They look like us last season (replace Nicolas Jover with Robert Lewandowski). A young team, not so much control but lots of movement and crucially, running. They made their opponents seem old, tired and sluggish; no zip or pep, no ginger, no energy and no new ideas and hardly any goals.
"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."