You are talking to Arsenal newbs here.
It is a rite of passage for Arsenal fans to massively overrate their players every time they go on a 4-5 match winning streak.
This is the same lot that wanted to bin everyone including Arteta (bar Saka) 12 months back. Given their fixture list, I have a suspicion that we will see the classic Arsenal is shit and doomed from their fan base in a month.
What a difference three weeks makes. A few weeks ago, many on the CAF had a doom and gloom look about Utd. But the turnaround has been fantastic and well deserved. And now the CAF is talking about the title once again in light of Liverpool and City drawing/losing games they shouldn't.
but yes, it's the Arsenal (newbie) Fans who are waxing lyrical after a 4-5 match winning streak (cos hey, let's discount the first half of this year's performance).
Back to Saka, it wasn't just those 4-5 games, of which he didn't perform his best.
Since he regularly made the first team, Saka at times carried the Arsenal team when all the deadwood was still around. It's not just recency bias. Without him, Arsenal could very well have fallen into the bottom half in those 8th place finishes.
He's been in the first team for more than two years now and that's the reason why there are others in this thread saying why City/Pool want him, because he is that good a talent. And being young enough (ah sweet 21), the hope, though it may or may not be fulfilled, is that he has much more development and growth.