Arsenal midfielder Andrey Arshavin believes manager Arsene Wenger should sign important players if the Gunners are to fight for silverware this season.

Arsenal qualified for the next stage of the Champions League with ease after a 2-0 win over Standard Liege but the Russian is quoted as saying by the News of the World:

Arsene needs to buy new players and expensive ones. All the talented and inexpensive players are already with us and the players who could really boost our power are all costly to bring in.

I realise that if we buy a star, someone in the squad will be rejected but this is fair. It is the manager’s job to decide such things.

On his overall performance this season, the Russian added:

I can say that this season the only game I played really well was against Olympiacos. In the rest of the matches I was not so good. I was not dynamic enough in performances.