Wenger’s Wizards: Arsenal’s top five creative players this season

Aaron Ramsey – 26

Without restating the obvious, these last few months have very much represented a breakthrough season for Ramsey, who has suddenly looked a wildly different player to his previous incarnation as a timid, limited, midfielder who passed the buck better than he passed the ball.

The most notable feature of Ramsey’s skyrocketing form this season’s has been his goalscoring – he already has 10 goals at the season’s midway mark – but his inventiveness has similarly improved, or at least his willingness to back himself to execute the difficult, defence-splitting passes of the sort that Ozil converted when Hull came to the Emirates in December.