Foreign investment is the way forward if you want to even challenge at the top. When you see clubs that aren't doing as well like West Ham, Manchester City and Newcastle being chased by people with more money than sense, and you know that it makes sense. This is even more apparent when you see that those clubs winning everything have all recently become foreign-owned.

As an Arsenal fan, the sooner this happens to us the better. David Dein, one of the men ultimately responsible for bringing us the success we enjoyed before the foreign revolution, has recently resigned as vice-chairman, believed to be the result of the board not wanting to sell out, while he sees foreign ownership by his friend Stan Kroenke the future of Arsenal FC. There was a time when selling out was not the way forward. But in 2007, when your only lifeblood is talented youngsters, and there is little money to complement that talent immediately, you have problems.

I would love it, just love it, if Arsène Wenger's youngsters could guide us to glory next season and our captain Thierry Henry has already said that they can ''if everybody is fit and fresh''. But, as we have seen all too often this season, their inexperience has proved costly.

For all the revelations Wenger has unleashed in the last season or two, all the raw talent which can be nurtured over several years, we lack the ability to deal with more seasoned campaigners who know how to change the pace of the game to their benefit; who can grind out an ugly win if necessary, and ultimately can put the ball in the back of the net, any way, anyhow when it matters.

Take away an experienced player from Wenger's 2006/07 side and you worry at how they will cope with the pressure. Towards the end of the season there were times when I saw the team sheet and could only hope they would come through.

Emmanuel Eboue, who has signed a new long-term deal, has also done well to not only displace Lauren at right-back but effectively force him out of the club. Yet while the pace and talent is clear to see, he has yet to find a maturity in his game that can be so vital at pivotal moments in the season, an obvious example would be him losing his head in the Carling Cup Final against Chelsea in February.

Brazilian Under-20 captain Denílson and French international Abou Diaby both also played their way into Wenger's starting XI towards the end of the season, and will become the mainstays of the side when they have got the experience that can only come with playing with the best in the world alongside you. And, as most fans can appreciate, Cesc Fabregas has been magnificant.

As football fans, we are not patient people. Like children we want everything yesterday, and while I am happy for Mr Wenger to provide us with all of these fantastic youngsters, I want to be winning the Champions League and the Premiership and boasting about it to my Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool supporting friends and colleagues. And because I'm greedy, I want the domestic cups as a tasty side order as well. I want to see my club up there as champions of the best league in the world and the winners of the best knock-out competition in the world, not merely a 'top 4' club or a 'last 16' or 'quarter finals' club.

Over the last few years we have lost Sol Campbell, Lauren and Patrick Vieira, to name but a few experienced campaigners. With the exception of William Gallas replacing Campbell, we have not strengthened in areas that we've lost out in, and this will be our downfall until Wenger understands that the fans and the board do not want to wait for 2010 or whenever his youngsters become ready to win everything. If anything, his youngsters will develop more with experience around them, if, of course, they are world-class experienced.

This summer, Wenger needs to get into the transfer market and get us someone who knows how to find the goal when the going gets tough and we can't walk it into the net. Someone like a Robbie Fowler or an Andrew Cole type, but a wee bit younger - a traditional goal moocher.

They don't have to be first name on the team sheet, but when the going gets tough or we end up with injuries to Henry and Robin van Persie, we must have a Plan B. The now Newcastle United manager Sam Allardyce recently said: "Other managers used to have to find answers for me beating them. You can call it a long ball or a long pass. This is a big club, so they'll call it a long pass. They called it a long ball because they were jealous."

I agree that it doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't matter what you call it - sleek passing football is great to watch, only if it brings the result. If you have to resort to a more direct style à la the one often employed by Allardyce during his time at Bolton to get the goals to win, then that's what you have to do.

Wenger has already confirmed the signing of Polish goalkeeper Lukas Fabianski from Legia Warsaw, who will hopefully take over from Jens Lehmann in 2008/09 if not sooner.

The future is definitely bright for Arsenal, and if Henry is right then I am looking forward to the new season already.

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