Interesting point about the manager to put a director back in his place, Globalgunner. But it's nothing we haven't seen before with PHW's infamous war chest stories. The fans would often get told Wenger would have funds to spend but when he didn't spend it, the backlash would go back on the Board and they'd often take a lot of flack for Wenger's inactivity. We may not have had unlimited funds but we had funds and I believe we'd go into a season looking thin and under strength because Wenger employs this risky deadline day strategy. Trying to pick up bargain deals on the basis that we're taking on cast away players that have to be moved on by their clubs. It's how we ended up with Welbeck and Ozil. I'm sure he'll have plenty of funny stories and anecdotes about these last dash scramble deals but I wish we weren't gambling like this at crucial moments and he has often referred to the window as a game like Chess or Poker.

It's not wise for Lord Harris to spew so much about our finances to the public but if the fans were still unaware of our new financial deals and kept in the dark about our spending power, I'm sure the Board would be taking a lot of heat right now for not spending. Gazidis used to get it often. We've seen it before. Forecast pages printed claiming we're broke. Theories about all our money being spent on Ozil and Sanchez with crazy mathematical sums suggesting both players have cost us £150bn and whatever else because of agency fees, lawyers fees, shoelace fees... At least we really know the club is in good shape with money to compete and if things fall apart for us this season the spotlight falls on one man. Ambiguous language about our finances can no longer be accepted.