You have to laugh at Wenger really, he always tries to give mind games a go before big games and never quite gets it right.
Bearing in mind we haven’t done much wrong in terms of our football so far this season, the sour-faced Arsenal manager has had a scrabble round and come up with some half-cocked notion that our transfer ban isn’t a punishment.
The whinging Frenchman says “It is no punishment. I believe that FIFA never stopped anybody from moving, no matter what you do. They just can suspend the player after or the club. I didn’t know that the appeal was working but maybe Chelsea has appealed and until the appeal court comes forward they can buy.”
So the fact we’ll be able to buy in the January window – where we’d be lucky to buy any players of substance and anyone we did bring is likely to be cup-tied yet by the summer, when clubs generally look to bring in the real quality, we won’t be able to – means we won’t suffer from the ban according to Wenger.
He has to concede Chelsea are perfectly entitled to use the loophole and goes on “I believe also that it’s not for us to dream that Chelsea is handicapped [when it comes to] buying players. It’s more about us turning up with proper performances. At the end of the day they will always have 11 good players.”
We’ll look out for that ‘proper performance’ tomorrow then eh?
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