Not sure he would have made it tbh. A lot of his minutes during 07-09 also came because we had nobody and were injury riddled. If Wenger just fucking acted and got some midfielders after Vieira, Hleb and Flamini left him, Song and Denilson maybe never got the minutes they had gotten.
Losing Diarra in January before then Flamini and Gilberto in the summer has still to be one of the biggest wtf when it comes to transfers in that period, we were in serious trouble of dropping out of Top 4 then to Aston Villa, then Arshavin happened.
Song turned out okay (relatively), but Denilsonā¦damn we wasted so much minutes on players that was never going to amount to much.
07-08 Squad, how we failed to build upon that is mystifying.
Iām glad heās finally called time really. While itās admireable he tried to prolong his career, the poor guy has been so crocked over the past decade, his body never looked likely to recover to something decent. What is sad and something I didnāt realise is, heās just 32 I couldāve sworn he was mid 30s. Really does feels like a waste of a career.
I do recall his assist for Rosickyās winning goal against Liverpool, and of course who can forget completely mullering John Terry in the face
Kinda makes me wonder about the likes of Jack Wilshere. Could see him as someone in the future who may fall into the category of retiring young through injuries and body breaking down constantly.