Since taking the manager's job almost six years ago, Mikel Arteta has got a lot right at Arsenal.
The Spaniard has taken a team that felt destined to fall further down the Premier League table and turned them into serious challengers.
Moreover, in addition to overhauling the culture at the club, he also completely revamped the squad, getting more transfers right than wrong.
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However, as with all managers, he has also made his share of mistakes in the market, and one of his more recent ones feels like the sort of signing Unai Emery would've made.
Emery vs Arteta in the transfer market
During his short 18-month reign at Arsenal, Emery signed just 12 players, with two of those being on loan and one being a free.
Unfortunately, while the likes of William Saliba and Gabriel Martinelli were unquestionably hits, every other signing is either up for debate or an outright flop.
Worse yet, the Spaniard broke the club's transfer record in his second summer, bringing in Nicolas Pepe from LOSC Lille for a whopping £72m.
The Ivorian would eventually leave the North Londoners by mutual consent, having racked up a middling tally of 27 goals and 21 assists in 112 games for the club.
Other flops signed during that period include Lucas Torreira, Denis Suarez, Stephan Lichtsteiner and Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Aston Villa manager Unai Emery
Overall, while he did bring in two huge hits and a couple of players on the cusp of being hits, it would be fair to say that Emery didn't have a great track record when it came to signing players at Arsenal, but what about Arteta?
Well, the former captain has been at the Emirates for far longer, so there are far more players to judge him on, and overall, you'd have to say he's been more successful than his predecessor.
Unai Emery's most expensive Arsenal signings (timeless)
Yes, there have, of course, been plenty of flops such as Fabio Vieira, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Pablo Mari, Raheem Sterling and Willian, but there have been significantly more hits.
For example, Declan Rice, Jurrien Timber, Riccardo Calafiori, David Raya, Ben White, Gabriel Magalhães and Leandro Trossard are just some of the players who arguably get into almost every other team in the league.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta
Would Emery have eventually got better at identifying targets if he had been given more time and given in excess of £900m? Possibly, but we'll never know.
With that said, one of the manager's recent signings might be heading for the flop pile and feels like someone the club would have bought under the previous regime.
The Arteta signing who looks like he belongs in the Emery era
So far, most of Arsenal's summer signings have looked good to great this season.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta celebrates after Bukayo Saka scores their second goal
Martin Zubimendi has been pulling the strings from deep, Eberechi Eze got his North London Derby hat-trick, and Noni Madueke has been the most direct attacker in the team.
However, there is one player who arrived to plenty of fanfare, but has so far underwhelmed: Viktor Gyokeres.
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Many fans and pundits alike saw the Swede as the goalscoring number nine that the Gunners had been crying out for, but so far, he has looked unconvincing, to say the least.
For example, in 18 appearances, the former Sporting CP "powerhouse" forward, as dubbed by analyst Ben Mattinson, has scored just six goals, and while that is not terrible, it's not enough from a £63m striker.
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Moreover, unlike Gabriel Jesus, or even Kai Havertz for that matter, the former Coventry City star doesn't offer an awful lot off the ball, nor is he adept at helping craft chances.
In fact, this was something Sky Sports' Gary Neville picked up on earlier in the season when he called him a "misfit" because, unlike a lot of his teammates, "he's not technically amazing."
Gyokeres vs Brugge
This dual problem of not getting into goalscoring areas enough and also offering little in build-up play was on show against Brugge, when in 62 minutes of action, he failed to get in on the actiona, took just 12 touches and played four passes.
With all that said, there is clearly a player in there - we saw it for that brilliant goal against Leeds United earlier in the season - but if he doesn't improve quickly, it feels like a matter of when and not if he falls to third in the pecking order.
Therefore, while it might sound harsh, Gyokeres is looking more like a signing Arsenal would have made under Emery than Arteta.
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