Arsenal: Watch the transfer madness incoming this week

Arsenal have done next to nothing this transfer window, but that all changes this week. Because there’s nothing in the way now.

When you really get down to it, I don’t think anyone really knows anything about Arsenal and their transfer business. All these “in the knows” claim to see behind the curtain, but just because you get one thing out of a hundred right doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about.

Especially with the budget. Who actually knows what the club will and won’t spend? They went above their budget last summer, and that means that the same capability exists this summer as well. That maybe the paltry sum being reported is just a blind guess.

Even with how slow this transfer window has gone, we know that the club is going to make signings. That’s a fact. Many thought it would happen after July 1st, when the Adidas deal kicked in, but that only got us Gabriel Martinelli.

The only other thing in the way, as I mentioned in a previous post, is getting Edu to the club to be in charge of all of this stuff. That’s taken care of now that the Copa America is over. Meaning that nothing is in the way of the transfer madness.

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Expect things to happen this week. I’m not an “in the know,” and I’ll never claim to be (nor should just about anyone), but context clues are a powerful thing, and I’m using that power now. All you have to do is study how the team handles business in the past to know how they are going to get things started this time around. They have everyone on board now, they have the funds, the international competitions are over.

The problem with having this “beginning” so far after the actual beginning is that the list of players we have missed out on is extensive and it is disheartening. It feels like all the good deals that we were going to pull out were pulled off by other teams, leaving us to find hidden funds to buy the distinctly overpriced guys like Wilfried Zaha.

Such is the challenge that Edu now faces. This is all a long-term investment, but you can bet that the fans won’t see it that way if this year struggles to take flight.

Oh well, at least we can expect to see things happening now. The mundanity of this window can finally come to an end.