Amongst the chaos of the transfer window which often sparks ‘best XI’ graphics on social media, we quickly begin to forget the players that Mikel Arteta has at his disposal. With the acquisitions of Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurrien Timber, there’s a desire to find out how they might all fit in.
Yet six months ago, successful signings are already being overlooked. I’ve been guilty of this myself and, for instance, completely forgot about Leandro Trossard’s brilliance at centre-forward last season.
In a discussion on The Arsenal Way with colleague Umar Choudhry, the talk turned to the depth of the squad in certain positions after the Gunners have added their three early new signings to the group. As the focus of the conversation became rooted in the striker role, I mooted that were Gabriel Jesus to get injured we’d arguably still have something of a depth problem.
