McLaren and Arsenal have a significant amount in common. After enjoying a good deal of success 𒁃in the late 1980s to early ‘9🍒0s and around the turn of the millennium, both teams have now gone a significant amount of time without any major silverware, lacking a championship in over a decade.

There is still a decent budget there to be spent when the time is right to bring in some of the sport’s biggest stars (be it Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, or Mesut Ozil and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang), but the stars are still not quite aligning for a return t♛o the top. Keeping hold of top-drawer talent can prove challenging, particularly when more successful rivals come knocking (Lewis Hamilton; Robin van Persie, Alexis Sanchez).

Hammering home the uncanny parrallels, both ♈McLaren and Arsenal recently deposed long-time top bosses who were given c🍌redit for laying down the legacy of each team only to be shuffled out of the picture after poor results tarnished iconic reputations. Ron Dennis and Arsene Wenger could swap some stories!