I dont know why this keeps being brought up. Since then, Akpom has scored 14 total goals (22 if you count all comps). Gyokeres has scored 51 in that same time frame (and 77 if you count all comps).
It was a statistical anomaly for Akpom (and those two were #1 and #2 in scoring for that Championship season). Gyokeres has gone on to bag tons for Sporting, and is 3 years younger.
We're getting neither so why does it matter 
The question is more about how much value can you place on the Portuguese league stats. Not that Akpom is better than Gyokeres or anything like that.
It's a bit disappointing that we're not bringing anyone in but it's the right decision to not panic.
No point blasting on someone we will eventually want rid of like Watkins or Cunha. Sucks for this season but I think it's the right call.
TambourineMan This is largely my mindset too. I'm not sure Watkins would be a waste this year but personally if it cost us a chance in the summer to get Sesko or make a run at Isak if Newcastle doesn't get Champs League, I'd be pretty disappointed. Now, if bringing him in got us the title this year, that's another story! I'm just still on cloud 9 from yesterday - that was easily one of my most enjoyable Arsenal wins in the last decade.
What really sucks is admitting it's very hard to make any kind of signing that decisively turns around a probable 9 point deficit to the league leaders at the end of January. We needed to get closer to Liverpool by now but we've only kept pace.
Burnwinter Liverpool currently on 92 point pace. I think, if they continue like that to the end of the season (I still don't think they will), it's salut and come back again next season.
RocktheCasbah They've had it all go their way so far; a bit like us in 22-23. They'll be extremely lucky if they don't run into some bad weather at some point.
What time does the window slam shut?
lorddulaarsenal 23h00 GMT
SimplyThePest We've been saying that since November though and they haven't. I think they are just a really good side riding a tremendous season from their best player and also getting almost every 50/50 decision and injury luck to go their way. They can both be very good and really lucky unfortunately- they aren't mutually exclusive this season. The xG difference table is quite stunning right now. I think they are almost double the second place team, which I believe is us. That doesn't happen just by luck.
Claudius Sooo around 6 hours left for us stateside?
5 hours
samthegooner I didn't say they're not a good side - they are. Even so, you still need things to go your way, e.g. major competitor A being ravaged by injuries and questionable refereeing decisions and major competitor B having a spell off the PEDs (lol).
That said, if they canter to the title with 90+ points, there isn't much to be said other than fair play.
samthegooner We've been saying that since November though and they haven't.
There's still time. I know it doesn't seem likely now, but as Simply says, it happened to us two seasons ago. It happened to Liverpool (and quite brutally) last season, which is something everyone seems to have forgotten in rushing to crown them champions in February - although I do also think the fact it happened to them last season may prevent a recurrence this time around.
But yeah... If they get to 92 points, there's not much we can say about that.
SimplyThePest I think part of the frustration for me is Arteta and Arsenal need to get a 90 point season that's what we've needed to target on at least a couple of occasions because if you deliver that you would be incredibly unlucky even in the City era not to pick up a trophy. As good as we've been we haven't been able to achieve that yet
Wow. Really thought I'd see at least a tenuous deadline day link posted here over the last couple of hours.
awooga83 I hear ya, man. Look, our points per game is trending up. We were tracking for low-mid 70s not long ago. We're tracking for about 80 now. We've just got to keep the pressure on.
We kinda gotta beat Newcastle now.
