Waking up to the news that Joey Barton is being linked with your club is never good. Especially if you are an Arsenal fan.
Thinking of our links to the 28 year old from Liverpool, the one that sticks out is the relationship between him and Samir Nasri. You would like to think that Mr Wenger would not purchase a man, that is quite hated at the club. Well I would like to think that.
I do not want to go down the road of thinking what benefits he would bring to the club, because to my honest opinion, apart from a pretty good free kick, I cannot see any benefit what so ever of him in a red and white shirt.
I cannot imagine many players would welcome it and fans almost certainly would not. Apart from those who think that he would be perfect at tackling hard and roughing up teams. Not what Arsenal are about. I repeat. Not what Arsenal are about.
I think we have a 100 x better player in Jack Wilshere who can quite easily step up, roll his sleeves up and show his class, when the big boys start to get a bit gritty and physical. A midfielder is not what we want in my opinion, I just believe we just need a shoot on sight striker.
Much has been said about the Ivorian Gervinho. To be honest, I have not seen much of him. I have only seen the few snippets of him on on YouTube and he looks like the shoot on strike policy kinda striker. African players have a tendancy to be this kind of striker, think Eto’o and Gyan. Even though we do not really need a goal scoring striker as we have one of the best in the league in Robin Van Persie. I just believe that when he is not on form that we could do with someone to bring off the bench and if he gets a chance to smack one on target.
In my thoughts, I am a bit jealous of Hernandez. A player who came to England with no real repuation and scored 20 goals in his debut season. He had the killer instinct that we have looked for in the past. Such players, as Defoe and Owen have/had this clinical-ness. A player, who is not afraid of AND is good at shooting from the edge of the area when we are struggling to score.
So if we do sell our big Dane Nicklas Bendtner (which I am not happy about), then please Arsene buy us more Hernandez than…
