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- Updated: December 16, 2016
Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal still struggle to compete financially with Manchester City, but says that is no excuse not to win at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
The Gunners travel to Manchester on Sunday, live on Sky Sports, with a one-point advantage over Pep Guardiola’s side in the table and both sides will be hoping to avoid losing further ground to leaders Chelsea in the title race.
Wenger was very active in the transfer market this summer as he splashed out a combined £88.1m on Granit Xhaka (£34m), Rob Holding (£2m), Lucas Perez (£17.1m) and Shkodran Mustafi (£35m), while Takumo Asano arrived for an undisclosed fee.
That paled in comparison to the £168.15m City splashed out to reshape their squad, as they brought in Ilkay Gundogan (£21m), Nolito (£13.8m), Leroy Sane (£37m), Gabriel Jesus (£27m), John Stones (£47.5m), Marlos Moreno (£4.75m) and Claudio Bravo (£17.1m), while Oleksandr Zinchenko also …
