The Gunners currently sit 18 points behind
table-toppers Manchester United and face the galling prospect of
seeing them seal the title in their clash this weekend.
While Wenger’s policy of giving youth a chance has
continued to deliver attractive football, points have been dropped
at key times in the season with critics blaming a lack of
experience.
And having seen Andrey Arshavin, a ready-made player at
27, arrive in January and make an immediate impact, the Frenchman
admits his next signings will be similar.
He said: “We don’t need more players without
experience.
“If we bring in players it will be ones with
experience.
“If you do a comparison between Manchester United and
us, we have scored a similar number of goals — but we have conceded
more.
“In the passing and in the final third of the pitch we
are as good as Manchester United.
“But we’ve conceded 36, they’ve conceded 24. They
scored 67, we’ve scored 64.
“Offensively there is no difference — defensively there
is.”