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Andrei Arshavin: Arsenal not strong enough to win the
Premier League this season
Andrei Arshavin believes Arsenal are lacking
the necessary strength in depth to realistically win the Premier League
title this season.
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Lacking something: Anderi Arshavin says Arsenal
need reinforcements in the squad before they can mount a realistic
title challenge / Photo: ACTION IMAGES
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Arsenal sit second in the table, two points behind Manchester
United and two ahead of Chelsea.
However, the Russian striker believes Arsenal's lack of summer signings
- along with injuries to Robin van Persie, Kieran Gibbs and Aaron Ramsey
- leaves them disadvantaged.
"I am still of the opinion that to win trophies Arsenal needs more
players," Arshavin told the Sun.
"There is the simple fact that last summer we sold two players and
bought only one. So there is an obvious deficit of at least one. Then
we lost Van Persie, Gibbs and Ramsey for a long time. So for me it is
natural we need new players.
"Without the variety of players we have less diversity in attack.
That allows our opponents to read our combinations more easily. Finally,
it results in less ball possession for us and our defence comes under
more pressure.
"The Premier League is very interesting, at least as long as we continue
fighting to win it. But without new experienced players, real stars, it
will be difficult to achieve success.
"Ideally we need three or four such experienced players and then
among our youths there should be guys who are not only good at playing
football but have real character."
Telegraph.co.uk,
24 Mar 2010
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