Wenger plays down need to spend

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Arsene Wenger has attempted to avoid the issue of summer spending, after being quizzed after yesterday’s home defeat to Aston Villa.
The Frenchman commented that he understood the feelings of the fans who left the stadium early or booed the team, but at the same time refuses to recognise that they’d like to see the club show more ambition in the transfer market.
Speaking after the game, he said: “You have to accept that and you have to thank those who are still in the stand. What is important is that this Club has values and respects those values. I feel fortunate that for 15 years we have played with full stands so when people are not happy they can show it. We are in a job where you have to please people and if they are not happy, we have to accept that.
“The fans want to win football games. They will not check how much money we spend, they want to win football games. When we don’t, they are not happy and that is completely normal. We will try to strengthen our team, of course, but the best way to keep our fans happy is to win the games.”
Yes, of course we want the team to win football games, and yes, spending money does not always guarantee that. But when you look at the team this year and last and think that just spending a couple of million more on a centre-back better than Squillaci really wouldn’t have been difficult, it is frustrating that Wenger is happy to accept mediocrity if it saves the club a bit of money.
Once again, it’s all spin from the boss. Obviously if we spent nothing this summer and won the league next year we’d be delighted, but I think we’re also big enough to say that if Wenger brought in a few more big-money and big-name signings and we STILL didn’t win anything, we would at least accept that a bit more ambition was shown.
After all, if we don’t sign anyone, and we have a repeat of this season, it will once again leave us thinking that Wenger should have spent more. It would be easier to know he at least tried.