Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
What has that got to do with the price of fish (as my mum would say, no idea why)? You're saying money has always been available and that the spending since the new financial deals proves that.
There was a clear difference between our net spend (which is surely the most relevant measure of our financial power) before the new financial deals and after.
I think we can all agree that Wenger has been too cautious in the transfer market but there's no doubt the spending has been different since those deals were in place.
Money has always been available. I'm not talking about net spend or balancing the books. What I'm saying is you can't say we could never afford a player like Ozil, Sanchez or even Cech for crying out loud (£10m).

Go to that season where we bought Gervinho, Ox, Park, Santos, Campbell and that's another example of spreading the costs instead of doing what we're doing this season and signing on one massive marquee player a season. Yes, we had to sell players because they grew tired of winning nothing but replace them with quality and don't dilute the quality. Doing that has a knock on effect where we're forced to then sell RVP the following season. Rinse and repeat.