“I think Mudryk is a project. There is a player in Mudryk, and he is improving and he is getting better, and Chelsea will hopefully get the best of him. I thought they pivoted and thought.

‘Look, we haven’t got the player we want that we could ease into the squad, but we will go with Trossard, who can come in and do a job off the bench. And I don’t think even the people here at Arsenal, I think they are surprised at well he has done.

‘I watched him play, he is a top player, but I didn’t see him have the effect he has done. So, fair play to him. He has been brilliant.”