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Emmanuel Adebayor gave Arsenal their best news of this close season so far when the striker ended the doubts over his immediate future by agreeing to sign a new deal that will keep him contracted until 2012.
Adebayor, 24, has signed a one-year extension in addition to the
three years on his existing deal and is also understood to have doubled his wages to around £70,000 a week.
But it is a far cry from the £120,000 a week the Togo striker was initially understood to have demanded once he realised he was a target for Milan and Barcelona.
Wenger also attacked the conduct of European teams who made illegal approaches to his players at the end of last season.
Alexander Hleb, Mathieu Flamini and Gilberto Silva have all departed but, with Adebayor's future secured, Wenger said that he was only seeking one more experienced midfielder to complete his squad, who face Juventus and Real Madrid over the weekend in the pre-season Emirates Cup.
"There is no reason why, with such a young squad, we will be less good this year," Wenger said.
With numerous agents claiming to represent him, and an outspoken declaration of his own value to Arsenal at a sponsor's event in Vienna during Euro 2008, Adebayor's future at Arsenal has been precarious.
However, Wenger's meeting with the player in Austria shortly afterwards tipped the deal back in Arsenal's favour.
Strenuously denying that he had ever wished to leave, Adebayor said it was his loyalty to Wenger that was the key to him staying.
"He's like my father. He's my boss so whatever he tells me, I'll do it."
Wayne Rooney believes he was "blameless" in an altercation with a photographer whom he claims was "persistently invading the privacy" of an evening he was sharing with his wife Coleen in London this week.
Rooney was interviewed under caution by police outside a restaurant after allegedly spitting at the photographer who, according to Rooney, followed the couple inside.
"The photographer had to be evicted. Wayne was happy to co-operate fully and give a clear version of the events in which he believes he was blameless," a spokesman for the 22-year-old said.