Gary Breen

A huge disappointment.

And we can reference how he impacted on the game coming on, but he didn't play any different to how we've seen him play all season.

I know he's got his goals and stuff, and people say that's a steady return.

But the reality is that on this long search for a number nine that Arsenal seem to be doing for two, three seasons, for them to believe that Jokeres is the answer, he just is not of that quality.

And I think the very fact that you referenced it there, the big financial outlay in terms of

bridging the gap in last summer for Arsenal against Manchester City was, okay, get a midfielder who can release Declan Rice to go forward and show all these kind of physical attributes, his athleticism.

They get Zubin Mendy in to do that.

Now find this creative number 10, you know, a maverick style footballer who could open up defences.

They do that and they get Eze and you think, yeah, good signing.

And then you think, all right, they finally found their quintessential number nine.

And yet...

In the Champions League final, none of those players played.

He still reverted back to the tried and trusted Odegaard, Havertz.

I know there was a kind of a different experience with Lewis Skelly coming in there, but that wasn't high design.

They hadn't planned to do that.

That had emerged on the fact that Zubamendi

looked so shattered on the fact of playing in the Premier League his first season with no kind of winter break that he's used to in Spain.

And that just sums it up is that all that money is spent.

And yet when you're playing in the big games, the big deciders, they didn't start.

I mean, we laugh about it in terms of that.