Arsenal: Only one Gylfi Sigurdsson gripe makes sense

Arsenal supporters are pretty livid that Everton landed Gylfi Sigurdsson, but there is only one gripe that they can really feel justified about.

Arsenal supporters are always going to be wanting something more and for the most part, I can understand the impatience. So many years of expecting a high-impact signing can leave a fan base a little jaded.

Therefore, the news that Everton landed Gylfi Sigurdsson for £45m was never going to be taken lightly by Gooners. Not by a long shot. After all, why should other teams improve when Arsenal hasn’t made a signing in a month?

Then the graphics started coming out about how the Gunners make about four times the money as Everton, yet Everton have spent four times as much as the Gunners. Because, as we have come to find out, spending is the end goal. So long as a team is spending, they are winning. Just ask those two Manchester clubs.

Not.

This is the gripe I don’t get. I thought we’d have learned by now. Sead Kolasinac was free, does that automatically make him a bad signing? It’s not the price tag. It’s not the total amount spent, it’s what you get in return.

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However, there is one gripe I will absolutely agree with, and it’s the lesser used gripe. Why weren’t the Gunners in on the Icelandic creator?

After spending the season flirting with creative names like Emil Forsberg and Thomas Lemar, you’d think that a similar player who has Premier League experience would be on the radar. Not to mention a price tag that the Gunners were supposedly willing to pay for Lemar.

With Alexis Sanchez on the brink of an exit, I wouldn’t have minded an attacking core of Sigurdsson and Mesut Ozil. That’s a heck of a lot of creation and while we lose Alexis’s set-piece expertise, we gain Sigurdsson’s, and he’s even better at it.

The only fault I can find in this idea is that you’d then have two attacking midfielders who aren’t really the most high-effort guys. They rely on creativity. But if you’ve done it once, why not do it again? And the threat of Sigurdsson from deep fits so well with our existing threats of Granit Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey.

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That’s the part I don’t get. It feels like maybe Arsene Wenger has already shut up shop. But again, if he didn’t see what he wanted in Sigurdsson, maybe that’s because Lemar or Forsberg is waiting next summer. Who really knows.

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