cos he's seen the financial problems they've dug themselves into, but more importantly, imo, he hasn't seen any players he thinks will improve the team that he can get for a reasonable amount.
i think part of that has to do with the departure of dein, they seemed to have a good friendship , and good working relationship.
wenger isnt afraid to spend money as hes done it in the past , more recently look at the prices he paid for walcott and ramsey, i just don't think he will put up with being ripped off.
there is no financial problem at all. We make MORE profit AFTER paying the interest on the loans than we did before. Once the loan is paid back we'll be making the more profit aswell as the extra profit not paying back loans. We are FAR better off financially than we were before. We sell out every game easily and because of the size/quality of the venue and the much larger conference centre type stuff our non match day income has been significantly increased. For instance X-factor(as much as it shamed me) was filmed at the Emirates, which wouldn't have happened previously at HIghbury, the Brazil vs Argentina game, which I went to and enjoyed thoroughly, would NEVER have been held at Highbury, which was an extra 60k tickets worth of income that we otherwise would not have made.
As for not finding the right players, there is far better defensive midfielders than we have now available. He'd been tracking KOmpany for years and years, and decided against him, 5mil, I'm not sure how good he is, but he's versatile, pretty cheap, FAR better than denilson and song at centreback or def midfield and can play both and would clearly have helped us this year.
Also, for non starters frankly Ramsey and Theo were quite expensive. We have to buy a defensive midfielder, theres no question. But it was plainly obvious in preseason and up till the transfer deadline and he still didn't get anyone up till then. I understand that you don't want to spend huge on someone that might end up average at best. But spending 5 mil on someone like Kompany would have been very well spent.
I pray to god he buys SOMEONE for the position. But the longer he leaves it the more we're going to get screwed on whoever we buy as people know we're utterly desperate. The other worrying thing is, we haven't had a backup or reserve defensive midfield for a while either, we've got no one at really any level at the club suited to the role at all. He hasn't bought in any youth players for a few years for our reserves, under 19's or any other level. He's just buying attacking central midfielders at every level and trying to force them into other roles.
He blooming said today he wants Wilshire to be the next Bergkamp central attacking just off the striker. So yet another very promising winger he's going to shoehorn into being attacking. Merida is a central player really for that role, and we're being linked all over with the Leeds kid who apparently plays the same position aswell. At some point you have to buy players built for the position you need.
It worried me we didn't replace any DM's, but worried me further he didn't get any free youth players for the future for the position, he just doesn't act like he remotely wants a DM anymore.
) Owen's bottle went and desperation to return to England took over as he couldn't risk losing his England spot by sitting on the bench at Real and accepted the only offer on the table.