Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
Just struggling to understand why you think Gervinho is looking the better signing.

I accept that it's early days for Gervinho and he has shown promise but if I'm being honest he looks to me like he's very much a Project/Work in Progress type player, I think Wenger has a lot of work to do to get Gervinho playing at a high level every week.

Mata on the other hand has looked as if he's hit the ground running, he's not an unknown quantity, he's pretty much the finished product. Wenger wouldn't have needed to do much work if any on Mata IMHO but that's the difference 10million makes I suppose.
Mata would have failed at us IMO he is that small weak type player that doesn't do well ( I am looking at your Theo here) Gervinho is bigger, stronger and looks like he has a bit of will about him that he will need here. IMO he is the better signing for us. Of course i would have had both but hey ho