Arsenal’s manager, Arsene Wenger feels that his side can still compete with their Premier League rivals, without having to spend over the top to do so.
The North London club have not won a trophy for seven years, with their last cup win having occurred way back in 2005. That year, the team went on to beat Manchester United in the FA Cup final to claim their most recent silverware.
At the same time, the team has not managed to win the league title since 2004 and this is a fact that seems to be causing a lot of annoyance to the team’s fans.
In recent years, the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 and Manchester City have gone on to win trophies and elevated their levels of success. This is mainly down to the massive investments that have gone into the team and the ridiculous fees that they paid to land their
players.
Despite this fact, Wenger feels that his side can still compete with these teams, even if they don’t spend over the top to do so.
When talking about this teams that spend over the top and how his team is going to be operating in the future, Wenger is quote dot have said: "Firstly, I must say that not being able to match the spending of the richest clubs does not mean that you can't
compete with them on the pitch.”
"When I first came to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749, this question did not exist. Every club was run within its resources.”
"The Chelsea's and the Man City's are new problems. But with this new financial environment, what has not changed at all is our policy that we will be as ambitious as ever and spend the money that we have available, if possible in an intelligent and wise way.”
"We have always spent money because we are ambitious for top-class players and if you look at the history of our last 15 years, we have always had top-class players.”
Wenger has been known to be rather tame in the transfer market, but it seems like the manager has a very valid point.
Considering the financial fair play rules that are being introduced into the game, it is going to be interesting to see how the behaviour of all the cash rich clubs changes.
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