Make no mistake this is the worst Arsenal team in more than 20 years.
And just when you think things cannot get any worse, they are about to sell their best player.
The Arsenal empire that Arsene Wenger has built is crumbling around him and none of his players appear ready to dig in to save their fading manager.
The day started with Alexis Sanchez being left out of the Arsenal squad as he heads for the exit door and yet ended up as a bigger story because of the sorry capitulation at Bournemouth.
No fight, no hunger and a distinct lack of quality - barring Jack Wilshere who showed the passion and class so many others are missing - as Arsenal look horribly short in every department.
Manchester United are offering a player-plus-deal involving Henrikh Mkhitaryan but Arsenal had better see if they can get a keeper, defender, midfielder and a striker thrown in as well.
What must be even more worrying for the fans suffering in the away end is the way that the malaise has clearly spread to some of the other players.
Sanchez has given up, other members of the squad do not think the club is ambitious enough to replace him - and it really showed in their performances.
Wenger took over at Arsenal in 1996 and was responsible for signing great players like Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Sol Campbell and it is hard to imagine any of the current generation getting a game for any of his sides of the past.
Arsenal have become so horribly average, so predictable, a team of also-rans rather than challengers who look more likely to finish mid-table than top four.
Wilshere was brilliant for Arsenal in the first half, running the game, picking passes and using his strength to outmuscle Bournemouth who were very much second best.
But Arsenal did not create enough chances to match their build-up and possession. Ainsley Maitland-Niles crashed a shot against the crossbar and Bournemouth keeper Asmir Begovic denied Danny Welleck with a good block.
It was no surprise when Arsenal went ahead after 52 minutes and, predictably, Wilshere was involved in the build-up with Granit Xhaka before Alex Iwobi’s lovely through ball released Hector Bellerin who raced through.
Bellerin smashed a fierce low shot, it went through Begovic and eventually trickled over the line. Wenger, serving the final match of his three game touchline ban, could barely contain his relief in the directors’ box.
The Arsenal fans, revelling in some gallows humour, started chanting: “How bad must you be - we’re winning away.”
Arsenal have been woeful on their travels this season, losing at Stoke, Watford and now Bournemouth while getting thumped by anyone half decent. Their only away wins have come at Everton, Burnley and Crystal Palace.
That clearly says something about Arsenal and a lack of determination. And spirit is something that Bournemouth have got by the bucketload under Eddie Howe. Bournemouth have made a habit of giving the big boys a bloody nose if they do not match their desire.
Bournemouth’s pint sized winger Ryan Fraser never stopped, Callum Wilson and Jordon Ibe both showed pace and movement that Arsenal could not handle.
Fraser’s 70th minute right wing cross tempted keeper Petr Cech to come for a cross when he should have stayed at home and Wilson got there first to equalise while the rest of Arsenal’s defence went AWOL.
Four minutes later, Lewis Cook’s ball found Wilson and his lay-off found Ibe whose shot went beneath Cech and the fightback was complete.
Arsenal threw everything at Bournemouth but never looked like equalising. Alexandre Lacazette has now gone nine games without a goal and it shows, their final ball was poor and, without Sanchez and the injured Mesut Ozil, Arsenal look bang average.
Arsenal have yet to win in 2018, their worst start to any year since 1995 which was the year before Wenger arrived. If anyone can remember that far back.