Arsene Wenger, master of the transfer market, is priming Arsenal for a trophy drive

Money used on player salary last year: * Chelsea - £114m * Manchester Utd - £85m * Arsenal - £83m * Liverpool - £69m * Newcastle Utd - £52m You can't just take into consideration money used in the transfer market when comparing the amount of money used on players by the different clubs.

Arsenal finished last season on top of the Premier super league!They beat Manchester twice, drew twice with Chelski and 1 win and 1 loss to the Scousers. The problem came with our results against the so called inferior opposition. The Gunners played some superb football in the games but lacked finishing to an alarming degree. This season we will have Van Persie back and firing, Adebeyor having another summer to improve his finishing to go with his superb approach play, and of course we have a possible gem in Da Silva. Also all the Gunners are settled in and used to their team mates. Oh yes,I forgot to mention Theo, another year older,stronger and a full pre season with Wenger!! Bring it on Drogba and right us off at your peril.

Another deluded Arsene ass kisser. For every thierry Henry...there was wiltord and Jeffers, For every RVP there was Baptista (who Wenger chased for 1 whole summer!) who was a Monster flop..and for every Cesc..there was a Reyes. A manager deserves to be applauded for his successes..but Wenger has made his fair share of mistakes. Liverpool,Manu and Chelsea are going for proven talent...yet all i see Arsenal fans bleat about is Arsen Wenger?? To think this is the same club that went unbeaten in 2004! Such low expectations and blind faith in a manager that has led them to fourth place for the past 3 seasons and will fail to do even that this season. A crying shame

all arsenal need is a natural g'scorer. if we took 40% of the chances we create, we'd be top of the league. good luck Da silva hope ur the geezer to do it!

To even mention Arsenal and Leeds in the same context is ridiculous.Arsenal are one of the most secure teams in Europe.

"Arsenal need to fill their 61,000-seater Emirates stadium for every game of every season if they want to avoid going down the same road as that taken by Leeds United". Sorry? Simply not true. Read the financial report released, regarding Arsenal Holdings PLC, at the last AGM. The ground need only be two thirds full all season to service the loan facility, with room to spare. Not that it would affect the club if it wasn't anyway, as the stadium finance is secured against the ground (not the club) and the holding company is liable to pay, not the club. Research your facts before making sensationalist claims. Poor 'journalism', if you can call it that.

i tell you what arseal will shock everyone next year and it will prove everyone wrong you watch.

How will Arsenal fans respond to failure one wonders..will they fill the ground in the same way Spurs and West Ham fans fill theirs even when faced with mediocrity or a lowly placed league position...doubt it very much, but then that what the term supporter means, and theres going to be a test of how good thet really are when their eastern european kwik save players fail abysmally next season

Stu's comments are spot on. I lost count of the games where our 20 goal attempts saw us lose or draw to "their only effort on target"? Most of those were soft goals that a team wishing to challenge for the title should not concede. As to duff buys, Wenger has made a few but the number is insignificant compared to those made by the other big clubs in the same period ... or the spuds.

FG: Thanks for your motivational words, i hope that is what they ment to do for me. realise this, the main mitrigomy of my filling a 61,000 sitter stadia has nothing to do with financing, but the keeping the faith of fans and atleast having a stadium full with people who have come to watch the beutifull game. it is rather unagreeable to say that Arsenal depend on entirely on there stadium to pay for everthing they do when we know that ther are so much alot of revenue sources including TV rights. otherwise good comment, but next time, direct it on sisinlingity of the topic not to show how you can edit what somebody has writen. i can say that is a wrong proffession,,,,,, is it?

Sorry, but you write a lot without saying very much. The fact is that Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool will much have stronger squads next season than they had last season. Arsenal have a weaker squad than last season and we still finished 20 odd points behind the champions. Even if Henry had stayed we needed to strengthen, particularly in the area of goalscoring midfielders. All we have done so far is replace Henry with someone not as good as him. Where you get the idea that we will compete with the other big three under these circumstances I don't know.

There is so much hype in the media today and I often wonder how on earth did these people get their jobs for writing such utter rubbish.We have headlines every day of the week that are not worth a light,no fact just superficial remarks.I hardly think that Wenger is the master of the transfer market,come to think of it I dont think he's the master of anything.We all know that he's a good manager but to say he's the master is overstating things a little,and what about all the hype from some of the Chelsea hirearchy when they say of Man Untd we dont buy success and we are not unduly worried about their new additions,that statement is like the kettle calling the pot black and if they were'nt worried they would'nt have printed that in the first place.Theres so much double standards if we are to believe what we read,it does get so annoying I say lets settle everything on the football pitch. Incidently,the additions added this season to Untd's squad was becauase they hardly bought anyone the season before its also

Quite right. We have money but the fact of the matter is that we are in debt and money has to paid back. Now arsene wenger is probebly the manager in the league that know's that if the club is strong than the football side of thing's is ok and he would never risk that by spending beyond both his and the club's mean's. Take liverpool who have spent god knows how mutch on player's they are also planning a new 60 k seater stadium but by spending this amount of money there are just haveing a laugh.For 1 i don't think liverpool are even half as good as arsenal and when they do build there stadium they will be in a fair worst situation than we are in now. We are manageing our debt properly we are paying money back and that mean's we have to play second fiddle in the transfer market and that is fine by me. Once we have got the debt down to a respectible level thing's will change and we will be the biggest club in te world.We have the highbury development under way and that will earn us 150 million an

Thanks nathan for yet another tedious steaming pile of elephant droppings from someone who has no clue about the Wenger's transfer modus operandi. Wenger has never splashed the cash to prove a point but has always spent enough for a gamble he was prepared to take. True, he has bought flops... Diarra, Jeffers, Cygan and Baptista (although that was on loan), but he bought knowing they MIGHT flop but hoping that they wouldn't and, therefore, spent accordingly. Likewise, he spent modestly for unknowns that went on to be world-famous - Henry, Anelka, Reyes, Vieira, Van Persie, Fabregas, Overmars, Petit.. shall I go on? To think that spending £21m for Wright-Philips just to keep him sitting on the bench is a wise transfer policy, is an idiot. Likewise, £30+m for a Ukrainian has-been, yes Abramovich wa SOOOO clever wasn't he? No, if anyone is deluded, it is someone who thinks that spending money like a kid in a sweet-shop is the only way to achieve success. How much did Chelsea spend to only win the Carling Cup? So

I can bare handedly accept that Chelsea has made competitionin EPL to engage a new gear other than what it was, still they havent won alot, look at the facts people, money can players from anywhere, both old and overrated, but the same money cannot buy supporters. It is hard for a team like Chelsea to fill a 40,000 seater stadium when even they were chapmions back to back. Arsenal on the hand can fill a 61,000 stadia when they havent won anything for two seasons. It will utter unrealistic bollocks to just dismiss inaggressiveness of a team to replace a very important player like Henry who you will never replace as a team out of trophy contetion. Who misses P. Vieira now at Arsenal. Will will not a replacement but a successor is possible. Having said that, to all those who think that Wenger is not a master of transfers, why do you think he does his transfers in secreats nowadays? answer is, because all managers fear his selection and try to get whoever Wenger selects thinking they can god out of him. That is

I'm glad the club will survive with the stadium only 2\3 full. It's heading that way now, with senior players leaving or totally failing to perform and no-one of the slightest consequence coming in. There used to be a football club over there...

the player that cost us just 8 million scored against Terry, Caragher, King, Robinson. Can't wait for them to face DUDU..

well, i hve always been a wenger fan , coz unlike oders he builds a team; but wot i can't understand is dat lookin 3-4 yrs down da line is fine; BUT WOT ABOUT NOW. wid da current squad, i dun c a single striker who can give 20 goals dis season, or a midfielder who can compensate pires's absence on da scorin sheet... and wot baffles me is, why da heck he wont buy a mature experienced player who can make a huge impact now rather dan 2 yrs down da line wen he has da largest transfer kitty he cud ever hve.. and regardin da new players, except cesc, oders havn't really blown me away. wallcott was a huge buy, but i dun c him flourishin nytime soon.. wen will we win a title , is all i wanna kno!

What EXACTLY are you crowing about ? Remind me when the Spuds actually did ANYTHING ? A few cups and a league title nearly fifty years ago. We play football that you all have been dreaming about since your ( admittedly ) good side of the 60's. You talk a good game but unfortunately have absolutely NOTHING to back it up with. We can all spout shite but we don't all want to sound like hollow tossers who can't see the facts. Remind me again in which century it was that you last beat the Gunners in a competitve match ? What evidence or grounds do you have for criticsing Arsenal ? 125 years and is that TWO League 1 titles ???? You earn the award for having the best brass neck and making the most noise and FUCK ALL else.

do you know what you have proven you can beat man u at old trafford or liverpool at anfield, and even push cheslea to there limits, your problem is consitancy, you are up for the big games much like a newcastle of 4 years ago, you just loose stupid points, and the problem is that the same man u had to face, the bench mark is not being set by us anymore its chelsea, we had to beat a 500 hunfred million pound team last season, you need to aim for 90 points and you are just not good enough.. look at united that front line is now scary without tevez, chelsea needs no introduction and liverpool are really starting to push forward. domestically toy will not get better then 4th thanks to man u or celsea the premiership is out of your reach. in the cups chelsea/ man u/ liverpool/ blackburn/westham/in fact most teams in the league if they draw you at their home are good enough on the day, and in europe, well, liverpool/r madrid/ barca/ /,manu,mintermilan,ac milan, you are just not even in contention, you may think t

this is a man u fan taking the mick but i am just trying to make yoiu wake up and smell the coffee..... the league thanks to chelsea and liverpools new owners is a different animal to the 90s where man u and arsenal domintated, you are being left behind and man u only picking up the premiership once in the last 4 years provbes that. you are going to need leadership in the locker room and on the pitch and wit hpeople like, berkamp, henry,vierra,cole,reyes and campbell all gone who will keep the youngster nerves in check, if man u or chelsea or worsr both are chasing you, like scholes, giggs, neville, ole gunna, wes browne will of done for rooney, park fletcher, oshea and ronaldo

Im a devoted GOONER, im sick to death of hearing this shit about us been screwed just because we sold henry, what did he do last season a big fat NOTHING and we did alright so i think only good things can come for us this season and many others. come on the GUNNERS.

f*** all the doom and gloomers ARSENAL will win the league and the yids will go down the leeds road to ruin.