Arsenal: Waiting for Denis Suarez isn’t fun anymore

Arsenal will have had three weeks with Denis Suarez going into BATE Borisov, and without wanting to sound too much like a brat – I’m sick of waiting!

Please allow me to sound like a spoiled rotten brat for just a few hundred words, will you? Honestly, it’s far from the worst you’ll hear from an Arsenal fan, and it certainly isn’t taking a negative turn on a positive result, like winning against Huddersfield.

It’s just my growing desperation to see Denis Suarez out there in the first team from the opening whistle. Which I didn’t think would be too much of an ask against Huddersfield and I honestly didn’t think it would be too much to ask against Manchester City either.

The thing is, and this is a thing that I have said about 173 times over the past month, is that Suarez is here to do a job that isn’t being done. Literally, it just isn’t being done. So even if he doesn’t do the job right from the off, we haven’t really suffered, have we? Because no one else is doing the job either.

So, on to the spoiled brat portion of this. At first, I was super excited to wait for Suarez to get on the pitch. I didn’t mind the patience, though I’d have done it differently myself. It’s the same thrill you get any time there’s a new signing, this excitement to see him, but the understanding that it takes time.

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It’s still fun, the process of waiting. You get to see him come on as a sub and every touch feels like pure gold because we are easily excitable fans and he’s a new signing.

But the fun of waiting has worn off for me. Like, it’s gone. It left after he hardly featured against Huddersfield and now I’m just waiting for him to start like I’m waiting on a dentist appointment. Like, I fully understand that this could take forever and I really don’t understand why, because there is no one else in the waiting room with me.

Hopefully, when the time does come, it will be more fun than having another grown adult floss me, but the time has come.

BATE Borisov is it. If he doesn’t start in that one, I will be a much more insufferable spoiled brat than I just was. This was the cautionary tale. Hopefully nothing else has to follow.