Arsenal: Maybe a loan isn’t such a bad idea after all…

Arsenal are supposedly only able to make loan deals this January, but given the state of things, is that really such a bad thing to face?

It feels emasculating knowing that Arsenal are dead broke this month. So broke that, even with Unai Emery admitting that they need help on defense, and with wide attackers, we won’t be able to purchase anyone. There just aren’t any funds.

Stan Kroenke invests none of his own money and until the revenue from the Adidas deal kicks in this summer, the club has absolutely nothing. It’s hard to fathom – really it is. But the situation is what it is.

Emery admitted that the only possible deals that can be struck this winter will be loans. Loans are, along with a defensive midfielder, the only two things that Arsene Wenger strictly forbid. He would have nothing to do with them.

For Wenger, I understand why. He was a man with an established way about him. He knew what players he wanted and didn’t want to give them a run around before buying them. He’s the kind of guy that walks into a used car lot and knows more about the exact car he wants to buy than the dealer themselves.

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Unai Emery’s situation is different. Unai Emery is playing around with a heaping of Wenger-esque players with just a few odd-spatterings of his own players acquired in the summer. As we can tell by the constant experimentation, Unai Emery doesn’t exactly have a clear-cut direction yet with this club.

He is still testing things out with different players playing different roles, and that works just fine.

But in terms of potential deals, wouldn’t it make more sense therefore to loan a few players that you might want to buy later, rather than buying them only to discover six months later that they weren’t what you needed after all.

For instance, Denis Suarez is being talked about as a winger. I don’t know about you, but that really doesn’t strike me as something you want to be investing in long-term without trying it out first?

Suarez is not your typical Premier League winger. Maybe he’d be great at it, but the fact that he’s been out of playing time at Barcelona so long makes me really want to see how he handles it before we go in and purchase him for good.

This is why loans exist. Maybe it’s time we start using them.