Thing is though it doesn't matter when we bought Park, we had plenty of time to sign someone before if we wanted them.
As for players not wanting to come, with Wenger in charge probably true after all who wants to play for a guy who openly admits that winning isn't important and who accepts laughable collapses every season without changing anything...however if you don't try you don't get, bet you would have never thought West Ham could have signed Tevez and Mascherano.