Here is the Arsenal morning digest for Wednesday, May 27.
The Arsenal players who have the most to prove when season restarts
The Premier League season is edging closer to a restart and several Arsenal players will be looking to prove themselves to manager Mikel Arteta.
The Gunners’ squad is set to remain as it is for the remainder of the current campaign, but changes are expected when the transfer window reopens.
Arteta will be looking to improve in certain areas, while those players who have not convinced may be offloaded.
football.london have taken a look at the four players with the most to prove when Arsenal return to action.
Arteta can learn from Arsenal’s past transfer mistakes
Arsenal’s decision to sell Mathieu Flamini in 2008 is the kind of mistake Mikel Arteta must avoid if he is to guide the club back to the very top of the English game.
The Frenchman, though not one of the Gunners most revered players, added necessary steel and bite in an otherwise lightweight midfield.
And Arsenal, in the years after Flamini’s departure, prioritised too many technical midfielders.
This often meant they were far too exposed defensively.
Arteta, who has so far considerably improved Arsenal’s defensive record since taking over from Unai Emery, may look to Lucas Torreira to provide the kind of edge that has been lacking since the days of Patrick Vieira and Gilberto Silva.
Looking back at Arsenal’s last golden generation
Yesterday marked 11 years since Arsenal’s Under-18s beat Liverpool to win the club’s last Youth Cup.
A talented group of young players had too much for their opposition, finishing as 6-2 aggregate winners.
Much was expected of the Arsenal prospects in that team, which included the likes of Jack Wilshere, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and Henri Lansbury.
For the most part, though, they did not live up to expectations in the years to come.
Most of the players from the 2009 Youth Cup are now 28, so their careers have taken shape.
