By all info we have available, Wenger had MORE than enough money for at least one of M'vila/Hazard, and went for neither, he may have had money for the both of them though we spent a surprisingly large amount once you add in Gervinho/AOC, its not far off 50mil, but we had circa 100mil available(and I think more than that, if you look at Arsenal's cash in hand we basically had 100mil+ on the books on top of that, it generates interest for the club and its not ideal to dip into it, but its there and a manager with Wenger's pull could loosen the purse strings a bit.
But you can see where Arsenal are, look at Cesc for Barca, he's been 10x more effective, playing the same football himself, because of the guys around him, thats how far Arsenal are from Barca now.
The info that Wenger got them to accept a lower offer is nuts, and another reason the delusional fool should be fired. I've said for a while, he's better than Iniesta, he's a better goal scorer than Xavi, and assister and very good defensively, in all the transfer that happened in the past 5 years, I'd ONLY place him below Ronaldo in value/quality of players who have moved and we should have been looking at 60mil for him. This rubbish about being worth less because only Barca offered, firstly, if we said he was for sale last year and put a 50-60mil price on his head when Barca had more money, we'd have got it, its as simple as that. Every single player there and the manager knows exactly how good he is. This isn't bringing home a friend, Guardiola knew when Cesc was 13 that he was going to be freaking epic in the future.
But we fannied around, let them spend their money on other players, if Barca knew 6 months ago Cesc could go for 60mil, I think they wouldn't have bought Sanchez and would have saved it all for Cesc.
We also could still have accepted a big offer from City, knowing Cesc wouldn't actually agree to go there, which would have forced Barca to offer more. We played it all wrong, and the main man to do that was again, Wenger.
he's STILL buying players that suit a 4-4-2, and still playing half of them out of position, and refusing to drop people who are consistantly useless for 70-80%+ of every single game, while refusing to play people on the bench who are always good.
ANYTHING is possible, but I think the chance of Wenger turning it around again at this stage is so so small that we have to cut our losses because every single transfer window he's commiting us to worse players, long term, on bigger and bigger wages, who simply aren't good enough.
How many times do we get screwed by him in transfers, offers 8mil for Jones, they ask 10, we miss out, offer 22mil for M'vila, they want 30, bet they would have taken 25, we miss out, could have got Hazard 3 years ago at half the cost, we miss out, could have got Ronaldo, we offer a few mil less, we miss out, over and over and over.
had we offered what, a total of 10mil extra on 3 of those guys, how much better would Arsenal have been and be now, for 10mil, but we can spend up to 15mil on AOC and Theo.
