Originally Posted by
Syn
I believe a lot of our youngsters have a real connection to Arsenal. I believe they will want to stay at the club for a long time. Maybe it's unrealistic to expect them to stay if we keep slipping down the table, but I think there is something unique about this current crop over the previous years. We have the quality as well as the right mentality. If you think about Oxlade's performance tonight or Wilshere's performance against Barcelona last year - they were the stand out performers in those key games. We haven't seen that from the likes of Vela. Smashing carling cup pub teams is all well and good. I think having an English core helps to buy us a couple of extra years over the Fabregas/Nasri's. I'm not worried about them leaving because I think we'll be hitting some success and they'll be encouraged by that.