Or, will they have moments of great promise followed by periods in rehabilitation and then cycles of struggling to find full match fitness? If so, the knock-on for the rest of this squad will again be too much. Two more signings are sought at striker and centre-back and it will be fascinating now to see how Wenger approaches the rest of the transfer window. He has called some of the spending around him “scary” but has he also not seen things like the £40 million profit that Napoli made on Gonzalo Higuain – a player he thought overpriced at £35 million in 2013 – and questioned whether his valuations are a little conservative? The bid earlier this summer for Jamie Vardy suggested that Wenger was prepared to operate more in the here and now but he has since seemed to recoil. His future may depend on a willingness to gamble over these next three weeks.