Wenger will look beyond Suarez deal
Arsene Wenger is struggling to
attract new players
08 August 2013
Manager
Arsene Wenger has moved to reassure Arsenal fans the club are "ready to spend
the money" on the right players - and will look elsewhere if they cannot
push through a deal for Liverpool's wantaway striker Luis Suarez.
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Despite chief executive Ivan Gazidis
having talked up the club's new ''financial firepower'' at the end of last
season, so far the free transfer of France Under-21 forward Yaya Sanogo from Auxerre remains the only confirmed summer signing
at the Emirates Stadium.
After failing to deliver Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain, given the Argentinian striker
eventually opted for Napoli instead, Wenger does appear to have several other
players on the radar apart from Suarez, with reports in Romania suggesting a
free transfer deal for forward Ciprian Marica was close following his release by
Schalke.
The Arsenal boss admitted it had not been as easy to
do business as he had hoped, but remains determined to bolster his squad, which
faces a crucial Champions League play-off later this month.
''We try and get what we want; if
that doesn't work we will look somewhere else,'' Wenger said in an interview
with Al Jazeera Sport. ''The clubs with talented players don't want to lose
them.
''Some clubs acted very early so the
choices were reduced and there is more competition coming from France with Paris St Germain, who buy big players for huge
amounts of money, so it's tough, difficult and slow.
''I can assure the fans we will try
very hard to keep them happy. We are certainly ready to spend the money, but
the process is going slowly, but surely.''
The Gunners have seen a specific
offer of £40million plus £1 - which was believed would trigger Suarez's release
clause - rejected out of hand by Liverpool.
However, Suarez has made it clear he
wants to leave and, in a wide-ranging interview, complained of what he saw as
broken promises from Reds manager Brendan Rodgers.
The 26-year-old - currently serving
a domestic 10-game ban imposed by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season -
could yet force the situation by handing in a formal transfer request, or even
asking the Premier League to intervene over the
interpretation of the now infamous get-out clause.
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