"You cant win anything with kids!" this season at least.

I have partially arrived at a solution to the question that was nagging my mind since the beginning of this summer.It is the Arsenal question. Can the current team of young gunners make a mark in the EPL? Will they be competent without Henry?,How far will they go ? and many questions on a very similar line and on the very same topic.But the answers for these questions,when posed to football pundits, coincide on the well-known soccer cliche "You cant win anything with kids!".

It was the 1995-96 season, a Man Utd team, which disposed Paul Ince, Andrei Kanchelskis, Mark Hughes the seniors,who formed the backbone of the team off .It was a team which was very less experienced when compared to its peers in the league,a team which had lost its most influential player Eric Cantona for around the first half of the season. You could hear the words "You cant win anything with kids!", whenever there was a mention of the words Manchester united. The enraged supporters of the club had to settle with names like Gary Neville,Phil Neville,David Beckham, Paul Scholes,Nicky Butt on the team -sheet.What ensued was there for everyone to see.The so-called kids were able to win a double and proved Alan Hansen's quote completely wrong.

So will the current squad of Gunners be able to repeat Man U's feat?.Let us just analyse what was the case then and come to what it is now.Although the then Man Utd squad were called kids.It wasn't essentially a squad that contained only kids.Experience in the form of Steve Bruce,Peter Schmeichel, Gary Pallister, Lee Sharpe and McLair and of course Eric Cantona was present in the squad. That definitely had something to do with their winning the double. Let us see what do the Gunners have for filling the experience clause.Gilberto silva, Jens Lehmann, William Gallas,Kolo Toure. The three of them are experienced, no doubt, but in all probability they wont be able to inspire like wat the experienced lot in 95-96 Utds team did.When you compare the youngsters Arsenal with the young bunch of 95-96, there is not much you can say about it.You have fabregas,Utd had scholes.U have a denilson,Utd had a Butt.Utd had a Beckham,who do u have?..Hleb??,van Persie??.The had a decent finisher in Andy Cole.who do you have? an Eduardo??,a Bendtner??.

Everything done and dusted.As we await the new season to start,i conclude that Arsenal wont win any noteworthy trophy this tym around.I think a fourth place finish in the premier league would be the thing for Arsenal to fight for.And if Wenger wishes to do a Fergie in his own way, maybe he is forgettin something,there is only one way to go about and it is
the FERGIE way.