AFTER A 3-1 LOSS TO AVERAGE ASTON VILLA THE 'ARSENAL BABA IJEBU MANAGER' IS STILL ON THE OBSOLETE PHILOSOPHY: The 63-year-old, however, insists he is ready to spend the money, but only on the right calibre of player. “If you bring me tomorrow players who are better than those we have, I promise you we will look at them, but you cannot say that (Jack) Wilshere is a super player and then ask ‘why you do not buy better player than him?’,” said Wenger, whose side will open the new Premier League campaign against Aston Villa this afternoon without Mikel Arteta, the midfielder possibly set for up to six weeks sidelined by a thigh injury. “If you want to absolutely describe me as a greedy (miserly) person and you would live with me, you would see that I am not, I am rather generous,” he said. “But we had to go through a period when we had to look at the money that we spent. Today we look for the quality and not necessarily the money that we spend. “What can I do about it (the public perception)? Sometimes the image you (media) give people is reality and sometimes not. “Of course it is unfair. Why should I resist (to spend)? I just defend the idea that you spend the money you have and not the money you don’t have. “For years I did that. Today we have more so we can spend more. It is as simple as that. “Of course I am excited by that prospect, but what I want to convince you of is that we are ready to spend the money if we feel that the players makes us a better team tomorrow morning. “Maybe it is difficult to balance that in a newspaper, but football is not only about that. It is bigger than that, it is about the team, the quality of the play, the spirit and togetherness and the quality of the players. Therefore we have to focus on all the rest as well.”
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 20:13:19 +0000
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