Early summer: Worked for months on Morgan Rogers. Mikel’s main target, after Kenan was not for sale. Got Morgan on board and knew we could do it for £85 - 100m but decided to play the field to spin plates. Waited too long, and now the Elliott A. deal dictates the new market price. Villa now want more than £115m

The club decide, after weeks of delaying, to finally engage in some talks with Villa, who tell us they want an amount close to the Elliott A. deal. While we delay, Alonso has spoken to Morgan, Behdad has spoken to Nassef, and they wrap up months of our work and delays in 36 hours. We were even offered the chance to match and refused.

The departure of Nwaneri/Martinelli/Jesus/Trossard in this window means:

A) Eze is practically our only realistic option for being the player that rotates and acts as backup in the LW position (or vice versa with Tzolis).

B) Odegaard no longer has cover because Eze will be doing that at LW as we start playing every 3 days again and Nwaneri is now gone.

C) In order to facilitate Eze's full disposal to the LW which is absolutely necessary, Dowman or Merino will have to step up and deliver as the 2nd CAM.

D) One other "solution" is that Arteta might put Madueke at LW, in which case God have mercy on our collective souls.

We swung and missed on some big targets and that’s okay, but I rather that than spending millions on options our board and manager aren’t exactly fond of.

All things considered, Bruno, konsa are very big purchases and important ones, that’s the kind of signings we should make, not panic buys and 3rd options

We are the champions and Champions league finalists who offloaded 4 strikers and brought one from the Belgian league. While our opponents (almost relegated - like Shit) bought multiple players over 120 mil. euros.

I know Arteta wants to be smart and rational, but man after that success last season you don't look if someone is 10 mil. more or not. I know that it's hard to improve the squad we have, but we are one injury or two away from disaster. We are Arsenal - it will happen eventually.

I believe we shouldn't sell Trossard or Martinelli at this point. Both of them were cheap signings and low gamble if they go for free at the end.

We are really running on the edge for potential 68 games season and we had the damn money to buy one or two top forwards. Def and mid are fine.

As I wrote in the title I really wish I'm so wrong, overreacting and stupid, but it really feels bad. Is it tho?

Sorry for my great English.

Just pulled a 1/1 Odegaard from the new Topps champions collection!!!

Quality player with proven Premier League experience. Would be a decent addition to the squad.

Now he will be loyal, keep his mouth shut and protect the very same people. It's not fair. It's unaccaptable. Heads must roll.

Bro has only played three competitive games for us and he did great in two of them. Way too early to rush to any conclusion. We gotta give him more time finding his footing and building chemistry with the lads.

I know the club tried to sign high quality and ceiling raisers with the likes of Yildiz, Vini, Rogers and those just didn't work out.

But whats everyones thoughts on whether it would have been smarter (after realising those weren't working out) to sign high potential players on the rise like Antonio Nuse, Mika Godts (these players seem to be on a similar transition in their careers like when Olise went to Bayern or Doue to PSG and hit a higher performance level).

Its a bit frustrating that our be all and end all was certified ceiling raisers whilst ignoring investments in potential which seems like it will be the play anyways with a move for Kroupi type in Jan.

Because we have one of the best defense lines in the world, Arteta has the freedom to push both fullbacks to winger positions and it works. While our enemies focus on our established strong right wing, Calafiori was able to break through from the left and make back to back assists.

This guy hasnt played football in how long?!

Now someone explain to me that £55m for Martinelli is “a good sale”.

Someone please explain it to me. Whoever is in charge of sales at Chelsea is absolutely cooking - snatch them up! Will be the best signing we make for a long time!

Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri is traveling to undergo a medical ahead of a proposed deadline day loan move to Borussia Dortmund.

The attacking midfielder is set to join the Bundesliga club on a straight loan deal with no buy option, with all parties deciding this was the right opportunity for him to obtain more regular game time.

The Bundesliga side’s interest in the player pre-dates the anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered by new signing Giannis Konstantelias, who is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

Looks like our transfer business is done for the summer. I know lots of you are pissed but we got rid of alot of the deadwood. Now the squad is manageable which is nice. I think we can push with this squad till January. I know we might not do business in Jan but trossard came in January but who knows. All in all i'm relaxed, hw about you guys

First this sub screams to "back the manager" but when we do and are upset that by all accounts the manager hasn’t been backed these same people downvote you to oblivion and demean your talking points.

Objectively our main mission of strengthening the attack has failed to such an extent that we are now weaker in attack yet we have to pretend this didn’t happen?

Sure we are still favourites for the league but we had an opportunity to kill off the league before it began. We had an opportunity to be ruthless and stamp our mark in Europe by being strong on all fronts. Yet we delayed and delayed until now we are weaker (in attack) than before.

Can we win the league? Yes. Can we win the champs? Yes. But we could’ve been #1 in the world. The greatest.

Guys, what do you think—will there be a big surprise today? I’d really love to welcome Endrick. Who would you like to see on the team?

If he's not injured then it simply means the Manager doesn't have any trust in him. Seems like a player on his way out.

Both Calafiori and White were stationed insanely high up the pitch today. Do you think this is some tactical test against weaker opposition, or our new tactical norm?