http://tinyurl.com/5ld36a arsenal truth For the last 5 years or so it has increasingly been assumed that leaving Arsenal Football Club pretty much spells the end of a player's career - or at least the end of having a successful career at another club. But what's the truth behind the fiction? Considering Arsenal have won nothing other than a dodgy FA Cup final in the last four years, one might begin to assume that staying at Arsenal is hardly indicative of success leading to failure. In the past 6 years, around 30 players have left Arsenal, but how many of those can really consider to be failures? Well first you have to quantify what success and failure is. If success is based on trophies won alone, then Arsenal currently only have two successful players in their entire squad - Toure and Gallas, so it would be a bit rich to get all high and mighty about the success rates of players let go by Arsene Wenger. If, however, success constitutes playing for a top European club side, week-in week-out, challenging for major trophies and perhaps winning the odd one, then Arsenal currently have numerous successful players, and perhaps that would be a fairer equation for deciding the true level of a player's success. So, looking at the players who have left Arsenal over the last 5-6 seasons, what exactly have they achieved at their subsequent clubs? Successful: Lassana Diarra - departed Arsenal in January and won the FA cup with 8th placed Portsmouth Jose Reyes - won the Primera League with Real Madrid, now playing for Atletico Madrid, finished 4th last season Robert Pires - struggled with injury in his first season but made 35 appearances last and finished 2nd with Spanish side Villarreal Pascal Cygan - along with Pires, pretty much a regular at high-flying Villarreal Ashley Cole - yet to win the Premiership since leaving Arsenal, but won the FA Cup and made a Champions League final Sol Campbell - won the FA cup with 8th placed Portsmouth Jermaine Pennant - named man of the match after Liverpool's Champions League final defeat of AC Milan in 2007 Sylvain Wiltord - won three French titles with Lyon and made a Champions League quarter final Kanu - scored the winning goals for Portsmouth in both the FA cup Semi-Final and Final 2008 Patrick Vieira - moved from Juve to Inter last season and promptly won Serie A Giovanni Van Bronckorst - has won the Champions League with Barcelona and two titles Moderately successful but not outright failures: Freddie Ljungberg - left Arsenal aged 30, moved to West Ham but still massively injury-prone, unfair to call him a failure Thierry Henry - moved to Barcelona and scored 19 goals - decent total - throughout an injury-ravaged season, played in the Champions League semi-final Fabrice Muamba - the boy is only 20, but has already clocked up 71 games for Birmingham City, has a bright future Sebstian Larsen - scored 9 goals in 51 appearances for Birmingham, impressive for a 23-year-old midfielder Lauren - made 25 appearances for 8th placed Portsmouth, was injured and therefore didn't feature in their 2008 FA Cup final success David Bentley - played regularly for Blackburn - and received the plaudits, broke into the England squad last season and has now moved to Spurs for 17 million. Hardly a failure, however much you may pour scorn on him. Failures: Arturo Lupoli - Left for Fiorentina after a loan spell at Derby, has subsequently been loaned to Treviso and now Norwich Jeremie Aliadiere - played 29 games for Middlesbrough last season, scoring a paltry 5 goals Anthony Stokes - now playing regularly for Sunderland, but only scored 3 in 34 appearances last season Igor Stepanovs - a Wenger abhoration, has played for 5 sub-standard clubs since leaving Arsenal, now plying his trade at Russian side FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Quincy Awusu-Abeyie - plays for Spartak Moscow but has been considered for a loan to Championship side Birmingham this season Edu - broke his leg pre-season upon joining Valencia, then in his first full season at the club (last season) they finished 10th Francis Jeffers - complete disaster since leaving Arsenal, played for 6 different clubs scoring 9 goals in 5 years. Moritz Volz - 25 now, and played over 100 games for Fulham since leaving Arsenal; gets regular playing time but not much else. Matthew Upson - much like Volz, plays regularly at Premiership level but nothing much to show for his 29 years age. So there you have it - although this exercise should not be taken too seriously , one can certainly assume that leaving Arsenal does not mean your career will end in tatters. However much we'd like to think as supporters that Arsenal is the only place to be and it would be a mistake to leave, it's largely a myth. -- 资料更正: Reyes已经被马竞弃用积极求售, 目前无药可救. Stokes当初卖了2M, Arsene Knows. -- Cesc"He's only 17, he's better than Roy Keane" Fabregas. --

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