5 questions we want answered if Arsene Wenger wrote his autobiography

5) Why were so many players given chances when they failed to make the grade at Arsenal?

Why has the English core largely failed to fulfil their potential?

Nobody ever knows how a footballer’s career will pan out. But at the same time, there are managers who do something about it rather than allow players to stagnate. They are either coached differently or they are moved on to make way for someone else.

In Wenger’s case, there are a number of players that were given so many chances that looking back you wonder why they were never replaced.

Abou Diaby was one such player. Suffering one injury crisis after another, it was a pity that Wenger gave him so many seasons to recover. It effectively cost them a fit player who could have taken his place in the squad. Wenger saw potential in him but sadly not everyone is destined to be a footballer at a top club and Arsenal paid the price for years.

Another player who has been treated like royalty is Theo Walcott. He held the club to ransom to demand higher wages knowing very well he would get it following the departures of Van Persie, Fabregas and Nasri. But once he did, his decline was shocking.

Walcott has been at the club for 10 years and is yet to really show he deserves a spot in the lineup. Now, at the age of 28, he doesn’t even get into the England squad.

The new English core was a great project with Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Calum Chambers, Carl Jenkinson and Kieran Gibbs supposed to take the next step. Sadly, only Ramsey has fulfilled that potential and only to a certain extent.

Why have so many players failed? Is it because they weren’t coached properly or did their attitude in training let them and the club down?

Sadly, we may never know the answers to most of these questions.