Arsenal Transfer Scenario: Why the Gunners Need Christian Eriksen

Arsene Wenger has to find the solution to Arsenal's problems going forward. Nineteen-year-old Ajax prodigy Christian Eriksen is the answer.

The Danish starlet has all the qualities needed to restore the standard of Arsenal's attacking play to the lofty standards achieved during the Wenger era.

The latest rumours suggest Manchester United as a potential destination for Eriksen. But Arsenal should be bold and act quickly to fend off such strong competition for one of the brightest young talents in football.

Eriksen is blessed with uncanny speed of thought on the pitch. His quick decision making, coupled with the vision to spot openings around him, gives Eriksen keen creative instincts.

He would immediately become the inventive fulcrum in this Arsenal team. Eriksen's natural versatility would also appeal to Wenger.

The youngster's deceptive pace and trickery enables him to operate effectively in wide areas. But he also has the intelligence, awareness and tenacity to dictate play from a central position.

Under Wenger's tutelage Eriksen could develop into the chief central playmaker Arsenal are currently struggling to find.

Initially he would be invaluable filling in on the left side of the Gunners' forward line. His quickness, technique and eye for goal, would help Eriksen offer a similar threat to the one posed by club legend Robert Pires.

Eriksen is capable of producing deadly delivery from wide areas. This is an aspect of Arsenal's play that has deteriorated in the last month.

Theo Walcott seems to have slipped back into bad habits. The England international's decision making has become ponderous again.

Fellow wide forward Gervinho is too unpredictable. It must be difficult for his teammates to know what to expect when Gervinho himself rarely seems certain about what type of ball he is going to play into the box.

No such problems exist with Eriksen. His wide range of passes are delivered decisively and accurately.

Moving for Eriksen would give the Dane the chance to form arguably the finest young midifeld trio in world football by joining up with Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey.

All three are technically gifted players, whose touch, range of passing and creative inclinations puts them on the same wavelength.

Eriksen first came to the attention of Gunners fans in 2010, following a glowing recommendation from the club's greatest player ever, Dennis Bergkamp.

Praise form the one player who defined Arsenal's style under Wenger ought to be enough to prompt the club into action.

Signing Eriksen would solve the club's biggest dilemma. Arsenal's current problems in the attacking third stem from the insistence on playing their usual style without the player who made it possible.

Cesc Fabregas was the focal point of Arsenal's style for the past six years. Without the classy Spaniard to spot through passes and create chances, the Gunners are struggling to find routes to goal.

Landing Eriksen would give Arsenal a player with the attributes to exert the kind of influence Fabregas did.

Eriksen has the cunning, technique and eye for goal to return Arsenal's play to the free flowing, quick moving and fluid style that sets the Gunners apart from most teams in the game.

The required fee would be substantial, but just attempting to lure Eriksen to North London would prove to Gunners fans that the club still intends to act like a major player.

If the current squad is only supplemented with stop gap signings and no marquee additions arrive, there will be no Champions League football next season. Those financial implications will be far greater than parting with a big fee now.