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Arsenal will say no to Bale

The Gunners are playing some good football of late and have backed it up with great results. They even held the mighty Liverpool at bay but they may just not have what it takes to win the Premier League.

According to analyst John Hartson, the only difference between Manchester City and Arsenal is that the former uses the transfer market to sign the best players in the world while the latter don’t walk the same path, citing the example by using former Tottenham star Gareth Bale as an analogy.

“No disrespect to Arsenal, if say for argument's sake, a Gareth Bale becomes available [they won’t go in]. I know he’s ex-Spurs and it may not happen,” he said.

“But if a top player like that became available and he’s £95m with £40m wages over the next four years, will they go in for him? They might not.

“But someone like City would and they have. It’s going to take investment, time with Emery and backing from the football club for Arsenal to come close to challenging again.”

To be fair to the Gunners, however, they have spent the money of late on players like Aubameyang and Lacazette.