The period of 2006-2014 has not been Arsenal's most successful ten era but the manager, Arsene Wenger, believes this has been his most successful years in his reign at the club. In 2005, Wenger won his fourth FA Cup in his career and the club's tenth, with Patrick Viera scoring the winning penalty to make the scores 5-4 to Arsenal over Manchester United after the teams were unable to part during 120 minutes; this was the last trophy the Gunners won until 2014.
The season after winning the FA Cup, the Gunners went on a remarkable run in the Champions League and reached the final while knocking out the likes of Villarreal, Juventus and Real Madrid in the process. The Gunners then went on to face Barcelona in the final which they lost 2-1 after taking the lead from a Sol Campbell header, even though the club had ten men due to Jens Lehmann being sent off early on the first-half. Samuel Eto'o and Belletti scored for Barcelona to make them champions of Europe, to Arsenal fans' despair. The year after the club moved to the Emirates Stadium, costing the North Londoners somewhat in the region of £850m, which would limit the amount of money the club could spend for a significant amount of time.
After one more year without any success in terms of trophies, regarding to Arsenal, the club's all-time top scorer and living legend Thierry Henry said goodbye to the club and joined Barcelona for a fee believed to be in the region of £17m. With the likes of Bergkamp, Vieira and Pires all gone, Thierry was one of the few remaining from the club's all time greatest achievement of going a whole season undefeated and getting nicknamed 'the Invincibles'. Henry leaving was an end of an era for Arsenal, and it was time for new men to step forward and make their mark on London's all-time most successful club.
After not reaching any major finals of any competition or not truly competing for the Premier League for three seasons, the 2010-2011 Capital One Cup final was the moment that all Gunners fans dreamed would end the famous trophy drought that surrounded the club's media watch. However, this was proven to be a wrong assumption to make as the Gunners lost 2-1 after a misfortunate error from Laurent Koscielny and Wojciech Szczesny. This was then targeted by the media as was Arsene Wenger, as Arsenal fans were starting to get fed up of the lack of trophies being bought to the club.
From then on they had a period of time where their star players was being sold to rival clubs. This was not a popular group of decisions with the Emirates faithful and some blamed their anger at Arsene Wenger. After securing Champions League football in the 11/12 and 12/13 seasons, on the last day of each season, Arsenal's owner, Ivan Gazidis, promised the fans that big money would be spent and the current stars would no longer have to be sold to rivals due to the stadium finally being paid off.
Moving forwards
The 13/14 season showed real signs of progress as the North London outfit topped the table come Christmas after signing their record signing, Mesut Ozil, to the club for a fee of £42.4m, which really showed how the club looked to push forwards. However, due to the key players of the season, Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey, getting long term injuries, it was not to be and Arsenal ended up finishing fourth, seven points off first place. This was not to stop the Gunners ending the trophy drought as Arsenal went on to win that season's FA Cup after impressively knocking out the likes of Liverpool and their North London rivals Tottenham. Arsenal won the final 3-2 after going 2-0 down to Hull City with goals from Santi Cazorla, Laurent Koscielny and key man Aaron Ramsey scoring the late winner in extra-time to give Arsenal their first trophy in nine years.
After the first trophy being brought to the club in nine years, Arsene Wenger promised more signings would be made and Arsenal would go on to win more trophies in the coming years. After signing Alexis Sanchez and Danny Welbeck for a combined fee of £51m, Arsenal went on the finish third in the Premiership and retain the FA Cup after winning the cup final 4-0 against Aston Villa. This meant that Arsenal and Arsene himself made history as he became the biggest winning FA Cup manager in modern history and Arsenal became the team to win the trophy the most amount of times, making it 12 triumphs for the Gunners. Many fans believe that this is a platform for Gunners to push on to go to win bigger trophies and compete in every competition they are in. After being in financially very strong position, many believe that Arsenal can go on to be champions of England once again in the upcoming years.
