EMMANUEL PETIT claims top stars will no longer want to join Arsenal — because the club never wins anything.
The former France midfielder, who won the Double with the Gunners in 1998, believes the North London club is now seen as a stepping stone to bigger things.
Arsene Wenger’s side have not won a trophy since lifting the FA Cup in 2005.
And Petit, 42, who spent three years at Arsenal before moving to Barcelona in 2000, said: “The big worry today is that even if Arsenal have the money who are they going to get to join the club now?
“The idea they have been giving off for seven years is that it’s a club which doesn’t win trophies and at the end of the season their best players will leave.
“The feeling is that Arsenal are creating a generation of players who will leave in the hope of going to another club in order to win something.”
Petit, however, is still backing boss Wenger to get the club out of this mess.
He says the Gunners have been unable to compete in the transfer market as the club funded its move from Highbury to the Emirates in 2006.
And Petit insists now those economic constraints have been loosened boss Wenger can put the club on a more equal footing with its rivals.
He said: “I’m still convinced Wenger’s the man for the job because over the last 15 years he has been a master-builder.
“He hasn’t won anything for seven years because since the club moved to the Emirates they’ve had to tighten their belts and sell their best players all the time.
“They also couldn’t get involved in overbidding in the transfer market.
“But now they have a fairly big surplus and so can compete again.”
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Source: theSun
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