Former Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew feels Arsenal are woefully short of leaders.
Pardew wrote for the Daily Mail: "Arsenal are seriously lacking leadership on the pitch.
"They have no driving force. The vultures are circling round Arsene Wenger but it doesn't matter how good you are as a manager, if you're missing that driving presence in your team, you're going to struggle.
"I watched the match at Watford with a former Arsenal midfielder who had that drive — Emmanuel Petit. Petit had that presence, the way N'Golo Kante has it at Chelsea and Kevin De Bruyne at Manchester City.
"A driving force can evolve at a football club, like Patrick Vieira at Arsenal. You can also buy leadership and when Wenger signed Mesut Ozil, he would have hoped he'd got a true leader."