Gervinho, Arsenal legend! Arsene, live by the sword… And Dare we sign Dann?

First of all new boy Gervinho said this about our want-aways – ‘If the club does not manage to keep these players, they will be able to replace them’ not a bad start to his Arsenal career and one I whole heartedly agree with.

I said yesterday that Nasri should be kept, I still think he should, but only if he signs a new 5 year contract, if he won’t, then sell him and spend that money on Eden Hazard.

Sell Fabregas to Madrid because he is finished at Arsenal and buy Bastian Schweinsteiger, or swap him for Ozil and Benzema.

Or do something like that but make sure Cahill is signed for whatever he costs. I really don’t know much about Scott Dann or Jan Vertonghen but please not Jagielka, he’s too old, not tall enough and gets a lot of injuries, however if they want Bendtner, then play hardball, Jagielka although not perfect, is better than we currently have.

A contradiction I know, but Squillaci, Djourou and Koscielny are just not working.

Get Mata and a world class left back, all that will be possible with the money we get from sales and the transfer budget, but please, please don’t spunk it up the wall on a bumper pay rise for someone who doesn’t want to be at our club anymore.

The fact that Cesc is all but missing pre-season training the writing is on the wall for all but the dumbest, and for our captain that is unforgivable.

What is funny though and I hope Fabregas was watching, that they signed Sanchez for £37mil in total and they only offered £27mil for him, they won the lot last year and still go out and spend large, is there a lesson in there somewhere? You don’t see them signing 3 – 18 year olds do you???

As for the boss getting heated up with Mancini and Xavi well I’m afraid he really can’t say too much as he himself tapped up Wiltord (who threatened to go on strike) Chamakh who we got for nothing, Benzema who is a Madrid player and Eden Hazard who is a player that interests him.

Tapping up happens in football, it’s part and parcel of the game, the trick is to do some of your own, but do it before they do it to us.

Keeping someone that clearly wants out by doubling their wages isn’t clever management, it’s bribery, its not something we should be associated with and trying to keep personel to save ones ego is not good management, anyone can throw money at a problem, look at Man City and Chelsea, time to move on Arsene.

Wenger has had a few great squads in his time, sold a lot of top players and has bounced back, we lost Anelka to bully boys Madrid but got Henry, who was infinitely better, he should take heart from that and go and buy another few great players, but you can’t value Cesc at £45mil and say Cahill isn’t worth £17mil. That isn’t very smart.

You can’t sell Kolo for £15mil and say Samba isn’t worth £12mil 2 years on, I think the boss needs to look deep and stop trying to get cheap players in one end and sell them at top dollar the other. People have sussed that old Chestnut out.

He proved last year that holding out for a £2mil keeper and losing, cost us a lot more than buying him for £4mil. We pissed off the existing keepers and that showed, time to bite the bullet and re-build a new team around people that want to play for us.

If Gervinho had taught me something today, it’s that no one is bigger than the Arsenal, that includes Nasri, Cesc and Arsene Wenger.

I still believe he can win us more trophies, but for me he has to change, get the tools to do the job boss, the team will then pick itself.

Even Vieira is now saying we need to buy bigger more intimidating players, perhaps that’s why he didn’t join us, he would have given Wenger it straight, and we all know that can’t happen at ‘My way or the highway FC’ don’t we!

Sorry for the really early post, I am on my way to the airport so if anyone is caught in moderation they will have to wait until at least 2pm to get released, be patient people, I will be in the air, again I apologise!

Have a great day Grovers, next up it’s Cologne or Koln as the Germans call it! Why on earth are we playing them? Anyone?