Arsenal Wenger hits back at critics who demand he spends more Arsenal money on summer transfers
The Gunners boss says the clubs who spend big on new players have to keep on buying them
ARSENE WENGER has told his transfer critics: Your views are just a lot of noise.
Some Arsenal fans are furious the Frenchman will once again kick off a season with just one big-name new signing on board.
And Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka, a £30million buy from Borussia Monchengladbach, may not even be ready to face Liverpool today.
All of the Gunners’ rivals have spent heavily this summer in a bid to land a Premier League crown that has eluded Wenger since 2004.
But the Emirates boss has defended his approach, insisting: “What is very difficult in the modern game is that there is always the demand for new. But new is just new. The first day a player drives in here, it’s new. After six months, it’s not any more.
“What is new makes news but apart from that it makes noise, it’s not necessarily always quality.
“We signed Xhaka. The other clubs signed a lot of players but they signed a lot of players the year before as well.
“If you want to make everybody happy just buy 20 new players. Then everybody is full of hope — until the first game starts, then it’s back to reality.”
Wenger did concede that something has to change in the red half of north London — his players’ finishing.
But he insisted that does not mean bringing in a new striker for the often-criticised Olivier Giroud.
He said: “That’s one of the domains where last year we were not the most efficient.