Wenger has to stop talking

Can someone, somewhere, please, please, please shut Wenger up? It’s one thing having to watch his distinctly average team play the slowest and most boring football in the country, but why does he have to embarrass himself further off the pitch?

If he’s not lying to or patronising fans, he’s just plain contradicting himself.

Days before Fabregas left (and Eboue too, but who cares) he told us he expected no one to leave the club. Meanwhile, Nasri and Bendtner are still looking very likely to make their exits before the end of the month.

Now, arguably more annoying, are his comments that he would happily spend £40million as long as he finds players of the best quality. What rubbish.

He waited an extra year to get Marouane Chamakh on a free, perhaps because he knew he wasn’t worth spending the money on, as he is now showing, but he still couldn’t resist a free transfer could he? And just weeks ago he cited his main reasons for signing Gervinho as the fact that his contract is up next year and he was available for slightly cheaper. I don’t think anyone will be that surprised if he ends up being another total flop.

And then there’s the likes of Almunia, Silvestre, Squillaci, Denilson and Diaby, players signed because they were either unknown or unwanted and therefore CHEAP. Sure, Denilson and Diaby might have paid off, as some of Wenger’s other gambles have, but the fact remains that he is not making his signings based on quality, but on their price tag.

More recently, he’s splashed out on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. The price tag varies depending on what you read, but at some point or another he is likely to cost us £12million. That’s just £5million less than United spent on signing Ashley Young this summer, and yet Wenger will, as ever, say that he has a sophisticated scouting system looking all around the world, but that he couldn’t find anyone better than the 17-year-old who has only ever played in League One.

Here are his quotes, if you can bear to read them: “I will pay 30 [million] I will even pay 40 if I find the right players. But it’s not a question of money, it’s a question of quality we find.

“I think I have a wrong reputation of not wanting to spend money – I do not want to spend money for average players.”

These are the words of a man that has completely lost touch with reality. How he expects us to fall for this rubbish is beyond me.