WITHIN hours of the new season, Arsenal were firmly established as a club in crisis. A humiliating defeat to Aston Villa allied to a failure to make any big signings got everyone's blood boiling.
It didn't help that neighbours and bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur had signed a quartet of quality internationals (namely Spain's Soldado, Brazil's Paulinho, France's Capoue and Belgium's Chadli) to improve their squad.
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