Given
Wilshere’s continued absence and the departures from the first team just days
after that comment, a challenge could certainly be made about Arsene Wenger's appraisal going into this season. Even without thinking of the
potential loss of Walcott, considering Sagna’s recovery, we are currently down
four players that would normally fill a spot in the starting eleven.
To
boot, we have merely one point more than this stage last season, and the same
number of goals scored. None. Cesc was already gone, Nasri left right after our
second match, and we had not yet made the last gasp trolley dash to fill out
the squad. We lost our top player and another who the season prior had his best period in an Arsenal shirt before upping sticks for more dosh. So being
winless after 2 matches and shorn of this summer's version of the players in
those roles above, does Wenger really have a leg to stand on with that
statement?
