What are we going to do without football for the next couple of months?!
That was a bit of a mad season. I just looked back to the first thread and my hopes were that we'd be pushing City and Liverpool (!) a bit closer, so I think we can say it's been a successful season for us. But the way we ran out of steam after leading for such a long time does make it feel like a disappointment.
I guess now we have the joys of the silly season, where every agent who wants a move/improved contract for their player will link them to Arsenal. They do this because they know Arsenal never comment on transfer speculation, so they can get away with it.
I hope Xhaka doesn't leave, as we're going to need squad depth, but at least he's leaving as a hero rather than it looked at one point.
Arteta needs to get some quality reinforcements to bolster the squad. He also needs to allow himself to trust them and rotate the squad more, so we're more likely to have his favourites available for key games, especially with European competition. I'm glad Reiss Nelson has signed a new contract - I assume he has been given assurances of more game time, as I think he's earned it.
Sources are saying that Rice is a done deal, which I would be happy with. I guess we'll see what happens...