Arsenal will enter the offseason with a host of needs for the squad, but where should the club start?
Arsenal knew at the beginning of this season that reinforcements needed to come in, especially in the attacking third, yet none came in.
Then we fast forward to January, and with Gabriel Jesus, Bukayo Saka, and Gabriel Martinelli all sidelined, it was Kai Havertz or bust. Then the football gods played a cruel trick on Arsenal
Havertz, no less than a day after the transfer window slammed shut, was ruled out for the year.
Yuck.
That meant the Gunners, who at that stage, were in the thick of a title race, were left without the appropriate artillery to go to war with Liverpool, and Arne Slot's team flexed their muscles while the Gunners failed time and time again to gift the title to their rivals.
So, let's look ahead a little bit here, and the summer transfer window looms as perhaps the biggest and most defining of Mikel Arteta's time at the club with no significant investment last offseason or in January, it is expected the Gunners will splurge to improve the squad.
Where should Arsenal's transfer business begin?
Most know what the Gunners need to improve the squad, but where should the club start?
The obvious answer is with a striker.
Alexander Isak, Benjamin Sesko and Viktor Gyokeres are the three names we have heard over the past 12 months as key options for the Gunners to explore, and right now, Isak is seen as the "best" choice for the Gunners.
But with Newcastle flying, and likely playing Champions League football next season, it would take some serious convincing from Arsenal to get the Magpies to part ways with their star.

Sesko and Gyokeres are other, more affordable options, and both offer their own unique traits to any front line they join, with Sesko, the youngest of this trio, and he does have a habit of popping up in big games.
As for Gyokeres, he is the most prolific of these targets and has been targeted by Arsenal for what feels like forever.
But then we have the wingers.
Saka and Martinelli need help and behind them, there isn't too much to get excited about.
Leroy Sane is a free agent at the end of the year, so he looms as an option, while others in Matheus Cunha and Nico Williams have seen their names linked with the Gunners for the past year.
There are multiple options for the Gunners to address two of their most problematic positions in the summer, but we pose a significant question that will take some time to answer.
Where does the club start?