Behind the cloud of dust stirred up by the imminent exit of Alexis Sanchez there is a team drifting aimlessly.
Arsenal are five games without victory in all competitions and enduring their worst start to a new year under Arsene Wenger.
More troubling however are the signs which lurk behind the statistics because they are once again frail at the back, leaking goals too easily to any team prepared to attack them.
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