Arsenal: Ousmane Dembele the capstone of Sven Mislintat impact

Arsenal have milked Sven Mislintat’s Borussia Dortmund connection for all its worth, but there is one final piece to put the puzzle together.

As Arsenal supporters, we have been trained to not expect any big-time transfers. If they do come, they will be sporadic and still fairly reasonable. At least, that is how it was. But the January transfer window took that reality and crushed it.

Using Sven Mislintat’s Borussia Dortmund connection to reunite the dynamic duo of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was a stroke of utter brilliance that would likely not have been possible without Mislintat.

What also would have been deemed impossible is the new link to Ousmane Dembele, who has struggled to catch on in his hasty rise to the top with Barcelona. The young Frenchman who was prematurely billed as the replacement to Neymar, has not been the bees knees in the Catalans and reports indicate that he is openly expressing his displeasure.

In steps Sven Mislintat, the man who discovered Dembele in the first place while at Dortmund. In steps Aubameyang, who struck up a relationship with Dembele in their one year together at Dortmund. It’s all a happy family.

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But the crowned jewel in all of this isn’t Aubameyang or Mkhtitaryan or even Mislintat. It’s Dembele. Dembele would be the unquestionable coup-de-tat of this entire transition because it fits in with the needs of everyone that has any interest.

To the fans, it’s a major signing, something they are always calling for. To the team, it is a winger that is a winger, and not a re-purposed central midfielder or forward. To Arsene Wenger, it is finally a young player, as opposed to Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan, who break the usual transfer mold of Le Prof by being in the latter stages of their prime.

Plus, Dembele is French, and Wenger hasn’t had a good young French signing in quite some time.

To Dembele, he is getting the keys to the mint. Teaming up with an attack that is already built for brilliance puts him in a position to get his career back on track. He has been one of the most-talked-about young players of the decade and can restart everything at Arsenal, where he will find a hell of a lot of similarities with what he had in his breakout year at Dortmund.

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It’s the perfect situation all around. There is literally no one that would have anything negative to say about it. And the best part of all is that it isn’t just a pipe dream.

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