There are several questions which the Arsenal top brass need to be asking themselves.
If Mikel Arteta is given the right resources, can he lead the club back to the top? How much of the underperformance is down to the quality of the squad? And how much is down to Arteta?
Arsenal are at a crossroads. Their squad has enough quality to finish higher than ninth in the Premier League table. But I don’t think it is good enough to take Arsenal back to where they once were.
In Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the club have two top-class strikers.