Exactly, im pretty sure last year he said that if he wanted a player for £30mill+ the Arsenal board would let him spend it but now 6 mths on hes backtracking saying that we need to bank 15-20mill before spending....hmmm i wonder what happened to the money that we made from Fabregas and Nasri being sold....probably in the back pockets of silent Stan and the rest of the board
Another lolworthy rumour is that we might look at poaching Daniel Sturridge from Chelsea in the summer
You missed out the lolworthy part, the rumour is saying Sturridge is "unhappy" at being played out wide...... so Arsenal is the first place you go to get played in the middle every game.
Reyes, Bendtner, Chamakh, Rosicky, Arshavin, Vela, Eduardo, Theo are the ones off the top of my head that joined as "central" players and mostly strikers who ended up forced out wide. Yup, Arsenal is where I'd choose, the majority of those players have also had their career harmed by coming to Arsenal expecting to be a central/attacking/striker, while the only one who is doing WAY better than he should be(money, team, league wise) is the one guy who can't play football at all, its hilarious.
In terms of the money we suddenly need to buy anyone, the answer is wages.
We only got rid of Cesc, Nasri, Eboue and Clichy, for who wages were probably in the region of 80-100k for Cesc, 40-50 for Nasri, 60k Eboue and 60k Clichy maybe.
We however bought in, Arteta, 60k ish, Mertesacker, 80k, Gervinho probably around the 60k mark, Dos Santos, 60-70k(coming from a high wage paying league that people only go to for money), Park, probably 20-30k( he already had other offers), Chamberlain 30k maybe(and that will probably rise quite quickly), Campbell 15-20k, Jenks on 15-20k.
So we've gone from about 14mil in wages to 18.5mil, a 4.5mil wage difference over a few years add's up, signing on bonuses, wage rise, and thats before you realise we probably spunked a good 3mil on the wage for Benny for the year, probably a loan fee on top of that, no idea what we're paying for Henry. Tied a few people down to new contracts. It all add's up to Wenger increasing our wage burden, while making the squad weaker, and well, more wages = less profit = less to spend on players the next year.
THe problem being, we've got Bendtner, Vela, Chamakh, Arshavin and really a bunch of other guys out on loan or basically not playing, sucking wages down, most desparate to leave and most clubs no where near willing to match their asking price or current excessive wage which is why none of those guys left, that and Wenger not wanting them to leave.
This is why I was 100% dead set against getting Chamakh on a supposedly free transfer, which costs you huge in wages over a contract, and when it was clear as day he'd never get used long term. 20mil down the drain basically. Its all the little 2mil here and 2mil there, on a dozen players that don't get involved at all, that is killing Arsenal in terms of profit and buying power.
Seriously what other team can go from Cesc, Nasri, Clichy, Eboue, to Arteta, Gervinho, Dos Santos and Jenks/mertesacker, pay more in wages for a significantly worse set of players..... every year for 6-7 years now we've got rid of GREAT players, and bought in MUCH worse players..... on higher wages.
Hell, look at Newcastle again for exactly how Arsenal could have been run, buy great players on low wages, no we buy crap players on high wages, genius
why sign him 
(forgot more than one Cisse in the prem)
