You have to enjoy when the tabloids, better known as the English papers, are constantly talking about your team and potential signings/connections with big time players. But when things start to go silent and then your only link is the potential overpaying for a “biter” you have to start to get worried a bit, right?

And then the unthinkable happens (not really, just par for the course) and Wenger himself laments, “… [W]e are not close to signing anybody”. W. T. F.

I think we have truly lost our touch in the market. How is it seemingly possible that with a 100mil plus budget we are not even CLOSE to signing anybody? I wish I had an answer here. Plenty of other teams seem capable of signing players. Plenty of other teams seem capable of spending money. Are we trying to buy players with funny money? Did we decide to invest in bitcoin and try to use that? How is it remotely possible that we are this far off?!

Ok, I am going to go down a dark road here but I am starting to wonder a bit if this could be true. Is Wenger a bit of a snooty French market player? Does he treat other clubs with stereotypical “I’m better than you” attitude? I can’t figure out what is going on. Rumors now have us only linked with Suarez (please tell me this head-case can’t be our only play) and losing out on just about everyone we thought we could snag (Fellaini, Higuain, Ceasar, Jovetic, Rooney, etc.).

Don’t get me wrong, I like our current squad. I like hanging 7 goals on southeast Asia players. I think Poldi and Giroud will provide better return this year and our team will produce better results with the chemistry they built last year. But we have to have more depth if we are going to compete in more than one cup next year. If we truly have aspirations of finishing higher than 4th (do we? scary thought), we have to have top quality players AND depth. We all know this. Management knows this. Players know this. What happens when the team gets excited about all these potential signings and then August rolls around with a big fat ZERO in that department? No bueno amigos.

At this point, as a fan, I don’t want to get shoved into that corner where I just want ANY signing. It is a more than a bit frustrating to have us finally go into a summer with no big losses, plenty of money to spend and yet we have nothing to show for it. Arsenal fans deserve more. Arsenal players deserve more.