Patrick Vieira: This is type of players Arsenal should be signing

While being critical, Viera was still of the view that Arsene Wenger is still the best manager to lead Arsenal and if he can find a remedy for the physical situation then he believes that Arsenal can be title contenders.

Granit Xhaka is being eased in to Premier League football so he may have to wait to make his full debut while Aaron Ramsey and Alex Iwobi have been ruled out until after the worldwide break next month.

“In our generation we had some fantastic players with the ball but the majority of the players were quite physically strong”, the New York City head coach told the Mirror.

Regardless of who it is, Wenger has made it clear that Arsenal will be completing the signing of a new defender prior to the end of August even if he may not fit into the club’s recruitment policy.

Arsenal are without a win after their first two tricky fixtures in the Premier League. The Frenchman has roped in Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach, who has been his only major signing this summer.

Petr Cech was the only significant arrival ahead of the 2015-16 campaign, with Mohamed Elneny joining in January from Basel.

Arsenal are desperate for reinforcements after having to play Rob Holding and Calum Chambers at centre-back against Liverpool on Sunday, and losing 4-3.

He said: “I will spend £300m if I find the right player, and we have £300m”.

Wenger insists he is prepared to spend, but when it came to being asked about big-money signings says that his priority is that the club can continue to afford to pay their employees. I am not the only one.

“Buying calms the fans, of course, but we have to make sure…it is important to spend money but we have to spend it the right way”, the 66-year-old, in charge of Arsenal since 1996, added. “Every game we play we want to win the game”, he said.

“I’m disappointed not to have ex-Arsenal players working at Arsenal”, said Vieira. “So we want to keep our philosophy and play football”.

“The reason behind it I don’t know but for me the ideal example is Ajax when you see all the old players who played for the team working for the club, working in the field, in the office, and the door is always open”. The door’s always open for them.

Not only since the weekend defeat to Liverpool but all summer long, it’s proved hard to be an Arsenal fan.