‘We built something special last season'

By Lloyd Webb 

 Arsene Wenger is looking for his squad to build on the “special” momentum they built up last season.

The Frenchman has so far signed Petr Cech this summer, and remains open to making further additions.

However, Wenger says focusing on the players he already has at his disposal remains of paramount importance.

“We built up something special last season,” he said. “That is a good team dynamic, a good confidence level, a convincing and efficient style of play. We want to work on that and we do not expect too much from outside now.

“It’s inside our squad that our performance has to be efficient. We have to focus on the quality of our performance inside the group. We also want to focus on the style of our play and our performance - that’s what football is really about.

“Part of the respect of your players is to focus on the players you have and to try to improve and look at the performance.

“We are open-minded [about transfers] everywhere and we work very hard to find the quality of the players we can. Let’s not forget that we have spent a lot of money in the last two seasons and we have bought as well Gabriel in the middle of last year to give him time to adapt and be ready for this season.

“If there is something more, we are not reluctant to spend the money. I know that you like to paint me as doing that! I didn’t do it for a while because we didn’t have the money. Now that we have, if we find the players we will spend the money.”