Daily Mirror

ARSENAL

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have some new faces, but still have the same old problems. They will continue to win well, but also to lose to teams they are not expected to.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the real deal and will score a goal every other game.

But so have many players such as Alexis Sanchez and Robin van Persie.

Nobody ever said Arsenal don’t have talent. Just that they don’t have bottle.

Aubameyang will not give them that. They need a return to when their team was a combinatio­n of luxury players, old pros and youngsters.

But Arsene Wenger (below, with Auba) believes in lovely young boys who play fancy fivea-side on an 11-a-side pitch.

And that will continue as long as he is in charge.

He won’t mix talent with the graft, bottle and dirty work that the Premier League demands.

That is bizarre as his most famous team – The Invincible­s –

had that in abundance.

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