Last week Arsenal completed the loan signing of Denis Suarez from Barcelona and if I could summarise the reaction, I would use the word ‘whelmed.’ Through the scientific measure of gut feeling, I have observed a general cooling in temperature between football fans and the transfer window, which once seemed to be more significant than the football itself. The studied reaction to the Suarez signing was interesting, to me at least, because it felt very contemporary. The player’s profile is not significant enough to cause an Özil or Sanchez type frisson in the Gunners fan base, but as a Barcelona player, he hardly represents a mystical unknown. Coverage of Barcelona is plentiful enough...
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