Thread by @GunnersTown

It's not actually been very bad, has it? Pepe for the exaggerated and unforgivable fee of 72 million has been the worst. Sokratis should have been 6 or 4M less. Torreira and Saliba are just... odd.

We've just been acquiring deadwood players, is the problem.

AN ANALYSIS THREAD.

All of the players we acquired in 2018 have either left or should be leaving soon.

2019: out of 8 1st team players that arrived, 4 have left! Out of the remaining 4, 1 has not even played for us. And Nicolas Pepe, the biggest investment, has been the biggest flop for the price.

2020: Same story. Out of the 9 players that arrived, 3 have already left and 3 will be moved on if an offer for them arrives.

2021 has seen a remarkable turn of recruitment: all of the 5 players invested in are young, capable and very experienced. All 5 should stay in all events

We can basically say that the problem with Arsenal recruitment since the post-Wenger years is that they barely signed any players who can play in the future (either prime age or young and good). Where they signed young and good, they mishandled them. Where they signed prime age,

they mis-identified and overpaid. And then you stack a lot of loan signings on top of that.

The root problem for the recruitment process turning out so bad seems to be the lack of a unified vision behind the scenes about where Arsenal should go, which you can see in the turnover

of management and coaching staff.

This period of chaos behind the scenes at the club has translated into poor player and coaching recruitment.

Stability is needed. Unity is needed. A singular vision is needed at all levels of the club structure. Same goal, same dream.

Some have said that the management problem is the lack of experience. But that is a lazy, easy-to-point-at trope. Raul Sanelhi and Unai Emery were both some of the most experienced staff in Europe. We made most of our mistakes under them.

What is needed is stability and unity.

That stability and unity must translate across all levels such that even when a coach or Edu has to leave, there can be continuity with the type of hires that come in.

You must have an idea of how we want to play, first, then sign players and coaches that fit into that idea.

If a coach or a player fails, everything won't be uprooted if they leave.

Do Arsenal have this as it is?

Yes. But only recently. This is reflected in the significantly better window we have had in terms of recruitment.

This is the infamous 'process': unified approach/vision.

The 'process' will outlast any manager and any staff. Arsenal have only just begun to have a process. It is early stages that is not reflected, for one reason or another, in the results within 3 games. But it is there.

Trust the process, Gunners, we have no other choice.

Hard proof here that there is now a process at the club, a unified vision which we were previously lacking.