Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
Stop being silly. I made the perfectly valid point that we should have attempted to sign him and as far as I can tell we didn't.

Now, a perfectly valid point would have been 'how do you know we didn't try and came up just short and maybe Guardiola was the difference?'. To which I would have replied, that's a fair point however it is surprising that we were never rumoured to be after him and Wenger had a consistent track record of not spending larger sums on younger players at that time. In fact, I would argue that Wenger was still in 'let's find a bargain' mode in the transfer market and for that reason it seems likely to me that we never attempted.

And that period, when he was still trying to find bargains despite having enough money that he didn't need to, played a significant factor in the struggles we are now experiencing.
We were constantly linked with him but it was clear for some time that he was heading to City. I don't think a wide player was particularly a priority and lavishing close on 40 million on an unproven youngster would have been seen as a particularly wise move