Arsenal: Sead Kolasinac’s show of ambition big enough

Arsenal wasted no time addressing a rather large need when they landed Sead Kolasinac. Wasn’t that proof enough of their ambition?

Arsenal has been (rightly?) accused of not having the required ambition to win the big trophies that they ‘so desire’ in recent years and that is what has lead to the situation they are currently in, with so much being held together by the waning belief that Arsene Wenger can find the magic once again.

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This topic of ambition really came to the forefront when Alexis Sanchez came to town and openly criticized his team mates for not having hunger. He wanted to see a show of ambition from his club and from the looks of it, he is still waiting.

But wasn’t Sead Kolasinac a massive show of ambition? Wenger was like a bloodhound with this guy, doing a very un-Wenger like thing and wrapping up and announcing this massive deal before the window even opened.

Think about it. As it stands, both Nacho Monreal and Kieran Gibbs can play left wing back/standard left back and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has shown that he can play wide left as well. Meaning that if you want to get down to a stingy point of view, we didn’t really need Kolsinac. After all, Wenger has spent these past few years letting Monreal and Gibbs swap blows.

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Pegging Kolasinac so early and showing so little hesitation showed a burning ambition to right a position that has been wobbling for far too long. It may not seem like much, but for Wenger and this club, it absolutely is.

And while nothing has come of it since, there has been a fire lit under the arse of the braintrust here in North London, as they have been snapping at the heels of numerous players.

That is, unless this ‘show of ambition’ that Alexis wanted to see really was all about the money and not the actual product. Kolasinac was free and, again, that has to contribute to the lack of praise this move is getting. He was absolutely worth £30m given his stellar Bundesliga team of the year season, but Wenger played it smart and got him for nothing.

If Alexis really was just waiting for a show of ambition, then this was it. And if this wasn’t enough for him, then he was never going to stay in the first place.

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Not that Arsenal should settle for Kolasinac and ride the rest of the summer into the sunset in silence, but the Chilean has to realize how things have changed.