Arsenal striker, Andrey Arshavin says it will be difficult for Arsenal to win Premier League this season because of the last summer’s lack of signings and a string of injuries that have hit stars like Robin Van Persie, William Gallas, Aaron Ramsey and Kieran Gibbs.

Arsenal are on second position in Premier League table, two points behind Manchester United who are enjoying on position one and two points a head of Chelsea who are on position three but have a game in hand.

"I am still of the opinion that to win trophies Arsenal needs more players," Arshavin told the Sun.

"There is the simple fact that last summer we sold two players and bought only one. So there is an obvious deficit of at least one. Then we lost Van Persie, Gibbs and Ramsey for a long time. So for me it is natural we need new players.

"Without the variety of players we have less diversity in attack. That allows our opponents to read our combinations more easily. Finally, it results in less ball possession for us and our defence comes under more pressure.

"The Premier League is very interesting, at least as long as we continue fighting to win it. But without new experienced players, real stars, it will be difficult to achieve success.

"Ideally we need three or four such experienced players and then among our youths there should be guys who are not only good at playing football but have real character."

Arsenal sold Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor to Manchester City last summer but only signed, Belgium international defender  Thomas Vermaelen from Bodeaux.

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