As a football club, Arsenal have been utterly transformed over the last few years.
Gone are the days of struggling to break into the top four, as the only objective Mikel Arteta and his side have in the Premier League these days is to win it.
However, it’s not just on the pitch where the Gunners have dramatically improved, as their work in the transfer market is practically unrecognisable from four or five years ago, both in terms of incomings and outgoings.
For example, a player the club let go for a pittance in 2018 has been outscoring Gabriel Martinelli over the last season or so.
Martinelli’s recent form
So, while there were a lot of issues with Arsenal’s transfer policy during the mid-to-late 2010s, a signing who’s been an unequivocal success from that period is Martinelli.
The Brazilian dynamo joined the North Londoners from Ituano for just £6m in 2019, and since then, he has made 177 appearances for the club, in which he has scored 41 goals and provided 24 assists, equating to a reasonably impressive average of a goal involvement once every 2.72 games.
That said, it was in the 22/23 campaign that the Guarulhos-born gem really stepped up a level and showed the rest of the league that he has the raw ability to become something special, scoring 15 goals and providing six assists in 46 matches, meaning he maintained an incredible average of a goal involvement every 2.19 games.
