Arsenal's Weakest Team Yet?

Since Arsene Wenger moved to Arsenal in 1996, Arsenal have had a dominant and reliable team but up until now it seems that Arsenal are carrying their weakest team yet.

Their recent Champion's League win against Dynamo Kiev was proof that the Arsenal team is at a weak point with many injuries and poor transfer decisions.

The line up against Dynamo Kiev was youthful but lacked the much needed experience especially in the midfield, I accept that there is a huge injury crisis at Arsenal but the likes of Denilson, Alexandre Song, and Abou Diaby have not stepped up and taken the second leader role in the midfield.

Manuel Almunia

It is the bench that especially lacks depth and experience with half of the players yet to make their Champion's League debut, the youngsters do have immense talent but do not have the experience.

The team is no doubt talented and capable of beating most teams but the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool all have stronger and more experienced squads.

A fully fit team does boast some formidable talent and depth all around the park, it also contains sufficient leadership and experience.

• Manuel Almunia
• Bacary Sagna
• Kolo Toure
• William Gallas
• Gael Clichy
• Samir Nasri
• Abou Diaby
• Cesc Fabregas (c)
• Tomas Rosicky
• Robin Van Persie
• Emmanuel Adebayor

Substitues:

Lukas Fabianski, Johan Djourou, Theo Walcott, Denilson, Emmaneul Eboue, Carlos Vela, Eduardo

As you can see it's an exceptionally talented squad when fit but the likes of Eduardo, Eboue, Toure, Rosicky, Adebayor, and Sagna are all out injured which leaves some gaping holes in the line up.

The poor efforts in the transfer window also contributed with the likes of Alexander Helb, Gilberto Silva, and Mathieu Flamini, who were all huge parts in the midfield being sold and Wenger failed to buy a central midfielder who boasted skill and experience.

I feel it is the weakest team Wenger has had yet, compared to the 2003/2004 starting side (Lehman, Lauren, Campbell, Toure, Cole, Ljungberg, Vieira, Gilberto, Pires, Henry, Bergkamp) the current side is very weak.