If Arsenal fans are deflated that they didn’t ultimately get that “X-factor star”, it’s a feeling shared within the squad. Some of them agree they are thin in that area, especially after losing the popular Gabriel Martinelli. But it’s encouraging in other ways. That's how competitive they now are. They want players in there who will help them, as Chelsea might say, to win it all.
This weekend, mind, football is now doing what it does and throwing up one of those little narrative twists. In the first match after a highly debated window, Arsenal face the left-sided attacker they could have had and now need; here’s what you could have won with.
