2014: pre-season. Thrashing Man C and the arrival of Alexis and Bellerin.

by Tony Attwood Having had a net spend of around £32.5m in the 2013 pre-season period Arsenal went further in the summer of 2014 spending £35.6m, (before spending another £13.7m in the following January.) It all added weight to the pro-Wengerian argument that spending had been restricted during the building and paying for the Emirates. …