Vieira shares what Daniel Ek has told him about transfer plan if he buys Arsenal

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Arsenal fans are quite excited by the prospect of Daniel Ek buying the club.

Not only would it spell the end of Stan Kroenke’s time on the throne in North London, but the Swedish billionaire and Spotify owner is also a lifelong fan of the Gunners.

In fact, his net worth of £3.32 billion is also something to get excited about from an Arsenal perspective, if we’re honest.

Ek has also enlisted the help of three club legends – Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp – if he were to be successful in buying the North London club.

But Vieira has revealed that Arsenal fans shouldn’t expect a swathe of big-money transfers if Ek does ascend to power at the Emirates Stadium.

Vieira has spoken to the Swede and has claimed that Ek certainly won’t be greenlighting any £300 million deals, claiming that a transer model akin to that under Arsene Wenger will be the 38-year-old’s intentions.

He told The Daily Mail: “He’s prepared to invest to make this club successful but it’s not to get a player for £300m and then waiting for him to make a difference. It’s about building a team. When you look at the Arsenal era [under Wenger], at that time we had success with players like myself, that nobody knew about and they brought me for not a lot of money.

“The top teams need to invest but obviously you need to have a strategy about the direction you want to go and if you have that and you have the people to make that project successful, of course you have more chance to succeed. But it’s not just about the money.”

Let’s face it, Arsenal may be better off going back to trying to sign unknown gems like Vieira, Henry, Robert Pires and Cesc Fabregas to name but a few.

Since Wenger left, the Gunners have broken their transfer record on Nicolas Pepe in a £72 million deal but despite improving in recent months, the former Lille attacker is still miles away from justifying his price-tag, while the same coud be said for Thomas Partey after his £45 million switch last October.

They also committed to paying Willian some £35 million over the course of a three-year deal and going by his first season at the club, this looks a pretty dreadful investment.

Arsenal fans called on their club to splash the cash for years and now that they have been, perhaps Wenger was right all along when he pointed out the difference between a big name and a big player. The club need more of the latter.