Arsenal: All of this depends on truthfulness of “budget”

Arsenal had a very low, uninspiring transfer budget this summer transfer window, but do we actually believe that number as the law?

Arsenal’s summer transfer window is going rather well, wouldn’t you say? Thus far, they have landed a new starting keeper and a demonstrative veteran rightback, as well as a marauding central midfielder and a centerback who just haven’t been announced yet.

All this to say that they are very much over budget, and that isn’t even including the new contracts that have already been signed, and figure to be signed.

Then there are the other needs – the other rumors. Players like Lucas Vazquez and Cristian Pavon are linked but not free and even Gelson Martins, who is free, is going to cost a bit of dough.

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So much of what we’ve talked about this summer is how these things fit into the transfer budget for this summer because, just look at it, they don’t.

Meaning that either players will have to be sold or… the transfer budget isn’t real.

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There have been countless summers where they Gunners were given a “warchest” or a “transfer kitty” only for them to either fall woefully short of that number or, in the case of this summer thus far, shatter it early on, with more action to go.

There is no rule of law that says the Gunners can only spend the £50m they were rumored to have. Yes, they have tight purse strings, and they’ve had such historically, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some flexibility in the new regime.

Again, assuming that number is a real thing at all.

No one of any importance, who is anywhere near the central cognitive push of this club, has said that there is a limit to the budget. It may be a case like with Arsene Wenger, where he said that for the right player, no cost is too much.

Although he rarely ever lived up to that claim, the new transfer command looks dead set on filling in all the areas where Wenger left gaps and, thus far, that includes conclusiveness in the transfer market.

This budget always seemed a little low and, granted, that was to compensate for the lack of Champions League. But it was the same last summer and that didn’t stop anyone. Where did they get the January funds from, by the way?

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With a new manager and a new era, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Gunners go into the season £50m, hell, maybe even £100m over this reported “budget.”