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"It's probably a typical week for Arsenal, really," he added. "They capitulated at Chelsea and it seems to be a similar theme when they play the top teams. At Liverpool, against City, for one reason or another the players just seem to go missing.

"The [Mikel] Artetas, the [Santi] Cazorlas, the [Tomas] Rosickys and the [Mesut] Ozils if you like – I know he's not played for a bit – but it seems like they go on the pitch with no discipline, it's almost as if they’re saying: 'You four or five midfielders, you go out there, do what you want, try to score us a goal, do a few nice little one-twos, a bit of tippy-tappy football ... don't bother running back'.

"That's just my thoughts on it, I don't know what the manager does, it just seems that way to me. It just seems the midfield players have no discipline, there's no leader there, no Patrick Vieira, no [Tony] Adams, no Martin Keown.

"Sometimes, as midfield players, when you're against it you just have to say: 'Look, get in here beside me for five or 10 minutes' to try to stop the flow of attacks and, these, they go 2-0 down and they just carry on what they're doing. 'Ah, we'll just have a walk up front, we'll lose the ball, play a nice little one-two and not even both sprinting back' ... and you wonder why they’re in the position that they're in!

"It's Arsenal fans you feel sorry for, they seem to get the same thing every year. Maybe a little hint of the title for a few weeks and then they go to Chelsea, they go to City, they go to Liverpool and they just do nothing."

Paul Scholes pretty much saying how it is...