It is probably time to stop buying United’s rejects

Given the purchase of Danny Welbeck has not gone to plan, you would think Arsene Wenger had learnt. Clearly not.

It is never a good look to sell your rival clubs your very best players but only buy their rejects.

That is an all too familiar story for Arsenal and Wenger and Smalling would just be another in a long line of players the Gunners could not do better than.