Is money still a problem, or is it Wenger?

[Penguin]

Wenger knows what hes doing.

Depends what you mean by knowing what he's doing. If you mean keeping us in the top four every year, building teams within our own financial means and showing us an attractive style of football, then yes you're right. I don't take that lightly. Other managers have won trophies but failed to finish in the top four (like Benitez).

If you mean winning trophies, learning from his/our mistakes and building on our weaknesses then you're wrong. He hasn't done any of that for the best part of a decade. Only the first part has anything to do with money.

[I am invisible]

If our bids for Suarez and Lars Bender had been successful then our spend would have smashed the hundred million barrier, so I really don't think there's a stubbornness issue here - I'd chalk our lack of other impressive signings up to a) struggling to sell the club to the very best players after 7 or 8 years of looking like a selling club with no ambition, and b) wasting too much time chasing the wrong targets (or target)...

[IBK]

Cesc was a special case, rvc and nasri were in the last year of their contracts.

No way he would have sold Suarez. Not a single chance.

Don't know what that view is based on. It cannot be denied that Wenger will sell his very best players, and he is prepared to let them go to the competition. This has happened consistently - and the trigger is usually a player's public desire to leave. With Suarez's record, and a 40M payday I'd say everything we know about Wenger says he'd have sold.

[IBK]

If our bids for Suarez and Lars Bender had been successful then our spend would have smashed the hundred million barrier, so I really don't think there's a stubbornness issue here - I'd chalk our lack of other impressive signings up to a) struggling to sell the club to the very best players after 7 or 8 years of looking like a selling club with no ambition, and b) wasting too much time chasing the wrong targets (or target)...

Well, I'm not at all sure we'd have stumped up 42M for Ozil had we already spent 40M on Suarez

[GP]

Don't know what that view is based on. It cannot be denied that Wenger will sell his very best players, and he is prepared to let them go to the competition. This has happened consistently - and the trigger is usually a player's public desire to leave. With Suarez's record, and a 40M payday I'd say everything we know about Wenger says he'd have sold.

Only when he's over a barrel, as with rvc and nasri.

Vieira pined for a move every year, but Wenger only sold when he was done with him.

You're wrong on this one.

[IBK]

Only when he's over a barrel, as with rvc and nasri.

Vieira pined for a move every year, but Wenger only sold when he was done with him.

You're wrong on this one.

Perhaps...but remember that with Suarez there is also his baggage. I think there are arguments both ways.

[GP]

Maybe, but Wenger had no issue with putting over £40m on the table for him, I just don't think there's any way he would have sold him.

We don't need to sell any more, as we have previously.

[milla]

If our bids for Suarez and Lars Bender had been successful then our spend would have smashed the hundred million barrier, so I really don't think there's a stubbornness issue here - I'd chalk our lack of other impressive signings up to a) struggling to sell the club to the very best players after 7 or 8 years of looking like a selling club with no ambition, and b) wasting too much time chasing the wrong targets (or target)...

Must make another bid for Lars Bender next summer. Striker, RB and DM are a must IMO.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I think we should splash the cash, get in Alan Smith from Leicester City and Brian Marwood from Sheffield Wednesday.....make sure that come near the end of the season we don't have to play a ridiculous fixture like Liverpool away needing a 2-0 win

[hymppi]

Must make another bid for Lars Bender next summer. Striker, RB and DM are a must IMO.

Didn't he just sign a new contract? Or was it the other Bendy?