Perry Groves believes Arsenal should try their best to lure Dimitar Berbatov to the Emirates if they want to boost their chances of winning the Premier League.

The Gunners are currently top, one point ahead of Manchester City, and have been linked with a host of strikers as the January transfer window looms large.

But Groves told Drive Time they would be wise to steal the veteran Bulgarian from Fulham for around £2million, with the forward known to fancy a move away from the relegation threatened Cottagers.

“The top teams aren’t going to let their best players go and you want quality to go in. You could probably get him [Berbatov] for a million or £2m for the last six months of his contract,” the Arsenal legend said.

“He is in a team that’s struggling because he won’t close full-backs down, he won’t go in the channels. But I think, he thinks he’s too good for Fulham. Sometimes his body language is, ‘what am I doing here? They can’t even feed me the ball’.

“If he goes to Arsenal he’s not going to think he’s better technically than the Arsenal players, he’ll think, ‘oh I’ve got players on my level’. Basically it’s a no brainer. If you got a year-and-a-half out of him, which I think you can, then he will be a brilliant option if you want to rest [Olivier] Giroud. He wouldn’t alter the team pattern at all.”