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What's the general feeling on this one? In my opinion it's not a very good piece of business at all. £24m for a player running down his contract who is almost 30 and will have no resell value is ridiculous. His fee seems to have been based on last season alone - which is the only season he played without injury. It could pay off but it's a huge gamble.

A lot of money, but if he plays like he did last season, then it is the signing of the summer, they will get 3-4 good years out of him. If he plays well they win trophies

I see Torres all over again with more injuries. Could of gone down as a legend but will probably just end up as one of those guys that was never really liked in the end.

If he's been regularly injured in his early-mid twenties then what hope is there that he is fitter/stronger a few years down the line? If he stays fit the gamble will have paid off and the league title is theirs again. Utd only lost out to city by 1 goal and that was with quite a few long term injuries - they even had to bring scholes out of retirement!

They did the same with Berbatov didn't they? He had a great season for them.

Arsenal are going to have trouble this year which leaves us amongst the hunting pack for 4th place.

United can sign as many players as they like on high wages = MORE DEBT for them

we can only hope!! but you known what they are like, he probably be better than last season, also they have so many good attacking options so he won't have to play every game

I really despise Arsenal for selling their captain to their rivals, reverse the roles and United would never have done business with any of the top title contenders, its a real shame and to me a sad day in football when rivals do business involving not any fringe player but a captain. I really hope this comes back and bites arsenal on the arse big time, hopefully they will be out of the top 4.

He is worth the money if he can keep his form up from last season.

I think it's down to RVP and what he wants, not what Arsenal want. Do you think for a second they wanted Manure to get him? The hate manchester almost as much as we do.

They can still say no to United, they have a contract with him for another year but they wanted to make a profit like they always do in typical Arsenal fashion. If Rooney wanted to come to Liverpool do you think Fergie will allow him? fat chance.

Great player, though I'm shocked Wenger sold him to Fergie. No way that does anything less than drive an even larger wedge between the two sides in the league.

Dare we hope to benefit? Yes, I think we might well - Last season was desperately close at the top, so the same thing might happen again, and while United are expected to still be too strong for us, Arsenal might just have thrown us a lifeline.