As it turns out Chelsea and Shaktar have done us a favour.
Our priority now is a player who can adapt to our team and style of play quickly and help push us over the line for the title and take a crack at a double or treble.
I get the feeling we’re going so well that ending this with just a league title might seem like an underachievement.
As nice as it would’ve been to have a top young talent join our priority isn’t someone who needs to adapt, needs developing and may or may not be able to make a significant contribution to this season.
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Also it won’t have sat well with me that over £20m is going towards funding a war….good or bad side don’t care.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."