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The ultimate horror of horrors would be dropping out of the Champions League spots for the first time under Arsene Wenger’s reign. It would come as a shock to the system. And it would be imperative that we bounced back into the top-four next season. But naturally, this would be all the more taxing if it adversely impacted on our squad. We’d stand a bigger chance of losing players, whilst attracting signings would be even more difficult. A player who we may have wanted to sign could justifiably ditch us for a team that was to

Stoke City away needs to be our Sunderland FA Cup game or our Tottenham away match. Basically we need to show some backbone and produce our best under pressure because make no mistake about it, we are under pressure and the only way to relieve that pressure is to win against Norwich at lunchtime on Saturday. I am already cacking myself about that game so I don't know how I am going to survive on Saturday. Theo Walcott has spoken about the need to vary his game and not

I am not coming from a position of any real knowledge of the two players in question. I either haven't seen them live or if I have, not close enough to notice them. I just cannot quite get my head around the Vertonghen interest. Interest is the wrong word because clearly he seems like a very good player. Captain of Ajax, a good footballer and a leader. Who wouldn't want that in their team? What I am struggling with is a captain who is looking for a big move, coming to a club to play second fiddle

Look at the teams that have improved from last season. Tottenham for example did not lose any players, brought in good players for their standard and improved. The difference between them and us in August and September was huge, not because of the quality of player as we see today but for the continuity and momentum that they had and we had completely lost after having to rebuild the squad. Fans often say that transition is an excuse but you can see the difference an

My message to the haters is this: I cannot urge you enough to continue to follow the mantra 'In Arsene we trust', to follow the man with the sleeping bag looking coat, the man with that symbolic red tie, and to ignore the likes of Piers Morgan championing the term 'In Arsene we rust'. You must must must must MUST have faith, he is the man and we will return soon enough. With the announcement today that Pep Guardiola will be stepping down from Barcelona at the end of the season to take a few years out, much talk has emerged

Robin van Persie is more than due a goal from open play as he hits his first rut of the season and it will be interesting to see how he combines with Gervinho. When Gervinho replaced the hamstrung Walcott last weekend, he looked sharp and immediately gave us a link from the right of the pitch, something that Theo was struggling to do in that game.

Vela, Bendtner, Chamakh and Park could all seek pastures new. Benik Afobe may not yet be ready after his injury this season, Joel Campbell has not been able to establish himself in the way that Vela has for example and moving to Arsenal is an obvious step up in quality. So with four strikers possibly leaving and one supposedly arriving *pulls out high tech

We move on, Arsenal FC move on and it is all about the future. We do not know if that will be with our captain or without, whatever happens I think we are in good shape to look forward but needless to say, we would rather look forward with van Persie on board. His goals are one thing, quite a big thing at that. His assists are another but it is his leadership that has

Another person who has not yet been linked to Arsenal but whom I feel we should seriously look at is Mathieu Flamini . The combative central midfielder is a free agent come this summer and we will definitely need another midfielder because there is the African Cup of Nations. There is a chance we may lose both Alex Song and Emmanuel Frimpong during this period and even though we have Fracis Coquelin whom almost every Gooner rates highly he is still relatively young and therefore prone to occasional lapse in concentration . That role is too important in our team to rely on only the youngster to do the

What’s been frustrating of late, has been watching us look out of ideas with no real ‘Plan B’, looking predictable and so unable to penetrate the oppositions defence with our passing, for all Van persie’s great attributes, being an aerial threat isn’t one of them and if we are to really challenge for silverware next season we are going to have to have answers for these types of situations, (I’m thinking Wolves at home, Sunderland away, QPR away, Wigan home) and by answers yes I mean a target man. What we need isn’t only a target man but in a sense a complete striker, like a Dider Drogba if you like, a striker who with his physical presence can cause the opposition