Arsenal: I see you Denis Suarez!

Arsenal didn’t start Denis Suarez again, but in his substitute appearance, I saw him, and I want to help you see him too.

Arsenal thumped Bournemouth in a thrilling, if not chaotic, affair at the Emirates, boasting five goals from five different goalscorers, and four assists coming from their three most creative players – Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac.

It was a match built for the attackers. The Fab Four took center stage and continued to add credibility to this quartet that I had written off for dead just about a month ago. Any two of the Fab Four can combine so well that, when they’re firing on all cylinders, the other two might as well not exist.

The strength is in the depth.

Denis Suarez is not a part of this conversation. Nowhere close. The closes he gets to the Fab Four conversation is in the fact that he was brought in because half of the four weren’t upholding their end of the bargain and Suarez was seen as the solution.

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He’s not even played 90 minutes yet (85 to be exact) across five appearances, and you could be forgiven for joining the multitude asking why exactly he’s here at all.

Though, in answer, you can see why Unai Emery was insistent that he get him on loan, and not through a straight purchase. Nor yet, anyway.

I hate to say that I had not seen a single iota of positivity in Suarez… up until Bournemouth. A single crafty look, or one savvy dribble isn’t enough to show me your value, but he put a fresh helping of looks, dribbles and runs together in his brief cameo against the Cherries to make me stand up and yell at my cat, “I see you Denis!” (That isn’t my cats name.)

That said, while I haven’t seen what I would have liked thus far into Suarez’s time at the Emirates, I got pretty pumped up from his effort against Bournemouth. Say what you will about the state of the match by the time he came on, but this man wanted it. He wanted to be a part of it, to keep the fun going, and it showed in a big way, even if he didn’t have much time to play with.

It wasn’t much, I understand that. But it was his first big step in the right direction. I felt like he belonged; like he could do some damage if given the chance.