we lost Fabregas, Nasri, Clichy, Arshavin, Eboue...Bentner.
Signing one marquee player would have left us short.
I don't think anyone would argue that Wenger has got things right in the transfer market but if you're arguing that that new financial deals have made no difference and we could have always done what we did in the last couple of years then I don't agree. The key difference in the last few years is we've signed some big players without selling key players, hence the much bigger net spend.
How do you end up with Gervinho, Ox, Arteta, Park, Merts, Jenks and Santos? Zero marquee players after selling two!. Only Merts and Arteta served any purpose for the first team and people on here still debate their quality.
Is this not making any sense to you? Diluting the quality? And yes, we could have done what we're doing now years ago and quite possibly held on to one or two key players. Heck, you're marbles if you think we couldn't do with a better keeper in those days.
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