Wenger: Arsenal will have to follow prices in unpredictable market

Arsenal have endured a frustrating close-season in the transfer market and Arsene Wenger feels rising prices makes it harder to seal deals.
Arsene Wenger has toned down his assessment of Paul Pogba’s world-record move to Manchester United but feels Arsenal and other clubs find themselves at the mercy of a wildly spiralling transfer market.
Pogba’s return to Old Trafford from Juventus has marked the latest front in Wenger and Jose Mourinho’s long-running verbal feud, with the Manchester United boss unhappy at the Frenchman’s assessment of the deal as being “completely crazy”.
United’s neighbours Manchester City made John Stones the most expensive defender in Premier League history on the heels of the Pogba deal and Wenger, who has struggled in the search for significant Arsenal additions following the early close-season capture of Granit Xhaka, believes the money coursing through English football is causing unpredictability.
“The value of a player is dependent on his talent, the expected strengthening of the team, his age and of course his resale value,” he told Sky Sports.
“When you speak about Pogba it ticks all these boxes – but we are in a system that we don’t master.