The Europa League should be Arsenal’s wake-up call. A kick in the knackers to get their sh*t together so they can get back to playing with the big boys.

It should be the call to arms that the club have needed for the longest time yet was silenced because we were still outperforming the likes of Liverpool, Tottenham, and even United since Ferguson left. Good enough, but not quite good enough.

Well, much like Dennis Bergkamp, that won’t fly next season.

The Europa League will chew us up if we get it wrong. We already know that Arsenal have no stomach for a real fight. If it’s bad losing to Bayern or Barca, how hard will their confidence be hit losing to some Eastern European randomer?

Change is needed throughout Arsenal. From the owner to the board, to the manager, coaching staff and playing personnel. But the biggest thing that needs to change is Arsenal’s mentality.

Good enough is no longer good enough.

They must strive to be markedly better, accepting their shortcomings and working to address them,

Talking about mental strength doesn’t mean you have it any more that Theresa May going on about ‘strong and stable’ like a parrot with OCd means that’s why the Tories offer.

Football games are rarely won with words off the pitch rather, with the ones that roll between your ears. If Arsenal players believe they are ‘good enough’ what incentive is there for them to get better?

This season showed that no matter what they believe or what Arsene Wenger is telling them, they have very clearly not been good enough.

You don’t end up in the Europa League by accident. It is the canary in Arsenal’s coalmine.

You just have to wonder if anyone at the club has heard the silence of the dead bird…