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What does this mean for the club? I feel that Arsenal suffered at times from Song falling in love with his clear development into a CM rather than the DM position the club needed. He was excellent in attack, sometimes, but failed to track back often and Arsenal paid the price defensively more often than Song was able to deliver those wonderful chip passes. The frequency with which Song started to rely on those passes led to Arsenal having the ball less and being more

As you can see, Walcott and Chamberlain find themselves quite some way behind the pace with minute totals above the average of the nine in all four categories. Walcott creates a chance only once every 67 minutes, more than double the time it takes Antonio Valencia, Nani or Silva to do likewise. It’s a similar story with minutes per assist, and I’m afraid Theo favours even worse even when it comes to

So van Persie is gone and we will miss his quality. But I think we can be significantly better without him if other factors work in our favor. Naturally, our three new marquee signings all have to integrate effectively and relatively quickly. Last season our attack was remarkably dependent on van Persie’s contributions. At times it looked like the team was standing around waiting for him to do something

Not only is the Arsenal Academy nowadays recognises as amongst the best in England and indeed Europe, Arsenal’s scouting network, system and approach are second to absolutely none. In fact, whenever other clubs are linked to players, I can see Wenger sitting in his chair, reading the news, going ‘pah, we scouted him four years ago. He runs ok for twenty minutes, but tires very quickly. Good luck signing him!’. It is also important to realise that these things are gonna help is immensely in the long run. What it also reminds me off, is how close we got to doing things right. Arsenal missed out on Cristiano Ronaldo because Ferguson trumped us, but we had longer standing interest. We missed out on Angel di Maria and Lionel Messi who we had deals to sign, but fell through in the paperwork stage.

kind of sparkle to the club’s prestige. We won’t see him bust a gut, sadly, like that amazing run he did to score his fourth at Anfield, but as an experienced, well liked (with RvP out of the picture, that is) and very intelligent part of the squad, I bet many of our youngsters can learn a lot from him. Indeed, I always get the feeling players like Wilshere love playing with Arshavin, because he does understand their genius. Perhaps his effort and his wages are too far apart for Wenger, the board

Stevan Jovetic who has constantly been linked with us is one player that I see would fit into our current crop, Skilful, eye for the final pass and also good movement in and around the area. The stumbling block is the huge price tag(€25m) on him. We don't do huge figures so we are likely gonna pass except Fiorentina would take a minimal fee being accompanied with Marouane Chamakh. Good business for both sides seeing that Fiorentina wants Chamakh and also

Arsenal are a tad naive, I can imagine. We all thought he would sign, at some point in the last few weeks. Even the club thought so. But van Persie took all that trust away today with the way he treated us. I loved you, Robin. As @arseblog said in his blog: Emotional investment in footballers is a dangerous thing, you’re nearly always likely to end up disappointed and dismayed I am trying to get less attached to players but the way you played, captained and the nationality you carried made you an obvious candidate for being loved by me. How have you repaid all those Arsenal fans? By giving

This is where I strengthened my believe that Vieira is and should remain as a club legend. Over the last few seasons especially, I’m sure there has been at least a few games where you thought - “Where’s the desire lads?” or “They didn’t turn up today” or “They don’t look like they fancy it today”. Those are some of the accusations being thrown at the Arsenal teams for the last few seasons.