Liverpool’s Champions League winning squad could not get in contact with him. He is now a regular in the England squad and has won eight caps for the Three Lions. It turned out to be the best performing season for Ben Arfa - scoring a whopping 17 league goals and five assists as he re-found his love for the game. at West Ham 4-2 as Hammers slump continuesThe transfer business of the Hammers in the summer is already looking questionable and the team looks a shadow of the one that did so well last season. Getty Images11Wayne Rooney has been out of sorts all season for Manchester United – is it time. ably, Arsenals best right-back since Lee DixonLaurent KoscielnyDespite Arsenal fans grumblings over recent years that the side have become the nearly men in the Premier League, Laurent Koscielny has established himself as the bedrock of the Arsenal defence. entral midfield displaysFreddie LjungbergSigned as a relative unknown from Halmstads in Sweden back for £3million in 1998, Ljungberg went on to become somewhat of a cult hero with the Arsenal fans. Manchester City are already five points clear of the pair at the top - allowing that advantage to gr. e true when Ben Arfa scored on his debut for his new side against Lyon in the French equivalent of the Community Shield. TWO months into the season and already Hatem Ben Arfa finds himself an isolated figure in the Paris-Saint Germain dressing room.