Arsenal’s lack of leaders is staggering
ARSENAL are seriously lacking leadership on the pitch. They have no driving force. The vultures are circling round Arsene Wenger but it doesn’t matter how good you are as a manager, if you’re missing that driving presence in your team, you’re going to struggle. I watched the match at Watford with a former Arsenal midfielder who had that drive — Emmanuel Petit. Petit had that presence, the way N’Golo Kante has it at Chelsea and Kevin De Bruyne at Manchester City. De Bruyne isn’t a destroyer like Roy Keane, but he can rip teams apart with his incisive passing. A driving force can evolve at a football club, like Patrick Vieira at Arsenal. You can also buy leadership and when Wenger signed Mesut Ozil (right), he would have hoped he’d got a true leader. But Ozil’s display at Watford — a sloppy miss and then not busting a gut to get back for Watford’s winner — highlighted his