As the cycle of football goes, the past few years have seen many of our best players leave for pastures new, whether they are legends like like Freddie Ljungberg and Robert Pires coming to the end of their careers or players like Philippe Senderos and Johann Djourou who just weren’t good enough for us and shipped out.
There are some players though who have been sold at their peak for a variety of different reasons from bids to high to turn down from rivals, player tantrums or out of respect to players who want a new challenge.
Looking back, it’s fair to say that the right decision wasn’t always made and Jonathan Kaney has identified this group in particular as players Arsenal should never have let go. If we kept this lot, our recent history may have been far more successful!
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