Could be brilliant in the role we are trying to make Elneny play

The first 120 seconds of the spurs v Man U game has already seen more chances and good quality attacking moves than arsenal managed in the whole Swansea game. The gulf in quality from us to these two teams is huge.

We beat Tottenham already this season.

So you think we are a better team than Tottenham right now? And by that logic Huddersfield are better than Man U

No I don't think we are better than Tottenham but neither do I think there is a huge gulf in quality. We thoroughly outplayed them a few weeks ago. You are talking about us as if we are relegation fodder.

Two goals now for Walcott. No point saying why wasn’t he used more because he was stuck in a rut at arsenal and was never going to get any sort of of form under wenger and the way the team plays.

Good luck to him. Hope he can play himself in to the World Cup squad. Our defence is going to have absolute kittens facing the counter attack from Everton next weekend

You are talking about us as if we are relegation fodder.

We're playing them in 10 days, we'll see what happens then.

No I don't think we are better than Tottenham but neither do I think there is a huge gulf in quality. We thoroughly outplayed them a few weeks ago. You are talking about us as if we are relegation fodder.

you obviously missed yesterday's match Dec ....?

Well we are closer to the relegation clubs than City. The gap to spurs is getting wider and I’d bet it only gets bigger at the end of the season. Look beyond just points and look at what happens on the pitch. Every team above us has a clear plan and style of playing with a relatively settled side who generally do not gift bang average teams goals and throw away leads to relegation threatened teams.

We raised our game v spurs, yep, but any team in this league can raise their game. How many times in the last 5 years have we thoroughly outplayed a top team vs the times we’ve been thoroughly outplayed. I thinking of the regular maulings at Anfield, the usual 2-0 at Stamford bride, when was the last time we won at old Trafford?

In a one off game at our best we can certainly match these teams above us, but we do this on OMG a handful of occasions and those above us do it far more regularly. So yes I really do think there is a gulf in class at the moment.

Whatever spirits were raised with the Aubameyang deal and Özil re signing only gloss over yet another awful season of transfer activity from arsenal.

Nobody seen the Chelsea score?

Ollie will be disappointed.............

Offhand the only players who would get in the Tottenham first team are Özil and possibly Ramsey. Can’t say on Aubameyang yet.

Managers it’s a no-brainier.

Have to disagree a bit here. The summer was a complete mess by us, and that directly contributed to losing Sanchez in January, but after that this month has been a breath of fresh air.

We've gotten rid of four first team players who really didn't have a place in the team anymore - that's a lot of wage coming off the books. We needed to get rid of players in order to add, not because of money for transfer fees but for clearing squad places and creating space in the wage budget. On top of that we added two starting quality players.

There's a lot less to do in the summer now. Still one or two players to get rid off, but for the most part we can focus on bringing players in. In terms of squad management we made a lot of good moves this month.

The first team squad as listed on Arsenal.com has 23 players and that includes Mavropanos, Mertesacker and Cazorla. That is a very small first team squad

Agree about that, but the transfer window was clearly not just about this season. I don't think our needs for the future has changed much (apart from us definitely being set on strikers) but several of the players we needed to shift in order to make room for newcomers are now gone so we don't have to worry about that this summer. We can now add 3-4 players without getting rid of anyone.

Add to that the addition of Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan and new contract for Özil and I'd argue that we're better prepared for the future than we were going into January.

At least their owner will sack a failing manager.. unlike our useless parasite who rewards failure as long as profits are maintained.

Do we really want that anyway?!, Conte seems to be one of the few managers who hasn't worked Wenger out yet!!.

Conte is a very good manager. It is pretty obvious that he has been undermined at Chelsea in terms of transfers. I really hope that Wenger leaves in the summer and we get Conte to replace hIm.

Conte is a very good manager. It is pretty obvious that he has been undermined at Chelsea in terms of transfers. I really hope that Wenger leaves in the summer and we get Conte to replace hIm.

Hi Haz, I agree this transfer window has prepared us better for the future but I suppose I'm just entrenched in glass half empty mode with Arsenal.

Well, can't really blame you for that! I do think the 8 players in sounds a bit much. We have 23 players now. Take away Mertesacker, Cazorla and one of the goalkeepers and replace them with four players of starting quality, and we have a squad of 24 players who can all contribute in some way. Much criticised players like Mustafi and Xhaka would fall down the pecking order to where we wouldn't have to rely on them so much.

A bit simplified, but you get my point. The most important thing we did in January was settle the squad a bit more. Sanchez and Özil situation resolved, a couple of surplus to requirement players sold, and a few quality additions. Main thing for me is being able to focus more on just adding to the existing squad rather than trying to get clubs to take on players we don't need anymore. Seems like we have a few targets in mind going by the late rumours!

And then of course there's question marks about our formation, lacklustre offense, inability to defend etc, but let's not get into that.