Per Mertesacker insists the entire Arsenal squad is "certain that the success will return" and that Arsene Wenger's hero status is set in stone.

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Mertesacker was one of several players to move to the Emirates towards the end of the transfer window but, with a number of the club's key players having left or currently unavailable through injury, progress has been slow.

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