Why this is the worst Arsenal team

Someone clearly has a lot on his mind

Arsene Wenger’s name will forever be synonymous with Arsenal for the innovation and the transformation he bought to the club. The Frenchman transformed Arsenal not only into a recognized club, but also a global brand. This happened when Wenger took the Gunners into the 21^st century as he masterminded the move to the higher capacity Emirates Stadium. The move, however, placed financial constraints on Arsenal which meant that Wenger had to resort to potential talents and bargain buys to keep them competitive. While in the short Arsenal did keep within touching distance with Chelsea and Manchester United, but the drawbacks of using young and experience soon told. Arsenal would always fall apart at important points of the season. So with long term in mind in mind Arsenal acquired the services of Petr Cech, Mesut Ozil, Santi Carzola, Shkodran Mustafi, Olivier Giroud, Per Mertesacker and Alexis Sanchez.

The above mentioned players standout from their recent recruits as they fulfilled the criteria which Gunners required to make them winners again firstly because they were experienced internationals. Moreover, they had had varying degrees of success winning silverware either at international or club level. So it comes as a concern to see them perform even worse than when they had fresh faced teens and twenty-year-olds in their team.

Even the players who remained from Wenger’s rebuild have not lived up to the billing they once showed in their youth. The names of Jack Wilshire and Theo Walcott standout as examples as their careers have stalled in recent times.

Recent additions over the past few seasons in the Arsenal set-up in the forms of Alex Iwobi, Hector Bellerin, Granit Xhaka and Sead Kolisinac are also following suit. These four were seen as players with great potential yet somehow they look nothing like the players they promised to be before arriving that the Emirates. Kolisinac’s case is the most notable as before he left Hoffenheim he was rated highly in the Bundesliga.

Essentially, all this comes down to the current environment at Arsenal where complacency and a loser mentality are prevalent where the bare minimum seems to be enough for the players, but unfortunately in the Premier League time doesn’t stand still and Arsenal’s current predicament has been a long time coming. and provides the lesson if stay in the same place for too long you run the risk of getting run over.