Theo Walcott maintains Arsenal's young Gunners will have learned lessons from last season and has vowed they will win some silverware.
While most of the Arsenal first-team group have already returned to pre-season training, Walcott has been given extra time off to recover from a busy summer of international duty with the England Under-21s, who reached the European Championships final.
Holland international Robin van Persie, now signed up on a new, long-term deal, and captain Cesc Fabregas, who was away with Spain at the Confederations Cup, are also scheduled to link up with the squad ahead of the training camp in Austria, which will involve three matches before returning to London for the Emirates Cup.
Walcott knows when the action starts for real at Everton on August 15, Arsene Wenger's men have to prove they can turn potential into consistent results over the course of the campaign.
"It was a good learning curve for us all, but next year it is all about the trophies," Walcott said in the July edition of the official Arsenal magazine.
"Hopefully we have had the years of experience now and can bring something back for the fans.
"For me it was an up-and-down season - you are never really going to have a perfect one, but I am happy that my (shoulder) injury has gone so that I can come back to Arsenal and win things."
Walcott was, like Fabregas, one of the Gunners' key men to miss a large chunk of the last campaign, when Arsenal did recover some form to reach the semi-finals of both the Champions League and FA Cup.
With a fully fit squad to chose from, which could soon include Czech winger Tomas Rosicky, the England forward is confident Arsenal can compete.
"We had a bad spell mid-season and having so many injuries did not help," Walcott said.
"It you take five or six players out of Manchester United, Liverpool or Chelsea teams they are going to struggle to get points too.
"The players who came in did very well though, and in the end we just got our heads down, took things game by game and got the points to finish fourth very comfortably in the end."
Source: Foxsports.com
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