Signing Barton might be the most positive thing to happen to the club for years. It would signal a complete rejection of Wenger's project and that might be sufficient to finally snap us back into the football world and out of the fantasy we've been enduring. Doesn't mean we'd have to play him, except maybe under special circumstances. Who could honestly say they wouldn't like to see Barton come on against Stoke? Can you imagine the media? Barton at Arsenal? LOL.