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Mikel Arteta would make a good assassin. Reserved and meticulous, bellicose and monomaniacal, his remorseless relentlessness is exactly what you’d not want on your case if someone put out a contract on your life.

Yet, paradoxically, Arteta’s Arsenal lack killer instinct, unable to find in themselves the unbridled cruelty that wins league titles. Where champions find a way, so far they have faltered.

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