Patrick Vieira believes Arsenal needs to reinforce their roster to address longstanding issues they've faced.

"We had [Dennis] Bergkamp, who had the flair; Thierry Henry who could finish and had so much power; athletic players with the physical aspect like Sol Campbell; and some really strong personalities with [Jens] Lehmann or the back four.

"This Arsenal Invincibles was quite like the French national team when we won the World Cup in '98, when we had physical players, players with flair, players with pace.

"I enjoy watching Arsenal play now. They play some of the best football in the league. But they're missing the physical presence, the personality. In our generation we had some fantastic players with the ball but the majority of the players were quite physically strong.

"This last five or six years, Arsenal went more with this type of mobile, technical players who are completely different."