"Football is not a sport is a mixture of business mafia and mental illness." Simon Heffer, a columnist in the conservative magazine The Spectator. Once again, they have jumped this week rumours that Real Madrid will make an offer by Cristiano Ronaldo that neither the player nor his club, Manchester United, may reject. But if one stops to think a little you will see that there are more cost-effective options. For example, by clocking-more or less what it would cost the Portuguese-four young players of Arsenal. Specifically, a Togolese, a Belarusian, a Dutch and a Spanish: Emmanuel Adebayor, Alexander Hleb, Robin van Persie and Cesc Fábregas.

Cristiano Ronaldo goals and bring some excitement to this boot colt who has with the ball at his feet. But the quartet Arsenal offer more: in addition to goals, a collective beauty in the game that long ago that there is not at the Bernabeu or nowhere. Okay, it is difficult for the four want to leave Madrid and London, Arsène Wenger by Bernd Schuster. It is difficult, frankly, that even one of them wants change of scenery, showing what was right that Real Madrid in the attempts he made a few years ago by clocking the French coach. He has the gift to buy good players for little money and turn them into cracks, and your palate is exquisite football.

Wenger fichó to Adebayor by 10 million euros for a couple of seasons. Comprarlo today for three times more would be a bargain. There is talk that Cristiano Ronaldo would cost 100 million euros. So, Adebayor, who has just one year more than the Portuguese (24), has only two goals less marked in the Premier League (19) and gives the feeling that it might end up being a player so critical for Arsenal as the best Thierry Henry, who never, sadly, we will see. Adebayor not have the elegance of Henry, but it has everything else. It is a classic centre forward, big and good in the air at the best game style English, but with skill African feet.

Van Persie had a spectacular season boot-five goals in four matches, but was injured in one of these international meetings that pollute the months of September and November, and still is not hundred per cent. The strange thing is that, when one speaks in Spain possible transfers of large, not to mention young Dutch. Have goal, Brazil has finesse, and if his compatriot Robben costing 36 million, he is worth twice. Although, given the irrationality of cloudy market transfers, surely you could buy by 25.

Hleb is a player who passes almost unnoticed outside England and his native country despite the dance gave Madrid in the Bernabeu for a couple of seasons. The telepathic partnership it has with his friend Cesc Fábregas (the young general, which is not to say there is nothing more) is the main reason that the best Arsenal this season has been a devastating machine watches.

Hopefully winning Milan in the Champions, as they should have earned for justice in their stadium. It is absurd that there were Arsenal and Liverpool will happen, a team that offers a telling example of what happens when it is believed that a crack clocking is the magic solution to the ills of a team. Fernando Torres (15 goals, the third top scorer in the League) is a fabulous player in a team vulgar. Cristiano Ronaldo, alone is not a solution. Even so, necessarily, the Four Buenísimos Arsenal. The only way to guarantee success is really Arsène Wenger. There is no player who is worth more than him.