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#4 The Arsenal players are not motivated
The squad’s harmony is at an all-time low morale. The fans are angry, the players are revolting and Arsenal’s longest serving manager is a shadow of his former self. The Frenchman is now scrambling around for ideas, trying new formations, trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
Too many players are being played out of position and being left at the mercy of the wolves, they’re not happy. Why else do you think Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would take a £60,000 pay cut to join Liverpool? Why else do you think Alexis Sanchez wants to leave and why Mesut Özil’s contract talks have been on hold since February? The players are not committed to the club.
So, factoring all that in, why on earth do you think these Arsenal players would be motivated to win the Europa League? They’re more accustomed to the finer things in life like the Champions League and away nights in Barcelona and Munich, not Cologne and Belgrade. It’s hard to be motivated when you’re not competing for the title, under a manager who doesn’t seem to care about trophies, in a competition nobody values.
