Arsenal have reported a half-yearly turnover of about £148.5 million and despite bringing down an influx of players in Danny Welbeck, Alexis Sanchez and the likes, the Gunners reportedly have cash reserves amounting to 138.8 million. They have also paid off their Emirates Stadium debt and that leaves Arsene Wenger with a £50 million summer warchest.

Though it is hard to believe that a club like Arsenal will only have a warchest equal to what Chelsea paid for Fernando Torres, it looks more than enough when the quality of footballers at Emirates Stadium is taken into consideration.

Though Francis Coquelin has succeeded in making Arsenal supporters forget the defensive midfielder crisis, Arsene Wenger is determined to bring down a world-class defensive midfielder to operate in the middle of the park.

Morgan Schneiderlin is a long-term target while Arsene Wenger is also believed to be keeping tabs on Lars Bender and William Carvalho to bring what Patrick Vieira offered, to his current roster.

Even though David Ospina sometimes looks like an upgrade to Wojciech Szczesny, the Colombian sometimes emulates Manuel Almunia, who had a burning reputation of going bananas inside the penalty area quite often. That has prompted rumours stating that the French manager may well bring down someone, who belongs to the same league as Thibaut Courtois or David de Gea.

Per Mertesacker is earning more criticisms than plaudits lately and is also being subjected to senescence and his partner, Laurent Koscielny has perpetual injury concerns. The former Monaco manager may, thus, be forced to buy a defender with Fabian Schar being looked at among others.

Arsenal already have their striking options covered with Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud, Alexis Sanchez and Danny Welbeck imposing an intimidating strikeforce, but they are widely rumoured to be chasing Alexandre Lacazette and the likes to further bolster their crowded strikeforce.

The Emirates Stadium club also boast four top-class fullbacks – Nacho Monreal, Mathieu Debuchy, Kieran Gibbs and Hector Bellerin, besides awaiting the return of Carl Jenkinson, who has polished his football to a sublime level under Sam Allardyce.

Given the nature and calibre of the footballers that Arsene Wenger has at different positions, he may have already prioritized the transfer of a world-class defensive midfielder and may also consider bringing down a defender and a striker, if he is to let Lukas Podolski and one of Yaya Sanogo and Joel Campbell go.



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#4 dcdc 2015-03-11 19:03
I'd like him to spend the money on:

1) Howedes (if he's available)

2) A quality striker

3) A DMF

in that order.
+1 #3 Red scarf movement 2015-03-05 21:58
Did anyone ever explain to you 2 plonkers we have been paying for a stadium , thous now we are spending big ,ozil last season sanchez the next ,big winner in gabriel , if you not noticed we are moving in excacty right direction , with stadium paid for and fa cup to with it ,great things all to come , wenger has kept the boys believing , dont tell with the transition arsenal have been through over the past years which or what other team in the history of football has a manager has successfully achieved the unachievable fete making history of qualifying for cl in so many consecutive seasons building a new imroved team and stadium , wether you numb nuts like it or not just like the unbeatables we have been making history all over again , you cant win ever game , teams are now standing up and thinking hold up a minute arsenal are looking value for for money
#2 La Gancha 2015-02-28 09:11
Get fired!
It will NEVER happen, unless he fires himself...
England is the only country in the world rating Arsène Wenger. In France he is not recognised as one of the great and most of the time criticised by his obvious lack of results and trophies... But, still he is in position at Arsenal and you will have some pundits (well when you go as low as recruiting Robbie Savage as a pundit, you wonder why people think BT is seemingly a joke) telling you is a football brain...!!!
Why do you think Mourinho is calling him out when he has a chance? Because he knows the situation is not NORMAL when we talk about football... A manager who has won f*ck all for years and never grab a CL trophy.
Arsenal top club?
There is a big difference. Arsenal is a big club due his fan base and financial strength (which is vague), but as far as being a top club... NOT EVEN NEAR!
We cannot compete with the best... As a matter of fact we cannot compete with anybody...!!
We will get the odd result and may be qualify for the CL next season.
We might also won the FA cup and those deluded fans will still be running behind the bus like mugs screaming "we are winning the CL next"... Yeah right delusional ***s".
Not surprised they keep increasing ticket prices, some fans are so dumb they will pay anything to watch that crap and get behind the "fake" manager.
Personally, it is a 2 years wait and hopefully we will get a proper coach not another suit with no tactical flair and trembling with arrogance and lies.
#1 Malaysian gunner 2015-02-28 05:41
50 million to spend?Call it financial doping.I doubt Monaco have spent a much as Wenger.But results count and Wenger has fallen behind..He used to call teams spending obscene money as addicted to fd but then thye have titles to prove it.
He could have been axed if not for the cup win. We will have to wait and see if the cl miracle can happen and see how the season ends.If it is more of the same I say its better he goes before he is fired.