After hearing recent reports suggesting Arsene Wenger has a £35 million transfer kitty to spend this January, Frank McLintock dismisses any chance of Arsenal making big-money signings this winter.
Wenger managed to bring in Lukas Podolski, Olivier Giroud and Santi Cazorla for an estimated combined total of £41 million, following the sales of Robin van Persie and Alex Song to Manchetster United and Barcelona respectively.
Arsenal have already been linked with an array of talent for the upcoming winter transfer window, with the likes of Fernando Llorente, Wilfried Zaha and Radamel Falcao on the list.
However, McLintock claims Wenger’s frugalness will stop the Frenchman from signing such high-profile players.
Speaking on ‘The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast Show’, the former Gunner said:
‘Things are looking pretty good at Arsenal.
‘There was talk in the papers over the last few days that Arsene Wenger has £35million to spend on a striker but I don’t think he’ll ever do that. He’ll have a heart attack before he ever does something like that!’
Will Wenger spend the reported £35 million kitty on just one player? I don’t think so. More importantly, he doesn’t really need too.
If he manages to bring in two players, perhaps a defender (full-back) and another striker, with this amount of cash then I’ll be pleased.
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you dont think so? go support the spuds you clueless idiot
If you read properly I also added he doesn’t need to spend, you r-tard
The Wenger I know will rather rot in the bottomless pit of hell than signing a single player of 20million let alone 35million. Wenger believe the success of a team is a collective effort not an individual effort. This report is a damn Fallacy.
Actually Wenger bid 25million a couple of seasons ago for Reina the Liverpool keeper.
He will bid over 20 million if he considers a player worth it.
He did bid almost 30 million for Gotze or am I off teh mark on that? McLintock is clueless in that regard.
He also bid 30 mil’ for Goetze. If he can buy him then he’ll do it but to be honest we all know January won’t bring us any new players and if he does it’ll be around 15-20 mil’ mark. We don’t need much at all other than another striker…
Wenger will nt spend 35million buh I believe he will. Get zaha or lopez dis january n I also fink we should jes go for isco who is creative cuz an attackn football is better played in d mid field to bring out the bus parked defenders out of their shell.
Wenger has 27 players currently in his first team squad and another 26 in his reserve squad and that doesnt include the 14 out on loan or the 11 remaining scholars. unless he loses more of his “first team” there wont be any new additions in january. as it stands we have our full quota of a-list players for champions league and there are more players already at the club who cant get on the a or b-list.
one word, NEYMAR
OZIL!