For once, the captaincy is not at issue Arsenal which highlights just how much things have improved on and off the pitch in the past year.
It's coming up to 12 months since Mikel Arteta made a bold decision to strip Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of the armband as a punishment for another disciplinary issue before entrusting Alexandre Lacazette to skipper the side for the remainder of the 2021/22 season.
Of course, that was always expected to be a short-term solution and with the Frenchman being released when his contract expired at the end of June, Arteta needed to name a replacement and did so by appointing Martin Odegaard as Arsenal's new permanent captain in the summer.
