Agreed Don.
I know it's a wildly unpopular opinion, but I think the main problem at Arsenal is that we just can't sell the players we don't want, which means we can't buy the players we do. That's partly a legacy of the terrible job Wenger et al did in his final few seasons, but it's also because the market is on its knees, and Edu and Arteta have made some bad calls.
We all know that we have Leno, Bellerin, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Willian, Pépé, Aubameyang, and Lacazette - they don't fit. Arteta has dropped all of them at one time or another, hinted about most of them publicly that they're not good fits for what he wants to do, and yet we can't find a club anywhere that will pay anything more for them than an insultingly low fee or any fee at all in most cases.
A couple of those are on Edu and Arteta, Willian is the obvious one that they got badly wrong. Aubameyang and his new contract is another, but the guy was having a world class season at the time, with the benefit of hindsight I think that was a bad mistake by Edu and Arteta. But then even then there were no offers that we know of when he had only a year left, we were in the midst of pandemic football at that time, and they would have been absilutely slaughtered if he walked away for free or agreed a pre-contract with one of the big boys in the January. Then there's Xhaka, and time will tell on that one. It looks like the wrong move to me because I think he's a hindrance to the football Arteta wants to play and we should have sold for the packet of crisps Roma were no doubt offering. So that might be another bad move by them.
But there are lots of others in the squad that are not on them, and they've already shifted a good number of them too. It's beeb a very, very bad time to try and overhaul the squad, that's the main point I'm making. The worst time in the history of modern football in fact.
