The problems with the current team, laid bare for all to see (read): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...artin-Keown-life-Arsenal-Dennis-Bergkamp.html They make very good points. Keown: What about Arsenal now? Why have they lost their way? Bergkamp: When I look at Robin van Persie, he is the front player, but he is better in my old role. They are missing an out-and-out goalscorer. Now they play with an extra midfielder instead. Keown: They changed it to accommodate Cesc Fabregas, didn't they? But he's gone now. Bergkamp: The midfielders are all the same sort of players. You need one who wants to get in behind Van Persie. Keown: The defence is vulnerable, too. Bergkamp: We were spoilt back then. In training sometimes I couldn't understand how I was offside. Keown: Dennis, if you'd been on Mars for the last two years, you'd never have believed what had happened to Arsenal, would you? What can Wenger do now? Bergkamp: I know he's the one who will be struggling the most. But with his experience, it'll be OK. Keown: There are lots of former players who could offer something at Premier League clubs. It's a shame that hasn't been embraced like it has here. Bergkamp: There was talk of Patrick going to Arsenal during the summer. I would've done everything possible to get him there. Just to get him in and around the dressing room. It would have brought so much to the team.
I really hoped we'd bring Vieira in this summer, but I guess City made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Who knows, maybe he'll learn his trade at City and use his expertise at Arsenal? The two ex players that I think we should bring in are these two - Bergkamp has made no secret of his desire to become a coach at Arsenal and Keown would be a perfect defensive coach. If we have a crap season (which it looks like we might) I think the pressure to change things in the coaching set up will be immense. Maybe this will be the season where we see the likes of Bergkamp and Keown return?
Bon Many people it seems can see lot of things and it's disconcerting that not enough appears to be done to rectify matters. I really don't know what's with the direction of our team. I was listening to a broadcast on Talksport I think, at the weekend ( can't recall who the two were now, perhaps someone can help out here ) where there seemed to be a consensus that what the England Team are going through is reflected in our current situation. The discussion went along the lines of the manager no longer having the England Team and the two speakers felt it reminded them of Arsenal. Like many of us I trusted Arsene for years during his experiment . Now I think the best thing for him to do and it is because he seems unable to change things, is to let someone else have an opportunity. I'm not sure if bringing in coaches will necessarily help him unless he will allow them to get on with the job. It looks like he wants it his way and nothing else and that way as may be seen from our form, isn't working. In any given year since Arsene has been with us I would have simply said we would take all six points from Sunderland and Stoke. I just hope we do because several of the matches after that are not easy.
