Five points clear at the top of the Premier League, with a game in hand to boot, and a young, exciting squad headed by an increasingly impressive manager. All has to be rosy at Arsenal, right?
It's fair to say, however, that the January window hasn't quite gone as ideally as the league leaders, bidding to win a first domestic title since 2004, would have liked.
Of their top two transfer targets, Mykhailo Mudryk chose Arsenal's London rivals Chelsea over the Gunners, while bids for Brighton's Moises Caicedo have been repeatedly rebuffed.
That has led to the arrivals of Leandro Trossard and Jorginho appearing to be second-choice signings to some, but should that necessarily be the case for two experienced top-flight operators?