Five reasons Arteta has already answered £65m Kroenke January transfer question

The fact that Nketiah had such a small part - he played less than 1,100 minutes but featured in 30 games - is an ode to how the squad worked together. Toward the end of the season in the period that the club tailed off it wasn't for the lack of goals but the poor defensive errors that ultimately cost the title.

This is part of the reason Arteta has chosen control over chaos but if Arsenal can harness some of the explosive attacking play then it might just change January around. Already this term they are on course to have three players hit double figures in the league at least with the chance that it becomes four again should individual form pick up.

Unlike Manchester City - who had just two getting ten or more, granted one was Erling Haaland with 36 - Arsenal continue to share the goals. At City again it is Haaland and a supporting cast.

For Stan Kroenke, Josh Kroenke, Arteta and Edu Gaspar this poses an interesting dilemma. The Gunners have long been linked with a move for an out-and-out No.9 over the winter with Jesus' fitness problems remaining and Gabriel Martinelli failing to ignite domestically.

With the Champions League knockout demands and the knowledge of just how testing, both physically and mentally, a title run-in can be, Arteta may well be looking at the winter window with the aims of bringing someone new in to bolster his options. This would give him four players - plus Trossard and Martinelli who played there at times last year - able to be centre forward, at least one too many you suspect.

Depending on what the future holds for Kai Havertz and his most likely consistent role in the team questions will remain over this. If he isn't a long or even short-term option as a striker, then Arteta really only has two players plus potential January reinforcement with Nketiah far from proven against the top six and Jesus a constant flight risk it is a balancing act.

On the one hand Arteta and his squad have just shown how they can work together in an ideal situation, but it is also the first time this term that things have clicked quite like that in that way. 

Considering Toney, as the most likely arrival, would cost more than the entire January spend last year - reports suggest £65million ($82m) will be enough but Brentford continue to quote closer to £100million ($124m) publicly - it isn't a deal that the club will take lightly.

However, if the five-man attacking dynamic is either not here to stay or cannot replicate the goods domestically then Arteta will be forced to dip into the market for a point of difference player, someone that can win games when the game isn't there to be won or the performance doesn't warrant it.

This is the type of match that Arsenal have shown they are capable of snatching points from more and more over the last 12 months but with Liverpool and Manchester City now in pursuit of glory in May, the demands are higher and the margins smaller. 

Whether Arsenal shape this with one player or opt for the same but improved and more experienced and from last term may well define the season. Either way, Arteta has shown just what can be done when he turns the heat up.