The clamour for signings (which is justified) is also obscuring another major problem with the team.

The overall style needs to urgently change back to fast, counterrattacking football.

Possession play – passing to feet is too static, too slow and too easy to defend against. Possession play is useful at times to probe and keep the ball, but not all the time.
Giroud’s goal resulted from movement and fast passing.

They need to move the ball more quickly, and make more off the ball movements in supporting the ball carrier closely or by drifting into space, and make more forward/diagonal runs - going back to the fast, direct, counterattacking with intelligent movement style, currently used by teams such as Dortmund and the old invincibles style.

We only see this sometimes, for example in the Man City pre-season game, or when we go behind and play more urgently, or when players take risks sometimes in driving the game forward and moving intelligently off the ball.

This problem is as big as the need for transfers, and has been for a long time. Even if we buy flair players, for the most part, barring odd occasions Wenger will get the team to play into this horrible slow Barcelona-lite build up style, and we’ll be hoping for some individuals to break free of it volitionally.