Inaction in the last transfer window cost Arsenal a place in the Champions League. They should avoid the ‘what might have been?’ question this time around.
Everything has gone incredibly well for Arsenal since the end of last season. You feared for them after failing to qualify for the Champions League. Who would they be able to sign? Would the academy graduates be lured away? Would fifth place be their ceiling with their rivals able to attract better players and spend more on them?
Arsenal are currently top of the table with the only 100% record in the Premier League, with their summer arrivals playing a huge role in their excellent start. They are now third favourites to win the title among many bookmakers. The vibes are good.
Positivity on the pitch is matched off it, as the fly-on-the-wall documentary has brought the club and the fanbase as close as they’ve been since those heady early noughties days.
Had Arsenal started poorly, the lightbulb jibes would have been rife and the speakers scene would have been clipped up and dubbed with Simon & Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence. Mikel Arteta would be the trainee teacher known to use one hare-brained method to motivate his baffled students before moving onto the next one doomed to fail.
There’s none of that. The performances and results at the start of this season instead frame ‘All or Nothing: Arsenal’ in the way the club was hoping, forcing us to remove our cynicism goggles and accept this idyllic picture of an eccentric, bright young manager, guiding a group of talented yet humble players through a ‘process’ that no-one can deny is working pretty f***ing well.
Arteta doesn’t need a lightbulb to sit in the dark and cry. See, it would have been so easy; here’s hoping they have a bad day soon before similarly genius comedic material goes to waste.
It’s easy to get giddy after three wins in three, and many people will wait to reserve judgement until they’ve been ‘properly tested’. But they may well have collected a significant points haul before that test comes.
Arsenal now have five winnable games on the bounce, at home against Fulham, Aston Villa and Everton, and away to Manchester United and Brentford – they can make hay while the sun shines. It’s not until October that things become ‘trickier’ as they face Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City in less than three weeks, but even then, all of those games are at home.
If they continue to play as they are and can…
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