I have decided to write this under the pretext of highlighting the significance of the financial problems Arsenal faces and which have subsequently affected the team’s performance.
Point: The Arsenal board led by Peter Hill-Wood and Co has failed to deliver on its promise to give Wenger and the fans the supposed budget to buy players.
08/30/2008: Hill-Wood says Arsenal have a lot of money to spend and that Wenger’s critics should stop telling the Frenchman how to do his job. He said: Everyone tells Arsène how to run the place, but no one is a better judge than him. We have a lot of money and enough to spend.
12/19/08: The Arsenal board has made it clear that the funds are available if you want to spend them next month. In fact, some reports have suggested that the Club’s hierarchy has urged Wenger to spend cash. In his pre-game press conference, the coach reiterated that HE has the final decision on possible reinforcements. “Them [the Board] let me do what I want to do, “Wenger said.” I know how much money I can spend and I will try to do it in a smart way. “
12/23/08: Arsène Wenger admits that he is more likely to enter the transfer market next month after Cesc Fabregas’s knee injury. “Yes [I am more likely to buy]But we also have internal solutions, so we are not desperate for that, “Wenger said.
01/02/09: Arsenal president Peter Hill-Wood admits that manager Arsene Wenger has a limited budget for the January market. “I don’t think there is a lot of money anywhere,” Hill-Wood said in the papers. “You have to look ahead, in the future there will probably not be much more money coming in.
04/01/09: The Daily Mail reports that Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is on a collision course with his superiors over the modest transfer budget he has been allocated this winter. The Frenchman is eager to sign Andrei Arshavin, but Zenit St. Petersburg are demanding more than € 20 million for their star striker, a figure the Gunners have so far been unable to match.
The north London club have always maintained that they will back Wenger to the core in the transfer market, though that claim has rarely been proven due to the coach’s low-budget and youth-oriented approach. But now that the former Monaco boss has set his sights on a big money target, Emirates’ board is unwilling to release the funds needed to seal the deal. This is not the first report of friction between Wenger and his bosses to emerge this season. Indeed, it has been whispered that the 59-year-old could break his contract with Arsenal to sign for Real Madrid next summer. That remains the most remote of remote possibilities, but if the Gunners fail to secure qualification for the Champions League this period, currently occupying fifth place in the Premier League table, their longtime coach could consider his options. .
Can we find out where the £ 50 million that the board has promised us is? Where is the support that Wenger was supposedly promised now that we want a player?
