Arsenal’s top 10 best players of 2013/14 including club record signing Mesut Ozil and the brilliant Aaron Ramsey

3. Per Mertesacker

When Mertesacker first arrived at the club from Werder Bremen back in 2011 there was criticism that the German was too slow and cumbersome.

Yet since then the 29-year-old has developed to play to his strengths and has added a physicality to the side that so often lacks from Wenger’s teams.