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Arsenal news: Sky Sports pundit slates Gunners… and makes Tottenham claim too
PAUL MERSON has aimed a barb at Arsenal, claiming they haven’t got many players that would persuade the top four clubs to part with their cash.
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Although Arsenal beat Ostersunds 3-0 in the first leg of their last-32 Europa League tie last night, their domestic problems have been all too familiar.
Currently sitting five points off the top four in sixth position in the Premier League, their best chance of qualifying for the Champions League next season lie with the Europa League.
Arsene Wenger has come under fire for not bringing through top talent in recent years.
Across the other side of north London, Mauricio Pochettino’s men are chasing a top-four spot and have a good chance of qualifying for the last eight of Europe’s elite competition.
Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen have been instrumental again this term, and Merson thinks Tottenham wouldn’t struggle to find suitors if Pochettino put his players up for sale.
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They wouldn’t get in anyone else’s team in the top five. Nobody would take any of them
“The thing that surprises me with Arsenal is that you look at their team and there aren’t many that would get in all the other teams,” Merson told Sky Sports’ The Debate.
“The goalie, the whole of the back four, Xhaka and Elneny wouldn’t get in.
“They wouldn’t get in anyone else’s team in the top five. Nobody would take any of them.
Paul Merson thinks there are very few Arsenal players that would be snapped up by a top four club
“That is the worry. With Tottenham, you could reel off a lot of players who, if they all went up for sale tomorrow, the big boys would snap them up.
“Arsenal have got lost a bit.
“We point the finger at Arsene [Wenger] but players aren’t good enough.”
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