Source: Daily_Mail
Arsenal should sign Shay Given from Manchester City, insists Bob Wilson
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson believes Shay Given is the missing link to the Gunners' title bid.[LNB]Joe Hart has started the season as Manchester City's first-choice goalkeeper and Given has made it known he is not happy to be a long-term back-up to the England international.[LNB]Wilson acknowledged City may be reluctant to allow Given to join an immediate rival but said: 'Shay will say to himself 'do I have to be number two to Joe Hart all the time?' Players do have certain powers.[LNB] Set to move? Shay Given [LNB]'If Arsene [Wenger] and Arsenal felt it was Shay and not Mark Schwarzer, why not have a go for him?[LNB]'People talk about Joe's presence in the early games of the season and it looks like he's made his 18-yard box his stage. The great goalkeepers have a presence and belief and it's a long time since I've seen a goalkeeper as alert as Joe.[LNB]'But Shay has this as well. I used to think height-wise in the modern game Shay was an inch or two under what you needed but he's proved that wrong.[LNB]'If I had the choice, I'd love to see Shay sign. Adding Shay to Laurent Koscielny who has shown in a few games what a good buy he is, Thomas Vermaelen and Sebastien Squillaci plus the boys who are there... maybe that little misery [Jose] Mourinho who doesn't like Arsene very much and had a dig at him might have to admire Arsenal.'[LNB] Fulham boss Hughes set to raid former club City for Santa Cruz and GivenArsenal boss Wenger accuses Potters of turning football into rugbyARSENAL FC
