Arsenal legend Nigel Winterburn has warned the Gunners' current crop they are not too good to go down.
Winterburn was part of a star-studded West Ham side that dropped out of the Premier League in 2003 and reckons Arsenal are in a relegation dogfight.
Mikel Arteta's men sit 15th in the table after 14 matches having picked up just four victories.
They are four points clear of 18th-placed Fulham who currently occupy the final relegation spot.
West Brom boss Sam Allardyce insisted that the Gunners are one of the clubs fighting against the drop this season, and Winterburn agrees things are "desperate".
He told The Sun: “When I left Arsenal and went to West Ham in my last season we had a fantastic team — but we got relegated.
“But we couldn’t win a game of football. You go out with all good intentions, you might play well to start with, and you can’t score and boost that confidence.
“All of a sudden you get an individual error or you get a player sent off and your backs are against the wall, and you go on to not win the game.
“That’s exactly what happened at West Ham for a long period of time. I see similar things happening at Arsenal."
Arsenal are without a win in their last seven Premier League matches and crashed out of the Carabao Cup at the quarter-final stage with a humbling 4-1 defeat by Manchester City on Tuesday night.
That result ramped up the pressure on Arteta who is fighting to save his job, with Thomas Tuchel now on the market after he was relieved of his duties at Paris Saint-Germain.
Nigel Winterburn was speaking following the launch of free-to-play fantasy football jackpot game Fantasy5.
