Arsenal: This transfer window has gone into a premature tailspin

Nothing has actually happened yet in this transfer window, yet Arsenal are already in a premature tailspin, and they need to pull out of it soon.

Let me give you a quick breakdown of Arsenal‘s transfer rumors thus far into the window, solely because I think it will be remarkably entertaining.

It started off so well. We looked confident in bringing in an array of players: Joachim Andersen, William Saliba, Dennis Praet, Alexis Claude-Maurice, Yannick Carrasco, Ryan Fraser. They were submitting bids, they were making contact.

Since then, Andersen and Praet have been denied twice, the price going up each time, Saliba looks like a no-go, Fraser has declared that he will probably stay at Bournemouth, leaving Arsenal optimistic about two guys – Alexis Claude-Maurice and Yannick Carrasco.

Meanwhile, they have been linked to a far-too-early sale of Lucas Torreira, an ill-advised sale of Granit Xhaka, a potential breaking up of our dynamic striking duo, a way underpriced sale of Calum Chambers and still.

No one is talking about selling Ozil or Mkhitaryan or Mustafi. No, we’re too busy selling vital players, and underselling players with tremendous potential.

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Again, nothing has been done yet. But what started out so promising has sense gone into one hell of a tailspin, where we are looking more likely to sell handfuls of vital players than to bring in anyone that we actually need.

We’re linked to more keepers, despite the claim that Emi Martinez was given the No. 2 role, we’re linked to losing Laurent Koscielny to Borussia Dortmund, meaning that in the end, we merely swapped Sokratis for Koscielny, and I truly wonder if the people in charge know what they’re doing.

Or, for that matter, if there are even people in charge, seeing as how no one exactly replaced Sven Mislintat.

It’s all quite troubling, in a calm before the storm kind of way. I want to believe that, since nothing has happened, none of this really matters, but for as much as we hate transfer rumors, generally when they are being widely talked about, as many of these things are, they tend to happen. And generally, when bids continually get rejected, it becomes harder and harder to complete them.

But hey, on the bright side, we’re close to selling David Ospina for £3.1m, so at least we have that going for us. Let it not be said that nothing is being done!