WENGER WAITS FOR BUDGET DECISION
Manager Arsene Wenger expects to find out next week just what funds he will have available this summer - but knows throwing money at the Arsenal squad in search of a quick fix is not necessarily the answer.
The Gunners boss has been promised the finances for investment in new players by the board should he want it.
However, that is likely to be far less than what is to be made available from the new American owners at Liverpool and Aston Villa, not to mention how much Chelsea will spend looking to wrestle the Barclays Premiership title back from Manchester United - themselves also sure to strengthen.
It remains to be seen what will transpire from the interests of new Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke, with the involvement of the American billionaire understood to be behind the shock departure of vice-chairman David Dein.
For the moment, however, Wenger has little choice than to accept what is on offer within the constraints the club operate under, having an on-going commitment to their new 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium.
"Certainly there is money to spend in the summer. How much? Frankly at the moment I do not know. We have to see," said the Arsenal boss.
"It is linked as well with who goes out, who comes in.
"You can create money. That is what we always try to do - but how much I do not know."
Wenger added: "I will be meeting the board at some point next week to discuss the budget."
The Gunners manager, though, knows there can be no quick fix to regain the vast experience gone from his squad in recent seasons.
He said: "You look in the last two years - we have lost Robert Pires, Dennis Bergkamp, Sylvain Wiltord, Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole, Patrick Vieira, Edu, Kanu, Martin Keown.
"It is a capital of experience you lose and you do not replace that from one second to the next." More
The Gunners boss has been promised the finances for investment in new players by the board should he want it.
However, that is likely to be far less than what is to be made available from the new American owners at Liverpool and Aston Villa, not to mention how much Chelsea will spend looking to wrestle the Barclays Premiership title back from Manchester United - themselves also sure to strengthen.
It remains to be seen what will transpire from the interests of new Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke, with the involvement of the American billionaire understood to be behind the shock departure of vice-chairman David Dein.
For the moment, however, Wenger has little choice than to accept what is on offer within the constraints the club operate under, having an on-going commitment to their new 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium.
"Certainly there is money to spend in the summer. How much? Frankly at the moment I do not know. We have to see," said the Arsenal boss.
"It is linked as well with who goes out, who comes in.
"You can create money. That is what we always try to do - but how much I do not know."
Wenger added: "I will be meeting the board at some point next week to discuss the budget."
The Gunners manager, though, knows there can be no quick fix to regain the vast experience gone from his squad in recent seasons.
He said: "You look in the last two years - we have lost Robert Pires, Dennis Bergkamp, Sylvain Wiltord, Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole, Patrick Vieira, Edu, Kanu, Martin Keown.
"It is a capital of experience you lose and you do not replace that from one second to the next." More
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