Clichy: No excuse for not winning title

Arsenal defender Gael Clichy insists the Gunners will have no excuses if they fail to win the Premier League title this season. The French full-back is the only surviving member of the Gunners squad that lifted their last league crown, back in 2004.Manager Arsene Wenger has strengthened his squad with the summer signings of Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh from Bordeaux and French defender Laurent Koscielny from Lorient.Barcelona revealed today that Arsenal have refused to even enter into negotiations over the sale of World Cup-winning midfielder Cesc Fabregas.And Clichy said: "I remember a few years ago saying it was a time for Arsenal to win and still nothing happened."I really hope this year can be a good one and now we cannot hide behind anything - the age or the experience. We have everything to do it - so let's do it."It is always at the end of season that we are not that far (behind) and Arsenal had a good season but we didn't win anything."We have to ask ourselves the right questions, do we want to be a good team or to win trophies? To win trophies we have to be the best and that is what we are trying to do from now on."We want to show the fans that we believe in ourselves."Clichy and his French colleagues Bacary Sagna and Abou Diaby have been relishing life back with Arsenal, on the club's pre-season training camp in Austris following a turbulent summer.France crashed out of the World Cup in the group stages after the players had boycotted training in protest after Nicolas Anelka was sent home.The new France coach Laurent Blanc suspended the whole 23-man squad for the friendly against Norway in Oslo on August 11.Diaby told Arsenal TV: "We really need to get ready for the season and start strongly. At some point we try to forget what happened at the World Cup."People expected more from us. Now they want us to show what we can do so it is a really important season."

Source: Team_Talk