Arsenal: Damn right the transfer business is complete

Unai Emery believes that Arsenal’s transfer business is complete. Normally, in years past, we’d be up in arms, but this time around, he’s right.

It had become such a common thing for Arsenal to go into a transfer window with a clear list of needs and to emerge at the other end with, at most, half of those needs checked off, and many of them checked off half-heartedly.

Needless to say, that’s not a good trend to get into. We, as fans, expected the club to go into season’s unprepared and the club continued to live up to this prestigious expectation.

This summer, the first with Unai Emery in charge and a competent transfer crew in the summer driver’s seat, has been massively different. So different that even the most dire fans don’t have much to complain about.

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That’s because on the laundry list of things to accomplish, very few things remain undone. And with over a month still to go before the start of the season, arguably the most important part of the summer – the transfers – are done.

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That is, according to Unai Emery, who said that unless they find a stellar deal, they are now just in season prep mode.

And that makes total sense. All of the immediate needs have been answered. We have a new keeper. We have help on defense. We have more fire, more passion, more leadership and we have a perfectly crafted midfield full of dynamism and variety to match an attack that was already of similar attritbues.

The only, only thing that wasn’t accomplished was the signing of a winger or two, but even still, with everything else that has been accomplished, we can’t be that upset. It’s not like avoiding signing a striker for two years, letting Olivier Giroud be the only one and then signing Danny Welbeck at the last minute.

This has been clean, comprehensive and convincing. The people in charge of this club know what they’re doing and they are going to prove that tenfold come next season.

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There may be some things still yet to accomplish in-house, but it’s nice not having waited until transfer deadline day just for the off-chance that Arsene Wenger would pull some transfer magic. Because honestly, it rarely ever happened.