It's All Over At The Sponsored Named Stadium

And the window ... slams shut! With it went the warm summer air. The brutal winter that will face a club whose future was determined by Mikel Arteta. After close to two decades of football genius that is has for the past five years been bordering on decadence - Arsene Wenger panicked, read the headlines and got it all horribly wrong.

Despite the clamour for a new defence and a new way of playing - Wenger chose to spend the days reflecting on the very worst of humiliations at Old Trafford by chasing a pipe dream. Trying to uncover more players that would be forever testament to his legacy of turning relatively cheap buys into full on superstars. Arsene Wenger in the transfer market is a lost soul.

You will very unusually see a well-dressed professor, artist or scientist and Wenger falls very much into that camp. Not the long jacket this time - just an outdated perception that football will never be controlled by money.

Sometimes the obvious is just the right thing to do. Wenger has taken in close to £70 million in this window and needed to reinvest £100 million to get it right. It is no computer game mentality or fanciful monopoly game to suggest Phil Jagielka and Gary Cahill would have made a £30million dent and made his defensive headaches go-away.  Lets be fair, if that had happened their would be few ready to question the forward flair.

Instead Wenger went cheap. He went after somebody in Mikel Arteta that has seen his best years go by. There is a very good chance that the Spaniard will enjoy some success. A player who at his best, and that has not been seen for a few years, was regarded as Fabregas-lite will not fill the void and allow Arsenal to challenge. It is bordering in the bizarre that Wenger could watch any recent film on the Spaniard and conclude that he would play in any of Europe's elite teams.  Perhaps it is a moment of realisation that it is keeping Spurs and Everton at bay has become the real priority - the signing a former Liverpool and Chelsea midfielder player in Yossi Benayoun would back this up.

Per Mertesacker is a Germany international who, for all the gushing words about the amount of caps and World Cup experience, seemed to slip under the radar of Bayern Munich during a summer when a defensive overhaul was Bayern's focus.

Quite simply Arsene Wenger used to see things that others could not ... now he just thinks he does and woods and the trees have become spectacularly blurred .