Finally, Arsenal are back in business!

Arsenal Football Club prides itself with winning trophies while playing an attractive brand of football. However, seven years have gone by without a silverware. Failure as we know breeds dissatisfaction and frustration and these are in full effects at Arsenal. Football experts, analysts, journalist and indeed everybody(including those who know next to nothing about football) have all had something to say about Arsenal.

Arsenal's transfer policy has been seen as a major factor hindering the clubs challenge for silverware. Arsene Wenger's policy of buying relatively unknown and unproven players have often been criticised. Almost every summer, Arsenal have consistently lost their star players to richer clubs, yet, they often fail to replace these players with established performers instead sticking to youth.
Summer transfer windows have turned into the most frustrating periods for an average Arsenal fan. They get linked with established, exciting players yet end up buying unknown, cheap and inexperienced players. The fans often looked to a new season without a genuine sense of excitement or hope of winning a major trophy.

This summer however, has a different feel to it. Arsenal have so far conducted most of their transfer dealings early which sharply contradicts what happened last summer where they bought 5 players on the transfer closing deadline. Also unlike other summers, Arsenal have gone for experienced and proven performers who have achieved on the big stage. The summer acquisition of Lukas Podolski, Olivier Giroud and Santi Cazorla shows that indeed Arsenal are serious about ending this embarrassing trophy drought. In Lukas Podolski, you have a player with 100 caps for Germany and a proven goal scorer in the bundesliga. Santi Cazorla who argueably is Malaga's best player and a world cup winner with Spain. Olivier Giroud was one of the top scorers in Ligue 1 last season and also won the Ligue 1 title with Montpellier.

There are enough signs already to show that Arsenal are not yet finished with transfer acquisitions. Arsenal are in advanced negotiations to secure the signature of Youngster M'Baye Niang from Caen and Nuri Sahin(on loan) from Real Madrid. On the whole, it's already been an exciting summer for the Arsenal faithfuls. For the first time in as many summers, Arsenal players and fans alike can genuinely look forward to the new season with hope of ending the clubs trophy drought. This is the least we deserve.
I can confidently then say that "Finally, Arsenal are back in business".

Written by: Wisdom Udoh
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