Pep Guardiola jokes about Arsenal and Liverpool transfer spending | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola says Arsenal and Liverpool have the right to spend heavily in the transfer market, but believes Manchester City have been treated “completely differently” in this regard.

Liverpool spent a record £446.4 million on new signings this summer, while Arsenal spent £267 million. City, meanwhile, dropped £150m in the window.

City have frequently been accused of buying success over the past decade due to their massive outlay on new talent, helping them win six Premier League titles and the Champions League during the Guardiola era.

Pep Guardiola jokes about Arsenal and Liverpool transfer spending

Asked about the Gunners’ recent transfer spending ahead of City’s trip to the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, Guardiola said: “It is what it is. They decided to do it in Arsenal.

“I want to say to my friend Mikel Arteta, if he wins the title it will be just because he spent, not because he worked a lot or his players. It’s like Liverpool. If Arne wins again, it will be because he spent a lot of money. Right? Because it’s not just Man City that happened, right?

“So for all of them. Listen, for many, many years every club can do whatever he wants. I know how they’ve been treated is completely different, but what he wants to spend is because they want it and it’s fine.

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“All I can say is they have been wise. They spent what they believe they can do to compete against the best teams in the Premier League and Europe and they’ve reached that level.

“He found a team in that way, a club, and step by step, window by window, step by step, Arsenal is getting better. So last season in Europe, they made incredible step forward and they are for me the most solid team. They don’t make mistakes in the back and this incredible solid team.

“They have pace up front, they have of course set pieces with Nico Jover, he was here. It’s in every department. But we know it. So every team is better and better and better and I know the quality that all of them they have.”

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