Arsene Wenger is seen by many as one of football's managerial greats. Hugely intelligent, imprinted attacking principles and a strong emphasizes on youth development rather than huge wage bills and over-the-top transfer fees, etc., etc. However, as a huge fan of his, I have finally discovered something that he just simply does not have. Actually, let's be more accurate, it is something that he did have, but somehow lost in the past few season—luck.

Luck plays a huge part in football, there is no doubt about that. Champions League final 2008, John Terry slips, and misses a penalty as the ball strikes the post. Now for those who want to argue that it was a matter of ability that made Terry miss the penalty, please think again. The toughest of mentality is installed in Terry's mind yet the pure matter of luck derived him from picking up Club football's most prestigious trophy.

"What has happened to Arsenal?" "Sack Wenger?" "Time to spend Wenger!" These have been the title in most of the recent articles about Arsenal football club. Yet, I think most do not quite understand what really happened and what problems Wenger is truly facing.

Let's rewind the clock to the beginning of last season, 2007 to 2008. Wenger decides to let Thierry Henry leave the club, despite the fact that the squad had no proven 20-plus goal striker to replace him.

Now I am sure that Wenger didn't want Henry to leave, but the fact is Henry wanted to go and it is simply wrong (at least in Wenger's case) to hold him back after Thierry had given so much to the club. Thankfully, the young team took full responsibility and started the season by storm, scoring freely and was playing, as Robin V. Persie put it, "football from another planet."

Just as the team was in full flow, one of the star performers during this amazing start of the season, V. Persie (who had just scored a brace to secure three points against Sunderland at the Emirates) had gotten injured during an international match. Now all of us know what happened after that, he came back, and got injured again.

He then came back again, but got hurt again. His guaranteed 10-plus goals would've gotten us across the line for the first trophy since 2005. But bad luck restricted his availability, when we most needed it.

When RvP was injured, the Gunners were blessed with another outstanding finisher flourishing, Eduardo Da Silva, the proposed replacement for Henry. The man was scoring from all angles and knocking in crucial goals. However, again we all know what happened here, the classy Croatian went to St. Andrews and had to end his brilliant debut season there. A clumsy challenge unfortunately led to a double fracture on his leg and ankle. His absence meant another 10 less goals to be scored for the Gunners.

Rosicky has been injured since January 2008 until now. No one can deny how important he is to this Arsenal side as he is the player with the most experience in Arsenal's far too inexperienced midfield. The title was lost in April and the Champions League exit followed.

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