Top 5 players Arsenal have let go of

#5 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

The midfielder has grown in form after a shaky start at Anfield

Not as integral as Sanchez was, Oxlade-Chamberlain nevertheless possessed assets that Arsenal could have utilised. He's recently found a new lease of life in the central midfield for his new club Liverpool, the position the player has always said he'd prefer to play.

It is, intriguingly, a position that Arsenal have struggled to fill in the past season or 2: Aaron Ramsey appears jaded, Francis Coquelin has just left to join Valencia, and Granit Xhaka promises much but delivers comparatively little. Oxlade-Chamberlain was too often used further up the pitch, but his power and dribbling mean he functions better centrally.

At the age of 24, Jurgen Klopp has Oxlade-Chamberlain's best years ahead of him to mould further into an effective and elite player; that Wenger couldn't recognise the potential of the Englishman is another indictment of his decline as a manager.