Arsenal should and could make a move to sign free agent Yaya Toure this summer, with the former Manchester City star still available.

Coming to the end of hiss illustrious playing career, Toure is still a free agent after failing to agree a new contract to stay with the Manchester based club.

Reports suggested Pep Guardiola was no longer interested in keeping the aging star as he already has a number of younger, fresher and more versatile players already in the side.

And he and his agent have announced that the 35-year old is looking to stay in the Premier League, with a whole host of clubs linked with a move.

One of those clubs that has been linked is Arsenal, with boss Unai Emery seeking to add experience to his squad, a move to the Emirates seemed like a real possibility.

Toure was reportedly earning over £200,000-a-week towards the end of his time in Manchester, though he will struggle to reach anywhere near that amount if he finds a new team.

But with Granit Xhaka failing to impress this season and Lucas Torreira needing time to adjust to the physicality of the Premier League, the signing of Toure could be a masterstroke by Emery, if he made the move.

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville thinks recruiting the 35-year-old could help resolve some of the talk that Arsenal do not have enough mettle in the midfield.

He was quoted earlier on the transfer window on the TalkSport website: “We were talking about Arsenal, about having that strength in midfield, the character and the leadership.

“To be fair they could do worse than maybe have him for a season to sort out the culture in there.

“You’d have to play him in midfield; you couldn’t play him at the back.

“You’d have to play him in midfield and get people around him with legs.

“In his first three or four seasons in the Premier League, he was outstanding, he was one of the most dominant forces.

“You talk about (Vincent) Kompany, Yaya Toure, (David) Silva, (Sergio) Aguero; they are the Manchester City players who mostly transformed Manchester City from being nowhere near winning a title to being champions of England.”

Here is what we think.

Despite his age, Toure would bring alot of top-level expereince to the Arsenal side have conqured both La Liga with Barcelona and then the Premier League with City. So while he is coming to the end of his career, why not give him a one-year deal?