Holidays are good but in the world of Arsenal, if you look away for an hour the chance of missing some major chaos on or off the pitch is a high possibility. Therefore, it is unsurprising that transfers, unreasonable analysis and strange decision-making have all transpired.
Timing a honeymoon for the international break might appear genius, although it was completely coincidental (or at least that’s what Mrs Canton thinks) yet Bukayo Saka, Ethan Nwaneri and Dusan Vlahovic have still been of hot discussion. Some of the criticisms levelled at Arsenal, in particular, have been farcical, to say the least.
Outside of these, the injury news regarding Emile Smith-Rowe comes as a major blow ahead of a month with nine games. Whilst Raul Sanllehi is back in the Arsenal sphere having criticised the club’s decision to promote Mikel Arteta, although, based on how the club have progressed since the former Head of Football left it might be wise not to assume these words have too much credit.