Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has urged Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri to stay and drive them to title success.
Wenger remains as defiant as ever his young squad can finally deliver in 2011/2012, having collapsed so spectacularly over the closing weeks of last season.
"The players have worked very hard, are determined and the competition is a high level," said Wenger in last night's news conference at Emirates Stadium.
"We analysed it all again and you look at all the performance indexes from last season you will see we were very close. That is why my desire is so big to keep the whole squad together.
"I talked about Fabregas and Nasri because I feel a good response would be to say 'okay, we missed it last year. Let's show that we can do it together, with maybe one or two more players'.
"That is what we come to expect from champions."
