Arsenal tried to buy and team still needs players says Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry believes Arsene Wenger tried to buy players this summer, but Arsenal may have ended up short of what they need to fight for the title.

The Arsenal boss did not buy anyone on deadline day, with just Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech arriving at the Emirates in the close season, meaning Arsenal were the only side in any of Europe's top-five leagues not to have signed an outfield player this summer.

That has led to some questioning why the Frenchman did not bring in a new striker before the window closed on Tuesday night.

Wenger wanted to add to his first-team squad before the window closed, but persuading the likes of Real Madrid frontman Karim Benzema or Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani to move to north London is no easy task according to Henry.

"I do not know if the boss wanted Benzema or not, but the player must also want to come," he said.

"What are you going to offer to the guy who is playing for one of the best teams in the world, knowing that he is playing there week in, week out, and performing well?

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"So I do not think that Arsene did not want to bring any other players - that would have been another story if he had really said: 'I do not want to bring in any other players.' But he said that if it can be done, then I will try to bring someone.

"But how do you get Benzema from Real Madrid when he plays there and Cavani also from Paris Saint-Germain - he scored again at the weekend? It is a difficult one.

"I do not think he did not want to bring in anyone, he wanted to bring players as we know, but it did not happen. "

It does not look right now like they are going to win the league like this.

However, Henry thinks that Arsenal's first-team squad is now not strong enough to win this season's Premier League title, especially given Manchester City's impressive start to the campaign.

"Right now they are already five points behind City, still have not won at home, won two games by an own goal, which is actually their best goal scorer at the moment," the former Gunners captain said.

"Ideally it does not look right now like they are going to win the league like this. But I think Arsene believes he can win the league with that team and that team is good enough. And that is his prerogative.

"I think he should have tried to bring players and I think he did try, it could not happen, but I still think that team needed some players."