Arsenal in my opinion today missed out on a good signing in Klaas Jan Huntelaar. Despite the people who say we don't need a striker because Wenger will be using a 4-3-3 formation next season,that is not a reason not to buy him. Firstly, even though I was glad to see the back of Adebayor, the fact still remains that he added to the teams goal tally and we may be a few goals short as a result. Of course we do have other attacking options in Walcott, Arshavin Van Persie etc but a player of Huntelaar's goal scoring ability alone would add some double figures to the season's tally. I'm going to be really interested to see how Huntelaar does at AC, and i will be gutted if he has a stormer.
Anyway back to the point, why is Arsene Wenger taking so long with the summer transfers? Firstly don't get me wrong I know we don't have the ability to compete financially with other teams but we should send an example with our transfer policy, which we don't. I find it embarrassing that teams like sunderland and the spuds seem to have more ambition than us in the league. Wenger was quoted as saying he wasn't the man to put the club in debt but come on, don't insult our intelligence you don't have to buy £25m plus players all the time but show some grit on the players were fighting for. The main problem I have with our transfer policy above all other things is not wenger's miserly actions but the drawn out affair that always ensues. This fact has cost us in the past and even recently, look at Xavi Alonso's transfer to Madrid, last season we only had to cough up £15m to take him but now he's worth £30m. I'm not implying Alonso would have magically transformed the team but he definitley would have helped.
On a positive note though I do believe despite all wenger's miserly reputations this season he may suprise us. Arsene seems different then he has been in recent seasons and I think last season's pressure's and criticisms could be the reason for his change of policy. The fact that Arsene had stated that he "could" break his policy to sign Vieira or publicly admitting that we lacked aspects of our game was unusual for Wenger.
To wrap it up, today we have once again been linked with Brede Hangeland but the difference this time is that Wenger has stated his interest in Hangeland publicy. This is counter to Arsene's policy of complete privacy with regard to transfers, you just have to look at all the undisclosed transfer fee's there are to see that he takes it seriously. Could this be a Wenger smokescreen for another player or has Wenger changed his stance on getting the players he wants and perhaps he has been playing possum the whole time and will make us happy!
