Arsenal: 4 talking points as Nketiah salvages draw vs Fulham

Arsenal Squad Depth Limiting Success

Speaking of consistency, it is impossible to have that when the backup options for essential players are dreadfully worse in quality.

There has to be a major overhaul of the squad and the bar for quality needs raising drastically. As a team the lack of continuity from week to week hasn’t been of the standard required, yet with players such as Mohamed Elneny coming in to play the single pivot Thomas Partey role, what can we really expect?

Such a gulf in class will invariably result in weaker output.

While fine margins once again determined the outcome – said margins are unfortunately essential at present – if Partey had started then there is little reason to suggest Arsenal wouldn’t have won. There are no certainties there, of course, yet rotation is an unfortunate necessity that costs Arsenal in quality.

Until these issues are seen to in the transfer market then the problem will continue to be relevant. All top sides have to rotate their teams. The difference is most don’t replace Thomas Partey with Mohamed Elneny, with this simply being the most recent example of a scenario that plays out across the pitch.