London's "Arsenal" coach Arsene Wenger revealed the main reason why the team decided to strengthen their attack in winter instead of defense. According to him, it simply wasn't enough financial resources for that.
The ranks of the "Gunners" were joined in January by Henrik Mkhitaryan from "Manchester United" and became the most expensive purchase in team's history Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. In addition, Mesut Ozil signed a new contract.
These news were received very favorably by Arsenal fans, but the team faces the most problems in a completely different area - in 25 "Premier" League matches, they have already conceded 34 goals.
"Pay attention that strengthening the defense is a huge problem," - said Wenger.
"Everyone looks at defenders. You can look at 'City', they bought a defender again. How much money have they spent on defenders in the last three years?"
"We don't have the financial power like 'Manchester City'. The fact that they have only conceded half as many goals as we have, is partly due to the fact that they are very strong in attack. Also, they control the ball a lot in opponents' half, unlike us."
True, "Arsenal" did buy a promising defender Konstantinos Mavropanos, but they didn't spend as much money as "Liverpool" did for Virgil van Dijk or the aforementioned "City" for Aymeric Laporte.
