Manuel Pellegrini doesn’t believe three former Gunners will make a difference on their own when we hit the Emirates at the weekend.
Much is always made of players returning wanting to provide payback when they step back into their former ‘homes’and on Saturday Jack Wilshere, Lukasz Fabianski and Lucas Perez will do just that.
But Pellegrini doesn’t take that argument on board saying: “For me, the difference we have to make, we make as a team and not because we have three players who were with Arsenal.
In the next home game, we play against Wolverhampton and we don’t have any players who played for them, but that doesn’t mean we are going to lose the game!
We need to improve as a team in defending, in attacking, in mentality, in a lot of things because against a big and good team like Arsenal, this is the only way to improve.
People asked me why I thought Arsenal let Jack leave. I managed here in England for three years against Arsenal and before that twice with Villarreal in the Champions League quarter-finals, and Jack Wilshere was always a very good player.
I don’t know the reason why he finished his contract with Arsenal or why Arsenal allowed him to come here, so it’s very difficult for me to give an opinion about that.
I am just happy he is now a West Ham player.”