⚽️ Worn during the season 2011-2012
👨🦳 Celebrated the 125th anniversary of the club
🥉 Finished third in the Premier League and witnessed how Agüero made City champions from a 19-point distance; but nevertheless secured a Champions League spot one point ahead North London rivals Spurs
🤯 RVP!! The Dutchman managed to score 37 of the 94 goals scored by the team in his last season before a very controversial move to Manchester United
😭 This jersey witnessed one of the biggest away losses for Arsenal in the Premier League, 8-2 against Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United
🔙 Arsenal legend Thierry Henry came back as a loanee from NYRB in his winter off-season; to cover for Gervinho and Chamakh who were at the Africa Cup of Nations
🏆 Finishing first in the Champions League group stage ahead of Marseille, Olympiakos and Dortmund, fell one goal short at a 3-0 victory in Emirates after losing 4-nil at San Siro in the Round of 16
Cesc Fàbregas did not wear this jersey as he made a long-awaited return back to his youth team Barcelona 🔴🔵
2011 was the start of a change in Arsenal’s transfer strategy, from investing in young talents and molding them to future stars to bringing in experienced players like Mikel Arteta from Everton, or Per Mertesacker from Werder Bremen while still investing in a very young Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton; but in the following years players like Giroud, Özil, Alexis Sanchez, Lacazette and Aubameyang would make the transfer spend rise to make Arsenal a big player in transfer windows 🤑
