Alex Song: Where did it all go wrong?

Swiss side Sion discharged the previous Arsenal star a week ago, however how precisely did the Cameroonian's vocation go bad

After news spread a week ago about Alex Song's sacking by Sion for apparently declining to take a paycut in the midst of the coronavirus emergency, it summarized how far the 32-year-old has tumbled from the halcyon days of his initial vocation.

Never the flashiest on the pitch, his unpredictable tinted haircuts aside, Song apparently making the most of his best battle in the 2011-12 season, when it seemed like he had the world at his feet, and was prepared to turn out to be, possibly, the best African focal midfielder of his age.

After the flight of Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona in 2011, Arsene Wenger required another inventive lynchpin to supplant the world class Spaniard, and, as opposed to reinvest the assets into a major cash midfield purchase, the Frenchman put his confidence in and raised the Cameroon midfielder.

The consequence of that was a remarkable individual crusade for Song, who gave 11 Premier League helps (14 in all rivalries), which was an exponential increment on his count from the past two seasons – four and two of every 2010-11 and 2009-10 separately – as Arsenal completed third in the table.

For a touch of setting, Fabregas set up 16 in his last battle in North London and 19 the prior year, so Song's arrival proposed he could have the quality to step into the Spaniard's point of view.

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