gallas came in exchange for cole who's from arsenal youth team
baptista came in exhange for reyes who was brought into london when, when he was 19-20?
hleb, rosicky came from german league. we had the chance to get them, fuck, we've been linked them for ages, yet nothing was done.
lehman was widely considered as a flop when he came to arsenal
van persie, again, bough in his teens. given a chance to star bhy wenger.
then again, what about toure, senderos, eboue, clichy, fabregas, walcott, djorou etc etc?
why dont we have those? oh yeah, because we need more experience. so we end up with the likes of zanetti and zalayeta, while youngsters rot being loaned away.