Wenger: Arsenal will NOT buy BIG players every time.

Arsene Wenger tried to explain his transfer policy at
yesterday's AGM, a policy which has come in for
some serious criticism in recent years. Whereas the
Frenchman used to be seen as a genius for
unearthing and developing some fantastic players,
such as Henry, Vieira, Fabregas and many more, in
recent years his transfers have been derided.
Failures like Squillaci, Gervinho, Park have inly added
to the fans' frustration at losing top class players,
often to direct rivals. So by smashing the club's
transfer record to bring in Mesut Ozil from Real
Madrid, and the brilliant way the German has slotted
effortlessly into the Arsenal team, Wenger has
redeemed his reputation to a certain extent. That
does not mean that he has changed his policy,
however, as reported by Arsenal.com,
Wenger said, "I think that the core of our strengths
and our club has to be what we produce internally,
with the players who come out from our education.
"We have a specific style of play that demands a
special education inside the Club, and of course we
complete that with good scouting. Good scouting is
sometimes to develop players through our coaching
skills into world class players who are not necessarily
known when they arrive here.
"They compete as well with recognised players like
Ozil, but you don't need special scouting to identify
Ozil, because everybody knows him.
"I don't think that (big money signings) can be the
rule for anybody, because first of all the number of
these players is limited.
"Secondly, the competition worldwide has become
much bigger than 10 years ago and today on the
world market you have 15 clubs who have the
potential to sign these players."
At least Arsenal have now become one of those clubs,
and Wenger is not saying he won't be signing any
more big players, but they will be the exception
rather than the norm. This philosophy is very similar
to that of Barcelona, who only signed one player this
summer, Neymar. Arsenal are different in the way we
sign young players like Serge Gnabry, Sanogo and
Eisfeld and then try to develop them further in the
Arsenal way. It seems to be working at the minute.
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