Many fans baulked at the idea a club of Arsenal's stature would hand the reins to a man with no prior managerial experience back in December of 2019.
Eight months later, when Mikel Arteta was holding aloft the FA Cup to mark a first major honour won as a boss in his first half-season at the helm - Gunners fans thought the good times would never stop. What followed the next season was some of the worst form the club has seen since the 1950's.
To say Arteta's tenure has been turbulent would be an understatement, but at long last - two and a half years in, there finally appears to be some calmness. "What is more important - the journey or the destination?," Arteta can be heard pondering in the latest trailer of the club's upcoming Amazon 'All or Nothing' series.