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One of Wenger's many questions during this summer should be how to produce winning football when the team is not clicking, either through lack of confidence or injury. This is part of the reason why Arsenal more than our rivals end up falling into a ditch without being able to climb out. Chelsea and Manchester United play more functional football that does not rely as much on combinations and movement and more importantly confidence  so when they do not play well, they are still more than capable of beating the opposition. More often than not, we need to play well to win games.
Going back to Van Persie's comments, he is correct. It is down to the players to show that they can

Story number 3 Clichy to leave, last year of his contract, hasn't signed a new deal and no updates on progress of negotiations. This one might have legs, Clichy is Arsenal's longest serving player and so clearly has some loyalty to the club. The story goes Clichy wants Arsenal to sign big name(again) players before he signs a new deal but hang on a second has Clichy even been offered a new deal? no one at Arsenal or Clichy himself said anything about talks over a new deal.Clichy has according to all sides regressed over the last 3 years, just when he was starting to fulfil his potential he turned around

Back in my school days I didn't have such beauties such as the Internet, Caught offside, Tribal Football and Twitter, instead I used to phone premium numbers. It wasn't premium numbers that young boys usually call either, it was for Arsenal gossip. Unfortunately back then I was stupid enough to believe what they were saying (in slow motion I may add) was somewhere near the truth instead of a money making scam to rip off gullible young folk. If Twitter was around back then, then perhaps I wouldn't have been banned from using the phone at home. Ah, those were the days. Days of Andy Sinton and 

If he was from Norway and playing for a mid-table club he would have joined Liverpool for £3.5 million. Exactly the same talent and player but different circumstance. I wish more people would separate quality with price. I am surprised that this mix up still exists when Gooners are watching the likes of Cesc and Van Persie every week, or given their injury records over the years every three weeks

Players who have muscled their way into their clubs are the likes of Ryo Miyaichi, Francis Coquelin, Benik Afobe and Kyle Bartley to name a few. The likes of Afobe are still too young and will almost certainly go back on loan, perhaps at a higher level. Coquelin could return to Arsenal, perhaps dependant on the future of Emmanuel Eboue as the Frenchman has performed well in both right or central defensive

As is the case with the exploitation of natural resources, the less developed the region, the cheaper you can buy the resource and the more profit you can ultimately make. As such it is never in the best interest of those buying the resources to develop the region of origan. And this much can be said to be true in a footballing sense. While teams do want to improve a certain amount of the footballing

Firstly everyone's favourite Arsenal midfielder (Denilson, not Cesc) has rubbished talk of wanting to leave because of our lack of trophies, instead clarifying that he wanted to try a different league. He wants to find a good European club and if not he wants to go back to Brazil for six months. I don't

A well rumoured signing is Real Madrid's Karim Benzema, I really like Benzema and see him as a replacement ofr Thierry Henry not just in goals but style he drifts to the left wing often to pick up the ball has a great turn of pace and brilliant first touch also a clinical finisher and a threat in the air. Many Arsenal fans would love to see an imitation of the Henry Bergkamp front line that brought us so much

So that's six years without a trophy. Let me think, who does that remind me of? Hmm, let's see, oh yeah, Arsenal. We have gone six years without a trophy whilst we have invested in youth such as Fabregas, van Persie, Walcott, Song and Wilshere but to name a few. Just like Barcelona did in between 99 and 05. This was the time when Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique and Messi were coming