Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has no problems with signing promising teenager Jon Toral from Barcelona, despite the Nou Camp outfit claiming the move as "a little immoral" for the 16 year old. Barca president Sandro Rosell made the comments after the Gunners paid around £296,000 for Toral, who was free to sign with any professional club.
"You forget that this boy is English. He has an English passport, his mother is from England and hopefully he will join us in the summer," Wenger said.
"We have players who leave us for other professional clubs in England.
"We have done what just is legal.
"I love Barcelona, I love Catalonia - I have nothing against them, but when a player who is half English and Spanish wants to join us, why should we turn him down if it's all legal?
"If we have done something illegal, I will say 'sorry, my boy, we cannot do it'.
"Plenty of players leave us under exactly the same rule."
Wenger, though, would not be drawn on Rosell's comments.
"I do not want to go further on that front because it is very difficult," he said.
"If you go in the academy of Barcelona and you look where all the players come from, come back to me and we can talk about it."
