From Neil : Here is an eye opener for you
Since Wenger took over AFC, 1996 until present time 13/08/13.
He spent £28,216 on players.
That’s transfers in, transfers out.
AFC ARE 28,216 POUNDS OUT OF POCKET IN 17 YEARS ON TRANSFERS.
His best season was 2009/10 when he made 31 million profit on Adebayor and Toure to Man. City.
2001/12 was not bad either, making 17 million profit by selling Nasri.
But 205/06 was the doozy.
He bought Rosicky for 7 million, Adebayor for 7 million, Helb for 11 million, Walcott for 9 million, Diaby for 2 million, Bendtner 200,000 total 36 million.
Sold Vieira for 13.7 Bentley for 10 Pennant close to 5 million.
The total cost of those players to AFC WAS 6.78 MILLION.
Take a look at 2006/7, another 17 million profit.
Buys Eduardo 7.5, Fabianski 2, Denilson 3.4, Gallas, free, Song 1 million (sold to Barca for 17 million)how does he do it.
Sells Henry 16, aliadere 2, Muamba 2 Larsson 1 Stokes 2 Cygan 2 Lauren 500,000 Cole 5 million.
http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/arsenal-transfers.html
All it has cost Arsenal on transfers for 17 years is 28,000 quid .
I want Wenger supporters to knowwhat his real game is all about.
That is an astonishing piece of information.
But as far back as 1996 his game was profit, if he won a few cups and titles along the way, well fine.
But he never went into large debt over buying players, the purchases were carefully selected and mostly offset by the players sold
THE MOST IT EVER COST ARSENAL IN A CLOSE SEASON BUYING PLAYERS WAS 16.650 MILLION POUNDS IN 2003/04
Even right now, Wenger is in profit to the tune of 10 million pounds, Gervinho sold for 8 million, Mannone for 2 million
Giving moneybags Wenger 80 million to spend
THIS IS THE ONLY REASON WENGER GETS A CONTRACT.
It must be killing him to have to spend some of that.