Danny Welbeck likely to miss start of Premier League season

Wenger’s snubbing of the winger, meanwhile, will not be due to a lack of funds, with Lord Harris also revealing that Arsenal have £200m (€280m) sitting in the bank and can afford any player on the planet. “On the list is a centre forward, but I’m not going to tell you who he is”, said Harris.

But Wenger, who took charge at Arsenal in 1996, has dedicated his entire existence to his job and the Frenchman says he is terrified at the prospect of walking away from the sport for good.

“If there is something more, we are not reluctant to spend the money”.

“We have a strong squad”. You have an examination each three days.

“We have built up something special last season, that is a good team dynamic and confidence level”. We want to work on that and not expect too much from outside. We will try and give absolutely everything but it will be a very open competition and I believe again there are five to six competitors. “I have spoken to Alex Ferguson about it. When we played at Manchester United he came to meet me after the game”.

“As well, they do not have available the players like Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and David Beckham inside the club, because youth talent is spread more through 20 clubs than it was 20 years ago”. “If he wanted the man, he could have him”, Harris was quoted as saying by bbc.co.uk.

“We get a list of the players that Wenger wants”, he told the Daily Mail.

“Our target is to improve our number, but you have examples of teams who have scored 90 or 100 goals and have not won the championship”.

“We have to focus on the quality of our performance inside the group“.

They’ve just sold Bastian Schweinsteiger to United so the pressure is already on the club’s board so I personally don’t think the German giants would even contemplate cashing-in on a player as important as Lewandowski this summer. “That is what football is really about”.

Wolfsburg, who start against Villarreal on Saturday before facing Arsenal on Sunday, will bring a familiar face to the Emirates Stadium with Nicklas Bendtner returning to a club he left at the of the 2013-14 season.