Piers Morgan will not be alone in hoping his friend Cristiano Ronaldo signs for Arsenal. Pep Guardiola, one imagines, will be a big fan of the idea, too.
Having sold Mikel Arteta one of the hardest-working centre forwards in football, Gabriel Jesus, plus his now first-choice left back, Oleksandr Zinchenko, then watching Arteta's rejuvenated Arsenal establish a five-point gap on Manchester City, Guardiola must be wondering what can be done to rein in the league leaders.
Sign an increasingly ineffectual and disruptive 37-year-old egomaniac who was once the best player in the world, but still acts as if he is, even if his best days are behind him, and will take a torch to team spirit if anyone so much as veers from a fawning narrative.