Speaking to Off the Ball, Ray Parlour has given a frighteningly honest view on Arsenal’s relegation chances this season after their awful start to the campaign.
Remarkably, the Gunners legend refused to write off the possibility of Arsenal being relegated, pointing at Leicester City’s remarkable 5,000/1 title win back in 2016 when saying that anything can happen in football.
“Someone asked me the question the other day, can they get relegated? I said, well probably not, but then you look at Leicester winning the league 5,000/1 and they won it, so they can get relegated,” Parlour said.
“If they don’t start picking up points and turning it around then there’s a real problem there.”
We’re only 12 games into the season, so it’s a little early to be tipping any team for relegation, but the reality is that Arsenal could end up in this dog-fight.
The Gunners have been showing relegation form in recent weeks, and the underlying stats show that things don’t look like turning around anytime soon, with the London club taking the fifth-fewest shots of any Premier League team this season.
So, can Arsenal get relegated? If we’re being honest, it’s incredibly unlikely, they’ve not played second-division football in over 100 years, but as Parlour says, stranger things have happened.
If Leicester City can win the Premier League, why can’t Arsenal get relegated? It’s a very simplistic view of a complex situation, but the point still stands.
The fact that we’re even having this conversation in mid-December is indicative of how poor the Gunners have been this season, and something really needs to change in the coming weeks.
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