As Arsenal fans grow increasingly frustrated with their minimal business this summer, Chas Newkey-Burden examines the Frenchman's changing attitude to putting his hand in his pocket...
It's a scene that would shock present-day Arsenal fans. Standing in front of the media, Arsene Wenger proudly lined up the players he'd bought over the summer - all eight of them.
All eight of them! The new arrivals in 1997 covered almost every position on the field, and among them was a bona fide superstar in Marc Overmars and a future World Cup winner in Emmanuel Petit.