The beginning of 2025 has been tumultuous for Arsenal with an impressive win to kick off the year before disappointing results at Brighton and at home to Newcastle to bring us back down to reality, hard. The feeling of misfortune remains strong, especially following the contentious penalty call at the Amex Stadium and the glut of chances wasted against the Magpies.
Yet it is the lack of clinical finishing that remains high up in concerns for a number of people, and that leads us into the state of the transfer window. Arsenal have money to spend, to a degree, following the end of the summer window when both Aaron Ramsdale and Eddie Nketiah were sold.
This added to what was made from the sale of Emile Smith Rowe and, if you look at how all three have performed since leaving the club, to have brought in around £90million, including add-ons looks like excellent business. Yet that has not bought with it much credence in regard to the lack of offensive signings in particular.
