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Football whist recognising the undoubted impact of individual brilliance is a team sport. By definition, as repeatedly reiterated by mangers, the chemistry of each group forms the crux of results achieved throughout the marathon spanning the league season. When we purchased Ozil and Sanchez I won’t deny I revelled in the excitement of having players renowned worldwide at our disposal. However, had we purchased Aubamyeng, Verrati, Stones, Koulibaly, Pogba in one transfer window I would’ve been deflated. Yes, we may have been treated to the spectacle of the Arsenal squad jumping in jubilance as they brandished the coveted PL trophy whilst parading in front of euphoric fans atop a bus, yes years of goading by our cocky Chelsea and United supporting mates would instantly be rendered history and indeed our roles may even be reversed

what does Arsenal need to do to win title? Instead of doing a “5 things Arsenal need to do” (The rather common clickbait article), I thought of actually going through the fixture list and seeing how we are placed to win the title. A lot of sites are predicting that the title will be won at around 80-82 points. Considering the upper limit, Let us see how we can get those 82 points. Currently, We have 39 points and We have 19 more games to go. To simplify things, I have divided the fixtures into 3 categories

The reality is that such simple analysis is flawed in the sense that no two seasons are ever the same and on a broader level the competitive landscape has constantly changed, and continues to do so, particularly from 2003 onwards. The two team domination of the period to 2005 has given way to at least a three team challenge and arguably as many as five. Nor does a competitive balance between two halves of a season ever remain constant. Three or four easier or tougher games in a 19 game sequence can easily result in fewer or greater number of points collected without indicating any genuine inconsistency in performance capability

Many could be forgiven for thinking that these problems were coming to a halt as they saw Szczesny put in a bold league debut during the 1-0 defeat at Old Trafford in 2010. This was unfortunately not the case. Szczesny showed much promise during his early days in the Arsenal goal; Unfortunately, much of the "potential" shown has never been fully realised. Several high profile blunders and sub-par performances have led to his place as number one being put under scrutiny. His

The self proclaimed "reasonable" middle ground often depicts the fanbase to be a bunch of poor cherubs, who are nothing like the "extremists", but are being mistreated by their "cruel" club. Some of them claim objectivity to the point of forcibly opposing the natural bias that goes with being a fan like it is something malicious and wicked to be avoided. They take this middle ground position of theirs to the point of militancy about how they're the true objective and reasonable ones and because of that nothing can ever be said about them. There are even some who simply sit on the fence the whole time to see which way the wind sways and jump in to sound like one with the majority and will flip flop the other way just as quickly. Well guess what, none of

Our problems are no longer financial, at least less so. The club has more stability therefore it can buy players of Ozil's and Sanchez's quality that can come and immediately have an impact. Personally i am not a big fan of Mezut, who i think is a great talent, but don't particularly see him as a great purchase when we could have gotten someone like Suarez or a player more suited to our needs at that particular time. Getting him felt like a statement, and i believe we needed that to

There’s also a large group of fans spending money every season on new shirts, regardless of which player the club attracts. Only the small group of people that buys a shirt 'just because of player X', can be considered as newly added revenue. For example, when we bought Özil we sold 15k replicas in the first week. The majority (let’s say 10k) would have probably chosen for Ramsey or another player on the back had we not signed Özil. So the real shirt earning of this particular transfer is

Against Chelsea, there was a massive opportunity for him and indeed the entire team to right some wrongs after last season’s mauling & our long standing struggle to beat the big teams. Özil is a hugely gifted, world class player who has the ability to be the difference in a game. With the best will in the world, it won't always be the case

In my view all this serves to do is undermine the true reality of players contributions and performances. I think some bloggers would derive satisfaction from Arsenal failing in order to satisfy their own sense of self importance. The reality is that it damages the clubs reputation (I can't imagine how the 'next' Sanchez or Özil will assess the possible press they'll get if they are not banging in a hat trick every other game) and creates a press frenzy as more half witted journalists and media reporters, write and rewrite more negative articles in return for clicks, shares or likes. Even TV commentators regurgitate the rubbish that is pushed out.

Maybe the real crux of the issue was that Wenger simply wouldn't play what was needed to land the players we were interested in & who were available? It's hard to imagine that he wasn't at least looking to bring in another defender. That he's opted to go in to the season with only two experienced centre backs is astonishing, Last season I felt we just about got away with having only 3 centre backs plus Sagna as back up so to have even fewer options this season is impossible to defend. With the Debuchy injury, it is already coming back to haunt us. Just think what might happen if Mertesacker or Koscielny picked up a