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Hull KR are in search of their first win in this season's Betfred Super League campaign when they take on Catalans at home on Thursday night.

It will go down as Wenger's worst ever league campaign when looked at in context (yes, even worse than last season), and it was the ultimate piece of evidence for exposing Le Fraud for the failure he has become.

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So there is still real hope that the fantastic forward will be running out onto the Emirates pitch when Liverpool come to north London to get our Premier League campaign underway in a little over two weeks.

Wenger has a decision to make next Sunday, when Arsenal kick off their Premier League campaign against Liverpool at the Emirates, because Le Prof will have to decide whether to go with Walcott or Alexis up front, in Olivier Giroud's absence.

My dear get your facts right Giroud was top scorer in the French league when he was signed, gervinho was the second highest goal scorer for Lille in the title winning campaign, moussa sow was the highest and hazard was no where near the two on goals, hazard however was signed by Chelsea the next season after he scored 20 goals and was put on wages even «crazy» man city at the time thought was crazy.pls zlatan was not in France when Montpellier won the league, hazard to Chelsea was 2012, gervinho to arsenal was 2011.

We are also preparing to start the season without Koscielny and Giroud due to their international campaign with France, and should we fail to pick up some crucial early points, we could struggle to get back on terms with the big teams this year, especially when we have to start juggling Champions League football also, where the likes of United, Chelsea and Liverpool do not.

Three of those trophies came all at once in the 2000 - 01 campaign when the Merseyside outfit clinched a unique treble consisting of a domestic League and FA Cup double, while they triumphed over Spanish side Alaves in a dramatic UEFA Cup final.

If Arsenal Football Club are going to finally put a new manager in charge of the team when the current season ends, something that some people think will hinge on our Europa League campaign, then the current boss of the Serie A champions Juventus is not the only option.

In 2015 Arsenal only just pinched second place in the League by the skin of their teeth when Tottenham collapsed in the final games of the campaign, but Spurs got their revenge in style last season when they made sure of their second - place finish and ended 11 points ahead of a very disappointing Gunners side, that failed to even make the Champions League.

Though Mata finished the last two campaigns as Chelsea's Player of the Year Mourinho initially preferred to use Eden Hazard and Oscar as his creative midfield talents and when the former Valencia man has been used he has failed to hit the heights that saw him play a pivotal role in the West London club's Champions League and Europa League successes.

My team were never challenging for the Premier League title when I began to follow them, and the joy I would experience when they would reach an unlikely cup final was immense, so I'm sorry if I don't feel any remorse for a fan who only followed a team when they were one of only two top sides challenging year on year, before enjoying an unbeatable Invincibles campaign in only his third term of supporting the side.

The question of who should start alongside Francis Coquelin in the Arsenal central midfield when our Premier League campaign kicks off again with the visit of Watford on Saturday will be a very easy one to answer if the rumours about Aaron Ramsey having suffered a setback to his return from injury are correct.

When Sanchez starts, he brings back the Arsenal we had for the second part of last seasons Premier League campaign.

Kante has been one of the best players in the Premier League in his short time in England, winning the title in each of his first two seasons on these shores, first with Leicester City and then last season with Chelsea, when his all - action displays also earned him the PFA Player of the Year award at the end of the campaign.

But as they graduate to Super AMOLED level during the winter campaign when Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck would have been back and 1 or 2 top quality additions are added to the team by the Boss, the Gunners will totally become unstoppable by any of their title rivals as they cruise home with the Premier League title in May next year.

Athough Chelsea had the strongest defence in the Premier League last season, it may be that the club are targeting the impressive Stones as a long - term replacement for club captain John Terry, who will turn 35 next season and is surely no longer able to play as often as he did last term, when he surpassed expectations by featuring in every single minute of the team's Premier League title - winning campaign.

Cisse has impressed in fits and starts at Newcastle, notably during his maiden campaign in England when he bagged 13 goals in 14 league games.

Okay he has not managed more than 16 League goals in one campaign, but for a workhorse that only cost us 10m GBP when Wenger brought him over from France he has at least earned his wages (unlike Walcott and a few others I could name).

After last season when Arsenal spent much longer at the top of the Premier League table than any of our big rivals, only faltering in the second half of the season as the injury list ground us down, expectations were naturally high going into this campaign.

When a rested Chicago team defeated the exhausted All - Americans, Halas campaigned to have his team declared league champion.

With the a draining Europa League campaign coming up for the Gunners next season they are going to need more depth to their squad as when you consider there are 38 league games, up to 15 games in the Europa League (should they reach the final) up to 6 games in the FA Cup and the same in the League Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the sLeague campaign coming up for the Gunners next season they are going to need more depth to their squad as when you consider there are 38 league games, up to 15 games in the Europa League (should they reach the final) up to 6 games in the FA Cup and the same in the League Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the sleague games, up to 15 games in the Europa League (should they reach the final) up to 6 games in the FA Cup and the same in the League Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the sLeague (should they reach the final) up to 6 games in the FA Cup and the same in the League Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the sLeague Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the season.

He'll be hoping to add to that trophy haul when he makes his comeback, with Atleti chasing down Barcelona in the La Liga title race while they'll hope to still be involved in the Champions League in the second half of the campaign as they face a crucial week with a win over Chelsea perhaps not even enough depending on Roma's result.

One poor campaign and their absence from the Champions League will not prevent Stamford Bridge from being an attractive destination when Europe's top players are on the move come the summer.

Remarkably for a striker, Welbeck has never hit double figures in a league campaign, with his highest over the course of a season in all competitions just 12 all the way back in 2011/12 when he was at United.

A positive and optimistic view of Arsenal, the current campaign and the chances of Arsenal winning the Premier League title in next season might not carry as much weight when it comes from one of players in the Arsenal squad, but the reason suggested by Per Mertesacker for the struggles of the Gunners this season is the same one suggested earlier this week by the West Brom boss Tony Pulis, our awful injury record.

Arsenal may have «shot themselves in the foot» (as Wenger said) by not being ready for our first two League games but with the campaign restarting in earnest next week, we should have a fully fit squad firing on all cylinders when we play Southampton next weekend.

Sean Dyche has made Turf Moor a fortress for the Clarets for some time now and despite the fact that their home record so far this season has not been quite as impressive as last time, when they only lost six Premier League games through the whole campaign, they are still very hard to beat there and have also started to do the business on the road as well.

Arsenal fans have seen our own team at the top of the Premier League table plenty of times in recent years, although never when it really matters at the end of the long campaign.

Meanwhile, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo enters his 11th season in the league following back surgery and as a result, owner Jerry Jones didn't sound too enthused earlier this week when discussing his team's chances this coming campaign.

When Arsenal fans were forced to accept after last season's disappointing Premier League campaign, which saw us miss out on the Champions League for the first time in many years, that the long serving manager Arsene Wenger would not be replaced as many of us hoped, it was with the proviso that things would change.

That will certainly not be the case tomorrow, when a probably much changed Arsenal side run out at the Parc Des Princes in Paris to open our Champions League campaign with what is likely to be the hardest game of all, away to the French Ligue 1 champions PSG.

Gustavo left Bayern Munich for the Volkswagen Arena in the summer of 2013 and enjoyed an excellent debut campaign, with his side narrowly missing out on securing a Champions League berth, and van Gaal hopes he can persuade the box to box performer to move to Man United when the transfer window re-opens.

Marc Stein of ESPN reported earlier this season that the last campaign without an in - season coach replacement was 1970 - 71, when the league was 17 teams deep, Nixon was President and the ABA existed.

If you ignore Walcott's first breakthrough season when he started just 5 games, Theo has averaged only 15 League starts a year for the last 8 campaigns and this report shows that Walcott has had 14 separate injuries in the last five years

That feels paradoxical; when everybody else is being judged on European form, it seems Madrid's disappointing league campaign could count against him.

His last season at Real was ineffective, as was his last season at Chelsea when he completely lost his squad, as was his first season with Man U., Yes, he won the Europe League but to me, that is not a major trophy and his PL campaign was meek.

When the Gunners return, they face Stoke City before tough fixtures against Chelsea and Tottenham as well as the beginning of their Champions League campaign.

The season before last, when Arsenal spent most of the campaign at the top of the League, but everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY, from pundits down to Arsenal fans themselves) were predicting that the Gunners would fall by the wayside and end up fighting for fourth place.

In November, his agent, Jacques Lichtenstei, tried to push Praet towards Arsenal when he said: «What could he learn from another season in Belgium after several campaigns at European level and having contributed to three consecutive league titles?

So we are all hoping that the attacking midfielder can pick up where he left off when our Premier League campaign gets back under way with the trip to West Brom next weekend and the fact that Ozil is in sublime form and is breaking EPL records, with 10 assists so far and at least one in the last six games in a row has got the pundits purring and a lot of people suggesting that Ozil can win the title for Arsenal this season.

Chelsea enquired about Drinkwater last summer when they struck a deal for Kante following Leicester's historic 2015/16 Premier League winning campaign.

They have only dropped 2 points out of 10 League games in this campaign when they drew at home to Everton back in August.

The interim boss has a contract that runs until the end of the current campaign after replacing Jose Mourinho in December, as the Portuguese tactician failed to replicate the success that the club enjoyed last year when winning the Premier League.

He was a key figure for Spartak Moscow in their 1995 Champions League campaign, when they won all six group - stage games, and later won three league titles in Austria with Tirol Innsbruck before ending his playing career back at SpLeague campaign, when they won all six group - stage games, and later won three league titles in Austria with Tirol Innsbruck before ending his playing career back at Spleague titles in Austria with Tirol Innsbruck before ending his playing career back at Spartak.

Wenger has come under increasing pressure in recent seasons, and for the second successive season they have failed to finish in the top - four and they have not won the Premier League since 2004 — when they went the whole league campaign unbLeague since 2004 — when they went the whole league campaign unbleague campaign unbeaten.

Added to that, Wenger has inspired perhaps the greatest ever campaign in English football history in 2003 - 04, when Arsenal went 38 games unbeaten en route to the Premier League title.

Swansea now find themselves in a bit of a slump in comparison to the loftily high standards they set for themselves earlier in the campaign, having won just two of their last five league matches, this degree of inconsistency within their league form has however come at the time when the added pressure of fixture congestion that comes with a long cup run can really effect a squads fitness and consequently their performances.

We've been trekking through this Champions League campaign for so long that I nearly forgot where this road started, and how we reacted when the path was revealed:

Fellow Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo backed Mourinho until towards the end of the 2012 - 13 campaign when the now Chelsea manager claimed that Madrid started the 2012 - 13 league season «in a sad state», alluding to the 29 - year - old's revelation of being sad at the club back in September 2012.