Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger blames UEFA for their battles in the transfer market.
Wenger is furious that European football's governing body have backed down over Financial Fair Play rules.
He said: "FFP is gone, I have seen the signs coming from UEFA for a while now. I thought for a while it would happen but now it is not possible.
"What's happened is the clubs threatened to go to civil court - not only through sport.
"That brought a lot of insecurity in the decision making of UEFA so they started to soften the rules a little bit.
"Now it looks like the last decision about Paris St-Germain in July and then Manchester City has opened the door completely.
"We continue to run our business with the resources we create. We can always recreate the resources and they can put a hundred or two hundred on top. It is always like that.
"Maybe it will change here one day. I've said to you all the time it is not a shortage of money. At the moment it is a handicap to us because we have the resources, just a shortage of players."