It seems far more than just a few months ago, but I know that it was just a few months for I have just checked the calendar and the record books. Arsenal won eight and drew two of the last ten games that they played in the 2012/13 season.

That is a good run by any standards, and in fact it is possible to extend the sequence back further by saying that Arsenal only lost one match in the last 16 league games of last season.

Or if you think that this is being artificial and we should include cup games as well as league games then Arsenal were undefeated in their last 11 league and cup games of the season. Nine wins, two draws.

Whichever way you play it, the numbers sound quite good.

So let’s add in this season’s two league and two cup games – one defeat and three wins.

That gives us 12 wins, two draws and one defeat in the last 15 league and cup games. Or taking it another way two defeats in the last 18 league games.

It really doesn’t matter how you do the analysis, Arsenal are doing well. So why isn’t everyone jumping for joy?

There is no doubt that there are a number of people who talk about Arsenal on blogs and in newspapers, who will always look for the negative in relation to Arsenal. It doesn’t really matter too much what Arsenal do or how they do it, they will find that something wrong.

So while Arsenal have, in the last 15 years, had a run of success in terms of competitions won, and the security of a regular place in the top four in the league, which in the past was just a dream, that notion is ignored. We don’t look at the last 15 years. We are brow-beaten into looking at the last eight years only.

The question is endlessly put, “when was the last time Arsenal went for eight years without a trophy?” (the answer was in the period up to Bertie Mee’s arrival). The question, “when have we ever had a run as successful in terms of trophies won and top four finishes as the last 15 years?” is never put. (The answer is none. The triumphs of the Chapman built team lasted nine years).

In other words, everything depends on how you phrase the question. Ask a question about runs without defeats and the current run of two in 18 is up there with the best of them – leaving aside of course the single unprecedented and unrepeatable (by anyone) unbeaten season.

So the issue has to be changed. Arsenal has hardly got any players, everyone is injured, Arsenal are useless, you are just playing with statistics. But no I am not, I am quoting facts.

Yes there are injuries, but there are also some interesting players edging their way forwards.

Sonogo for example is clearly going to take a while to get going, but then so did Theirry Henry. The anti-Wengerians will laughingly turn that statement into one that suggests that I am saying that Sonogo is Henry II. But of course I am not, I am merely observing that players take a while to come through. Henry certainly did, as anyone who saw Season I will attest.

We’ve got Frimpong sitting on the bench. I’ve no idea how good he is, but before his injuries he was looking a strong and determined player who could take on the centre of midfield. We’ve seen Ryo on the pitch, and he looked much stronger in his time on as a substitute on Tuesday night, than he did on tour.

The long and the short of it all is that each and every time Arsenal have an injury there are people saying that everything has now fallen apart. Arsenal are stupid and won’t sign anyone, or deliberately hold on until the last second, just like last season.

Except actually it wasn’t like that last season. Not at all. We signed Podolski on 30 April, Giroud on 26 June, Cazorla on 6 August, and only one player – Dejan Iliev – on the last day of the transfer window. In all if you include Monreal signed in the winter window the spending was around £50m.

Which then raises the question, “what is all this about ‘Spend some ****ing money’?” Arsenal spent £50m last season.

So why hasn’t the spending continued this transfer window? Again I have no idea, but I do know that if Arsenal were to buy a player for (for example) £40m, who then turned out to be not as good as we hoped, or to have a temperament or personality problem, or who got injured in week two, then Arsenal would be criticised again.

No one ever gets all the transfers right – even in the days before Chelsea and Manchester City, when dealing in the transfer window was a lot easier. Except that the collection of players we bought last year (apart from Dejan Iliev of whom I know nothing) everyone looks good to me.

My view, and of course it is nothing other than my view, is that there is a different game in town. It is a game of putting together a great squad in the face of the predatory powers of PSG, Monaco, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Man City, all of whom are perfectly capable of wrecking any transfer that Arsenal get interested in, just by saying “we’ll give you more.” They might not have any interest in the player, but they wreck the situation, just for the hell of it.

Which is why, if you look back, there was hardly a snifter of any of the players coming to us before they got here, last season. And when you consider that one of those players is a brilliant member of the Spanish national team, and one of the great talents of football at the moment, and we got him for something around £16.5m, that is quite remarkable.

Santi Cazorla – goodness how much he is really worth on the market (at today’s prices I would say around £35m), but we managed to pick him up for a snip. So in the simplistic way that these things are viewed by some supporters, he’s not a top ranking player.

Based on last season’s transfers, we are at the very top of the league. No one did as well as we did over the course of spending £50m.

Of course I would like to win the double again. Of course I would like to go unbeaten all season. Of course I would like to win any of the four competitions we are in – and I hope we do. But that’s not the real game. The real point is that we are holding on in a league that is financially totally out of kilter, and that is amazing. When finally, ultimately, the Premier League and Uefa get their financial fair play acts together, we will have such an advantage the rest of the league will wonder how we did it.

We are on a brilliant run. We did superbly well in the transfer window last season. But for some reason neither the press, nor the bloggers, nor a few of the people in the ground, will see it.