Wenger: We didn't need Berbatov at that time

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Date	Time	C	Opponent	F	A	R	S
09 Jan	8:00 PM	LC	Tottenham Hotspur (H)	1	1	Draw

Manager Arsène Wenger has admitted that he almost signed Tottenham star Dimitar Berbatov but didn't "need" the forward at the time.

Berbatov is now the subject of a £31 million price tag, and Wenger agrees that the Bulgarian is "top class".

Wenger said: "He is top class. He always has time on the pitch and when you play against him he is always in the places you don't want him to be.

"He is what I call a top class striker because he can provide, he can score, he can be at the start of the move and at the end of it. That is a sign of quality.

"When he played for Bayer Leverkusen, I noticed him once when he played against Real Madrid. He was a young boy at the time, but we were never in need of him.

"We had Thierry Henry, we had Robin van Persie. Then we got [Emmanuel] Adebayor, but I have known about him for a long time.

"I look always more at the individual quality of a player first and Berbatov had technical top quality, he is tall, in England it helps.

"When building a team in England sometimes you think on set-pieces not only offensively, but defensively you don't want to be caught."

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