If you wait for the opportunity to arise it'll never come - you've got to take your cheque book to those clubs & test their resolve.
You mean like going to 'gladbach with big coin and signing their captain before the transfer window opens?
Or triggering Vardy's release clause before England travelled to the Euros?
There's been plenty of intent. Just like there is right now with this push for Mahrez.
Wenger's only saying we've got the coin because everyone knows we've got the coin - it's published annually in our statements. Otherwise I'm pretty sure he'd stay completely silent on that too. Doing business in public is not Arsenal's way.