Paul Merson tells Arsenal to make Watford star "better than Lucas Torreira"

The former Arsenal player, Paul Merson, urged his former club to take steps to replace Abdoulaye Doucoure of Watford in the transfer market, saying it was better than Lucas Torreira.

Doucoure was strongly linked to the January move to Paris Saint-Germain, which impressed at Vicarage Road over the last 18 months.

But Merson hopes that the Gunners will be able to tempt the Frenchman to the Emirates, as he would help protect their often vulnerable back, and would be an upgrade to Torreira, which he said would not fit in the top five teams in the Premier League. League.

"Arsenal are now showing their true colors, and until they sort the defense, they will not be able to achieve anything," Merson told Sky Sports.

"Unai Emery will need some windows to solve this problem, but the drives they bought were not great.

"Everyone was excited about Lucas Torreira, but he's not very good, I said a few months ago and everyone smelled nauseating.

"It looks good, it's all that Arsenal has needed for a long time: someone to run and get on the line. But if you put it on sale tomorrow, no the top five clubs in the Premier League would not be interested.

"They should sign Abdoulaye Doucoure in Watford, he will join the team and I will take him tomorrow morning.

"He is a much better player than Torreira and he scores goals and he is one of the lowest ranked players in the Premier League – he could play in one of the top six.

"It seems no one is paying attention to him because he's playing for Watford and the fans will say," Why do we buy it, it's Watford? "- but he is a good player."