Too late! Arsenal needed Podolski this season

On Tuesday, Milan beat Arsenal 4-3 on aggregate in the Round of 16 of the Champions League.

On Thursday morning we read that Podolski will sign from Cologne.

The striker-winger is 26 and will be on £100,000 a week.

His pal Mertesacker has told him it’s an amazing club and a great place to work.

Lukas Podolski is a proper player, like Vermaelen, like Wilshere and Oxlade.

He’s fast and a lethal finisher and he’ll do what Walcott and Gervinho pretend to do.

If you insist on playing 4-3-3, and I wouldn’t, he’ll give you firepower.

In a month Podolski will score more goals that Park and Chamakh have scored in a season.

Podolski will deliver. I’m sure of that.

But Arsenal have £100m+ in the bank.

Why didn’t Wenger sign him last summer?

Because he wouldn’t spend the money to give himself the tools to do the job that season-ticket holders expect him to do.