It's just the optimist in me mate. I seriously think every decision we made this January to an extent is the correct one.
- We really wanted Perisic but Inter didn't budge, even after he handed in a transfer request. I am so surprised they didn't let him go and I am sure Raul is as well. They are now stuck with an even more de-motivated player and we were the only chance they'd ever get £35 million for him since we offered to agree to it but with an option, they won't get near that next summer.
- We didn't really want Carrasco which is why we offered so little for him and as David said didn't push for him, we could of got him imo but I think he was there to try and get Inter to budge on Perisic.
- Suarez, perfect deal and went exactly to plan. We didn't budge, they eventually did, signed him up to a new contract to save value and let him join us with the option, if we say no at the end someone else will pay that. He's also a good player and may easily be worth more than his current value at the end of this season, win win for Arsenal.
- Nkunku was more down to PSG it seems, didn't get replacements in time and couldn't agree a new contract with him which meant it was much harder for us.
I do believe the club has clear targets in mind for summer which is why we didn't budge at all this winter on these targets.
Our terrible business before the 'new' era meant this winter was super difficult but I think we did as much as we could.
TL;DR: We have plans for summer and stood our ground this winter for the future benefit of the club.
Agree with most of this. we have 2 main problems in this squad, A lack of decent defenders and no options in the squad to provide any witdh outside of our full backs....which further adds to our defensive problems. They have gone into the market to address the winger issue, so im happy they have identified and acted on this. We will move for a defender at some point, But that needs more work as we currently have 2 many CB's we need to clear some down. Also gives the boss a few months to look at our little greek kid.
Maybe the club will think the Chambers, Holding and Mav could be the answer, Maybe they will decide some of them need to leave. Lets just get through this campaign do as well as we can, Then give the club a summer to recruit and emery a full pre season with the squad.