“I would like to bid for the major stars, but the Arsenal board’s wage structure will not allow it. We urgently need a pick-up in the League because we are down in thirteenth place. That’s virtually unheard of in my time as manager at Highbury.”

Fascinating words from the diary of the Arsenal manager on 13th January, 1995, as recorded in his book published later that year, George Graham, The Glory and the Grief.

I wonder if we will see those sentiments repeated should Arsene share the contents of his diary with us at some future point?