It would be fair to say the mood amongst Arsenal supporters is frosty. The energy has turned very sour and is being directed toward the club in the wake of Kai Havertz’s reported season-ending injury.

Arsenal failed to bring in a single player during the January transfer window and the only forward they signed in the summer after selling Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe while also loaning out Reiss Nelson and Fabio Vieira was Raheem Sterling on loan. Without a doubt, not bringing anybody in during the winter window was a colossal failure, one which requires further internal scrutiny.

It worries me that we have seen reports from the Mail suggesting that interim sporting director Jason Ayto has impressed those at the club with his considered approach. While there is an element of hindsight being 20/20, Mikel Arteta has hardly been quiet when it comes to public comments of how short his side are up top and the desire to sign a forward player.

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It was on those behind/above Arteta to deliver the manager what he needed; what he asked for. We saw players move on loan deals, such as Randal Kolo Muani, Alvaro Morata and Andre Silva, but the club instead decided against mirroring or hijacking such moves themselves.

Yet Arteta is still catching plenty of heat. Of course, there are always going to be the 'manager out' critics who have never wanted the Spaniard near the club since he arrived, using any little morsel as a stick to beat him with.

Furthermore, in the hours after the news, it is when we typically see the most hyperbolic of reactions as the information does not get the chance to marinate. Ultimately, barring Arteta commissioning a plane like some of his predecessor Arsene Wenger's own 'outers' and flown it above the Emirates with a message emblazoned, 'We are short. We need to sign a forward!' What more could Arteta have done?

The failure lands at the feet of those whose job it is to deliver the manager to tools to succeed. It seems one angle has been the number of minutes Arteta has ‘ran his players into the ground with’.

While I think there is an argument that Arteta could take some of his key starters off earlier in games, the best players start for their clubs. Martinelli has had plenty of rotation this season and still suffered a hamstring problem.

Gabriel Jesus suffered a knee injury from an innocuous-looking challenge, not even the same knee he needed fixing after the World Cup. Bukayo Saka has played a lot of football, but he suffered, just like Kai Havertz reportedly has, one of the worst hamstring injuries a player can get.

There is always a desire to point fingers: Arteta becomes a target, certainly more than most. But had Arteta not played Saka or Havertz in certain games and instead Arsenal dropped points and were out of the Champions League, or further down the Premier League table than their current second-place standing, then he most certainly would be in the firing line all the same.

Arsenal's injuries are a result of horrendous misfortune combined with a fixture schedule, which for clubs in the Gunners' position simply can no longer be justified. That said, if you look at clubs in Arsenal's position, I personally cannot recall a single one losing both centre-forwards, their star attacker and starting winger for injuries of this magnitude at this stage of the season.