Arsenal: Sead Kolasinac being purposely overlooked yet again

Arsenal’s divide has numerous points on each side of the schism, but yet again, Sead Kolasinac has bee ignored as if he never even happened.

Arsenal’s loss to Watford has seemingly undone all the hard work they put in making September perfect. Don’t worry, I’m not here to say that we should just look past the loss at Vicarage Road. I was just as pissed off as everyone else. I’m still pissed, even after seeing Olivier Giroud’s beautiful overhead kick.

But in the aftermath, the criticism has again been raised that the Gunners “only invested in Alexandre Lacazette,” as Robert Pires put it.

Now, I get what he is saying and I don’t disagree with it. He is saying that the Gunners only spent that minuscule amount of money when they could have spent so much more on other potential solutions.

That bit makes sense, and, like I said, I absolutely agree. But it’s the part where he, and others, say that he “only invested in Lacazette,” with an emphasis on the “only.”

I feel like it’s a contrived argument people conjure up to criticize the club while ignoring that, yet again, as we continue to prove, money isn’t always everything. Price isn’t everything. There are so many examples of this throughout the game, even in today’s massively inflated transfer market.

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Sead Kolasinac is the best example. Again, strategically overlooked by all these criticisms and disregarded when considering the “investments” of the club. He was even put down as a “non-impactful” signing by various talking heads on baseless claims that, when questioned, they didn’t bother to answer for.

If you are going to make the argument that Arsenal did not invest in the club, that’s fine. But if your idea of an investment is limited strictly to cash money signings, then you’re wrong.

Kolasinac has been an absolute Godsent this year. He has put an entire positional debate to bed and he did it instantaneously. As soon as he was deployed at left wingback, we had one less thing to worry about.

And, you may recall, there was a lot of worry about that position, because it was clear that Nacho Monreal was not a wingback. Couple that with that guy that slithered away to sit on the bench at Liverpool and the loss of the honorable Kieran Gibbs and we could have been in one hell of a pickle.

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But we aren’t. Because of one man. If that isn’t an investment in the club, I don’t know what is.

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