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The Premier League is over.
Now we gear up mentally for a huge game in Europa world.
Arsenal vs Chelsea. It’s going to be a great match. Sarri has never won a trophy before, Emery has to win this to make his gamble in the league look a smart one. It’s a total toss of a coin.
There’s been a lot of debate about the host city. I think some of the outrage has been misplaced. I reckon Baku will be a memorable away day, I think the upset from most fans is coming from 1) The unreal expense of traveling there 2) The fact UEFA picked a final destination where there are questions over a players participation because of safety. Very grim.
I mean, I’m not going to fall on my sword for Mikhi, because be real, who fucking cares if he plays, however, because I love bitching… this all of a sudden becomes an outrage I want to be part of.
That said, how critical can western Europe be? In Spain, we can’t guarantee black players won’t get abuse, for, you know, being black. A Spurs fan threw a banana at one of our players a few months ago. A fan ran on the pitch in the Birmingham Derby and punched a player (terrible punch). Someone threw a bottle at me in The Tollington because I’m a great blogger. I HAVE SEEN FLARES AT GAMES. We had a left-back that took a knuckle duster to Shite Hart Lane. I mean, here’s my point, at the end of the day, we’re all awful in our own way. Amirite?
Contract news is interesting.
Arsenal want to offer Auba and Lacazette £250k a week extensions to their deals.
We’re apparently gearing up a £75k a week offer for the second most valuable teenager in Europe (MATTEEEOOOO!)
I mean, money doesn’t seem short, does it? Also reads like the story about KSE having budget communication issues were a little off.
All this lends credence to my accurate reporting on Aaron Ramsey… they pulled the deal because Emery didn’t fancy him. It seems silly now, but if we sign an exceptional talent to replace him, we’ll be rolling in LOLz.
In other news, Emery seems to be talking up the idea that we’re going to go young next season.
‘We need to use young players like Ramsey who played here when he was young. Every player can take chances and use these chances to improve with us,’
‘Willock and Nketiah played the 90 minutes, they used this time to help us with a good match. It’s our responsibility to give them chances but find the best performance as a team. ‘Young players need opportunities to be with us in training.’
There are a lot of people bitching about us moving into another Project Youth era, but to those people, I slap you with the wet side of a leather glove and dare you step up from the floor. If the youth is where we’re heading, I am all for that. Arsenal needs to be really fucking real about who they are this summer. We need a strategy. We can’t continue down the path of overpaying for ‘ok’ players in the hope they might come good. Our risks shouldn’t be Mikhi on £170k a week, they should be Djene Dakonam, Nicolas Pepe, Ibrahima Konaté, Ndombele, Aouar or Sarr… on £12 a week. Amirite?
Yeah I am.
Bollocks to the kids and their dreams of a 4 bedroom house at 16 on a minimum wage. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD SNOWFLAKES. Fuck me Corbyn, £10 an hour for a teenager? I worked in Maccy Ds for £3.12 an hour. I knew what the secret recipe for the Big Mac sauce was because it stained my skin indelibly like a 10 euro Ayia Napa henna tattoo. I wore that scent like it was CK1. Remember when that was the fragrance in 1998? Was I fired from McDonald’s? Yes. Did Barry who was certainly a sex offender have more stars than me? Yes again. Fuck him though, he’s still rocking the bookshop in a Kindle world while I’m out here writing for men I occasionally meet on the internet.
Anyway, we should be tracking the best young talent in Europe that has 1-2 years left on their deals, give them a London pay bump, bonus the fuck out of them so they are motivated, house them outdoors so they get nature wild, and see where we land.
If we can buy in players with one or two good seasons under their belts and give them a proper platform to thrive, we’ll be in a really great place.
See, I’d love to sign someone like Zaha. People laughed when we wrote about him years ago, but the guy has grown into quite the player since he tanked at United after he was allegedly busted for dealing with the daughter of his ex-manager (who didn’t hear that rumour, right?). However, is he going to offer us the sort of value we’re looking for if he’s a £70m player? Tough to see that. If we could get him for £50m, maybe it’s a different story.
Arsenal has to focus this summer on power and pace. We’re going to have to move on Elneny and Xhaka. Our squad can’t deal with that sort of weakness in the middle of the park. We need to have players in our midfield that explode over 10 yards, players that are nasty, players that have engines in the mould of Aaron Ramsey. They also have to be able to maintain fitness for longer than 2 months (sorry Aaron).
I tell you what I WILL NOT tolerate this summer.
Banega. Nzonzi. Anyone that smells like Sevilla or journeyman. OR BARRY NEAR THE PARK. I see you book boy.
Let’s see what lands, what we’ve done so far has been really fucking bland because no thought went into it. We’ve racked up a collection of ‘ok’ over 5 years and somehow managed to land at a £235m wage bill.
Our decisions have to get better. The only way to get to better decisions is to have a sharp strategy in place. We need a sexy vision. We need a better footballing philosophy. We need to start shaping the club properly.
Let’s hope we win that Champions League spot. Looks more and more important as each day passes.
OH MY BEFORE WE GO. NYT reporting City could be landing the only sort of fine they can’t afford, a big whack at their prestige. UEFA are considering whipping their cajones on the table and banning City from the Champions League for being BAD PEOPLE.
As football fans, we tend to ignore how money arrived at these clubs, providing it’s being spent on elite talent. City are the first side that are so good, it looks almost robotic. The money in the hands of their execs is being spent so well, it’s going to make it very tough for anyone to break in… I mean, a bit dramatic, I doubt they can maintain a stranglehold as tight as United or Liverpool did back in the day, but regardless, they are breaking the rules to dope their team. It has to stop. Fines won’t work, but taking them out of the big trophy might.
… then they can give that Champions League place to Unai Emery. No Europa necessary. Well, that’s how I think it should work.
BIG DECISION.
See you in the comments. x
True Gambon, but the contract should be incentive based with an option to increase his pay by £10k at the end of the season based on performance and not his rating.
There are better players at his age, Arsenal is the platform that has got him noticed and he still has to develop consistency, so it doesn’t make sense to offer him that much money now.
We don’t need to create a new Adrien Rabiot. He should keep his head down and work harder. He already earns more than enough already.
Chambers should be sold. He’s not ever going to be good enough for us and he’s actually someone who could bring in some decent money for us. Sell him and move on. Or offer him to Fulham in part exchange for Sessegnon
Marko
We’ve made huge mistakes in the past with contracts, so I hope things are changing.
With Guendouzi, I think people forget his age.
Chris Willock played about 60 minutes of PL football all season. At the same age, Guendouzi played 48 games.
You wont find many 19 year olds that played 48 times for a top 6 PL club.
He came in on a 4 year deal, as younger players often do, and hopefully we’ll get him on a 5 year deal, which means he’ll be tied down til 2024 rather than 2022.
One things for sure we can’t sit on our hands this summer we need to be proactive and aggressive in our approach to targets because there’s going to be a fuck load of clubs that are going to be busy a lot of them shopping for the same kind of players that we’d be looking for and some of them with far more resources than us. I’m hoping that we’ve already got a couple set up already. And I’m not talking about Martinelli
Definitely dont agree with giving Chambers another shot. He’s never shown the ability to play for Arsenal, and after a fairly good loan spell, its time to move him on and cash in. He’s too slow to play as a CB in the modern game, and no top club would have such a limited player in central midfield. Bielik is a hard one to judge, because we got his loan completely wrong. He is far too good for league one, so we dont really know how good he is. I think we will sell both, but would say Bielik has… Read more »
Marko – Chambers should be sold if other team offering crazy money for him but I think he is useful player to have on our squad. Chambers has performed adequately in premier league while out on loan, he has value, and would allow Arsenal to spend more money replacing our midfielders.
If Bielek was just any other league 1 player would people be calling for us to sign him?
“If Bielek was just any other league 1 player would people be calling for us to sign him?”
Signing any player from league one is a questionable idea.
However he really did dominate at that level.
Its more a case of what could he have done in the Championship or Premier League.
Again, doesnt have the pace to recover from mistakes as a CB, so I think he will go to a lower PL, Championship or Bundesliga club.
Last game has demonstrated that if we play a flat 4 with 3 midfielders, Elneny is much better than Xhaka as DM. He’ll need two other midfielders to push the ball forward. I’ll keep Elneny as squad player and trade Xhaka, who is not suitable to play in the EPL. Iwobi has also shown that if he continues to develop this Sanchez like crosses to the strikers, He could become an effective winger after all. This would eliminate the need to keep Kola. With the limited funding available, my priority would be 1. A box to box midfielder to replace… Read more »
You wont find many 19 year olds that played 48 times for a top 6 PL club. Yeah he probably shouldn’t have been playing that much if we’re honest. We’re a bit of a mess that’s the only reason he’s played so much. I still think it’s a risk that doesn’t need to be taken just now. You give him 75,000 a week what if he gets the money and bad habits start to set in or he takes the foot off the gas if you know what I mean. I don’t think he’d do that because he seems like… Read more »
i just seen Rafinha from Bayern will be available this summer
i think he be a decent back up for right back for us
i dont know if he will be free transfer
also what you lot think about draxler, we always been linked with him and it seems PSG willing to let him go
I love Zaha
Same!
Elneny is gone, no point debating it.
Stated about 6 games all season. Emery doesnt trust him.
Im not a huge Xhaka fan, but hes twice the player Elneny is.
Elneny doesnt really do anything. No defensive workrate, doesnt pass forward, doesnt create anything, doesnt score.
Sell and replace with a physical central MF
I think another manager will have played Willock more. He played the Europa League games in Wenger’s final season and he was ok. For the U-23’s he has been good. Emery’s persistence with Guendouzi is not just talent, he had his personal plans for the squad in my opinion. Lucas Moura was overlooked by Emery because he had Angel DiMaria and Julian Draxler while in PSG before the additions of Neymar and Mbappe, but guess who got Spuds into the UCL final? Everyone thought Son was going to be the star of the show, but Moura made the difference. A… Read more »
Chambers has performed adequately in premier league while out on loan, he has value, and would allow Arsenal to spend more money replacing our midfielders. I assume that you’re talking about him as a backup. I totally don’t agree with that he should be nowhere near ever playing as a CB for us again. And by selling him you’re talking about having more money towards bringing in someone in some other key area. We’re not remotely improving the squad this summer by keeping on clearly sellable assets for the purpose of having them as a backup. Enough is enough sell… Read more »
“Lucas Moura was overlooked by Emery because he had Angel DiMaria and Julian Draxler while in PSG before the additions of Neymar and Mbappe, but guess who got Spuds into the UCL final? Everyone thought Son was going to be the star of the show, but Moura made the difference.
Blaming Emery now for Lucas Moura the Brazilian Walcott?
I agree with Marko, Chambers should be sold if we really want to achieve much. We can attach a buyback clause if necessary, but being a star at Fulham doesn’t translate to carrying a midfield such as Arsenal which has seen great players control its midfield play in the past.
Azed
Go figure, he scored a hat trick against everyone’s expectation in a champion’s league final.
Apart from being better than the real Walcott, he’s better than Iwobi and Mhkitaryan on this season’s stats. That is if you add the contributions of both players, so why not mention him? even TW14 was special when he had Fabregas releasing him.
I meant to type semi final.
“Go figure, he scored a hat trick against everyone’s expectation in a champion’s league final.”
your against everyone’s expectations line kind of undermines your point
Gambon said it best earlier in the day, get in starters and move current starters to the bench.
We also need to get players that can allow us to play with a back 4 and a midfield 3 so we can alternate between 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3
We could be in for Draxler. I personally wouldn’t. My absolute dream signing for us this summer and it’s one that is so doable (for a lot of teams) would be Brandt. He’d be huge.
Also criticizing Emery for Moura is ridiculous when you consider they binned him for Mbappe. If you want to criticize anyone criticize Wenger for not trying to sign up Lucas from PSG
“Apart from being better than the real Walcott, he’s better than Iwobi and Mhkitaryan on this season’s stats.”
Your point being we should have signed him? Cos i am kind of wondering where the Moura talk is coming from, he scored a hat-trick for his team good for him.
Lari
There’s no manager on this earth and in space that would play Lucas Moura over Di Maria.
Draxler is a no for me too. Not the right profile of player we should be after
Draxler another weak arse inury prone. No thanks
It’s never really happened for Draxler has it. Been highly rated for years now but he just can’t seem to stay fit or hold down a starting place. Probably suffers a bit from not knowing exactly where he fits in. Is he a CAM a CM a LW? Don’t think it matters anymore
Apparently Real Madrid looking at Auba for £80m Pedro.
Suspect that £75k a week will look value for money. No doubt we’ll put an option to extend it by one year.
He feels rich now and valued… then when he’s worth £100m, we have him looking like a cheap deal.
Whether he deserved so many minutes is irrelevant, he largely held his own and he’s the second most valuable teenager in world football.
You tie that down.
I would not be opposed to seeling Torreira for a big fee. We need to upgrade the midfield. He is a good player, but one who can be replaced
Our transfer strategy should be two-fold this summer for me: 1) get shot of guys offering nothing (Elneny, Chambers, Ospina, Jenks, Mavro*) 2) Replace a couple of guys retuning little for their wages (Ozil, Mkhi, Mustafi*) Our high and low-end is polarising, we have high paid guys offering very little, and lower paid guys offering absolutely nothing. That’s a nightmare. Punt the dross and promote some yoof, then whore a few high earners and replace with functional and driven players. Personally I’d like the squad to be better next season vs this clamouring for glitter (not Gary). That’s down the… Read more »
My point being that Emery has flaws. Which he could correct over a longer period of 3 to 4 years in one place. This is in terms of achieving consistency. Emery’s human and he makes judgment errors once in a while, it doesn’t undermine his ability but he does make errors when he overthinks things. PSG players before losing to Barcelona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUBsI01Q7E Draxler’s response after a similar thing happened the next year against Real Madrid https://www.goal.com/en/news/angry-draxler-slams-psg-boss-emery-after-champions-league/no10wo4opfmn1vzsakoq98geq The Moura criticism of Emery is just one of the reasons why we need a sporting director. Secondly, this is what I think made… Read more »
Torreira is by far our best CM. He’s likely to get better and better next season. No way you sell him he’s the only fucker who knows how to tackle in our midfield
My must buys
A top class CB( doesn’t have to be a big name, just someone that wants to defend)
An athletic b2b midfielder
A winger that can beat his man in 1v1
A left back so we can play a back 4.
After that an money generated from player sales should go into a second CB
what i like about Matty G is every other team players hate him
he has the character and winds other teams up
we need more like that
Of course if money is available, we should upgrade the DM position. I am compare trading Elneny or Xhaka – Xhaka is twice the player Elneny is, but only in a slower league. In EPL, Xhaka is much more error prone. – Xhaka can get you 20m when trading to another league and Elneny may get you 5m. – I don’t agree Xhaka has higher defensive work rate than Elneny. Elneny can run all day long. Xhaka used to be so absent minded and is not aware of the defensive situation. Agree that Xhaka is superior in his long pass,… Read more »
If a CL contender offered 50m plus for Torreira, would you sell?
Forget about selling Torreira, even Xhaka is going to survive this summer.
Dream 10 to upgrade the midfield it’s absolutely job no 1 that we
move Ozil on no matter what the cost.
Ozil is not built for the modern game.
Your opinion Azed, the man was not so good at Manchester United.
What do people think will constitute an expensive fee this summer?
Game seems to have levelled a little bit, is 50 mil the ‘standard’ for a quality player (like a Zaha)?
Guendouzi may well have some fancy ratings that his agent could leverage. Fact is, he hasn’t played well in most 2H games of the season. Up his pay a bit and tie him for 5 years sound good. But the rise can’t be almost 100%. More like 55k tbh. Who’s going in for him anyway despite the rating? No way we’d offer Auba 250k pw. He’s both golden boot and top of missing BIG chances! We’d be a comfy 3rd if Auba didn’t fuck up 20/30% of those chances. With all the bonuses (eg when he cores), why don’t we… Read more »
“We overpay our players. I like Guendouzi, but I feel our fans and club are once again overhyping a developing player. Eriksen is one of the best players in the league and is roughly on 75k too – why should a 20 year old kid whose done okay also be on the same? Our financial business is so poor.”
Top rated comment on the Guendouzi wage increase report on the daily mail
If a CL contender offered 50m plus for Torreira, would you sell?
Nope. He’s likely to be worth that much in another season or more in two so I no I wouldn’t. I would hate to think that would be a possibility especially considering that it’s 3 seasons now for Xhaka and still no improvement. I hope and pray that the rumors of interest from Inter or Milan are true
Another ripsnorter from PedRo today- and I thank him for it. With regards to his headline ‘ Transfer Stategy Shift’ Rest assured – there is no strategy with Raul the Hack at the helm. But we -as Arsenal fans will be certainly be Shafted this summer – with the guaranteed overseas dross that will undoubtedly be arriving. As Raul will do what’s best for Raul- not Arsenal. ( exactly like Harry Redknapp- in that regards) Spurs pursuit of Sessignion of Fulham is what I call a transfer strategy. A young, talented Brit- with oodles of improvement in him. And pace… Read more »
“What do people think will constitute an expensive fee this summer?”
I don’t think we should pay more then 40m for a singe transfer this window. I will make an exception if the person being replaced also fetches a sizable fee
James Wood
Don’t see that happening this summer.
I mentioned Torreira, because while he is a good player, we need more quality on the ball at CM. If we had a fit and healthy Cazorla instead of either Torreira or Xhaka, we’re comfortably in 3rd this year.
I think both Xhaka and Torreira can be upgraded on
Expect Mustafi, Lichtsteiner,Elneny,Welbeck, Ramsey and maybe Koscielny as the only outgoings this summer.
Charlie I think it’s settled down a bit. De Jong going for 67 million and Hazard for apparently 80 odd million suggests that. Of course that likely goes out the window again if Madrid actually want to sign up Mbappe or Neymar. My guess is even Pogba will go for less than what United paid for him. Pepe as well will go for about 50-60 million instead of the 75-80 million knocking about
What has guendouzi done to deserve £75,000/week contract? What kinda club is this for goodness sake? Auba too?? We obviously haven’t learned a thing from ozil’s fiasco
Top comment RH. It’s more like we are rewarding and reinforcing mediocrity. He’s good but he could be better, reward him when he is better.
In total, Auba failed to put away 23 big chances this year. For context, again: Salah, Mane and Sergio Aguero – who netted 21 PL goals – missed 16, 11 and 10 respectively.
Auba should be put on olx,,,,,,sell ittttttt
the way Dani Parejo plays reminds me of cazorla
great vision and passing
Yeah I’d probably go above 40 million for a wideman and that’s it to be honest. Most of the other positions we need filling can be made with signings under 40 million. Maybe CB though I can’t see someone like Konate or Djene being worth over 30-40 million
Receding/Marko
What do we think then? Obviously nuances like contract situations, clauses, ages etc taken into consideration. But all things being equal is the following fair-ish?
65+mil = best in class type
50mil = quality player, big improvement expected
35mil = really good, clear upgrade
20mil = good player, should fulfil a need
Think it will be easier to shift Aubameyang on big money in 2021 /22 than Lacazette. He is a low touch player who is a goal scorer. An Italian side will sign him in his 30s.
Pretty fair prices Charles
Seems about right. Though I still think the prices these days are way out of whack. I would like to see us shop in the 25-45 million bracket for defenders and midfielders and 45-65 million bracket for attackers. Or one attacker. I think we should aim for one marquee signing a summer
Lari03 i think people are getting carried away with the whole 70m valuation thing placed on Guendouzi by a newspaper or something.
No one has actually offered that for him so why the hurry? 75k and he fails to develop(and he has a lot of developing to do? what next??
Auba has just won the golden boot, scored 4 in the Semi Final tie, scored 31 this season, and has 2 years left on his contract.
Its either a new contract or sell.
Raul clearly said a few months ago that from now on players wont go into their last 2 years.
Both our forwards aren’t worth that. They are shite.
A striker needing 43 big chances only to score 20, is that a striker?
Again it would be hypocritical of me to be against that sort of money for Aubameyang. I love the player think he’s been an excellent signing for us but 80 million from Madrid that could be our Liverpool selling Coutinho/Spurs selling Bale moment
In that case I think we’re better served at the low end for the majority of our deals, and look to get better as a group. Gambon notes how Liverpool adopted a similar strategy before layering with genuine undisputed quality. Which isn’t to say we can’t/won’t buy someone at 25 mil who is worth 65 in a season because of damn good scouting. But without that, I’d like to see us pick positions we want X from, and buy a guy to deliver X. We do that and we make improvements imo. Maybe not the sexiest thing in the world,… Read more »
Giving two journeyman forwards £500k per week with zero sell on fee is Ozil all over again.
This club is doing its best to alienate any fan that remembers pre Wenger.
I honestly would prefer to sell Auba and get Pepe. It is almost criminal the amount of chances Auba misses. Or we could sell Auba and buy Luka Jovic.
I will drive Aubameyang to Madrid myself for 80m and no i do not believe Madrid are offering 80m pounds for a 30 year old striker.
The Lacazette to Barcelona rumors is more believable
https://www.premierleague.com/news/1214151
I’ve no issue selling Auba at 80 mil, it’s that sort of ruthless “greater good” move that has propelled our rivals.
Someone offers that and it’s Auba out, Zaha and Sarr in for example.
That’s the self-sustainable life in a nutshell.
I don’t think Guendouzi is worth 70m.
It’s all paper talk when he carries the midfield for a season with reasonable evidence, then he may be worth 50m, but right now no one would wager more than 25m on him.
Laca talent at Barca? Lolz. When did this piece of bullplop land? Lacas agent trying to get arsenal to resign on bigger wages.
As for Real wanting Auba for £80m? Again…do these two share the same agent or what?
Anything close to £40m for each and I would bite their hands off.
I mean Aubameyang has spent years offering himself to Madrid through interviews calling them his dream club and they never took the bait
What changed??
31 goals this season is hardly record breaking and he is getting older and is pretty much one dimensional.
Gued for £70m????
What the fuck has happened? Agents are doing the rounds big time today.
Charlie we’re already doing that with the Torreira and Guendouzi signings. I get that as a strategy and no one’s expecting 65 million type signing. I expect 20 odd million signings in fullback and midfield positions. I hope that we don’t try to address the defence with another 15 million CB we need to buy actual quality in that area
The business with Raiola could hurt any potential Mkhi sale, certainly until late in the day.
@ marko, auba just turned a good signing, nothing excellent about him. There’s no way we can discuss our top 4 shortcomings without singling him out for chances on platter that he missed. How many sitters he missed against Chelsea, even against smaller clubs, how about last minute pk miss against spurs? Even cech would have scored that. He has done nothing deserving of an improved contract
PedRo
“””We don’t have a vision, so we’re a mess.””:
Absolutely.
The outrageously conceited arrival of Edu as tech Director mid summer illustrates this point.
Let’s hope Edu surprises us – sacks Emery immediately and appoints a bold manager and implements a much needed vision.
But, I suspect his very lucrative and ridiculously long contract will stifle any future potential friction between the pair…
Expect Edu to turn into the Brazilian Bould
Comatosed and just taking the cash.
Auba hasn’t shown any deterioration and Madrid should be looking at moving on from Benzema. I can see them being interested in Auba
If Gendouzie (or anybody) gets a wage increase, that is a big black mark against Emery as far as I am concerned.
“Let’s hope Edu surprises us – sacks Emery immediately”
CG, another one who will turn his jacket if we win the ELC final…
The business with Raiola could hurt any potential Mkhi sale, certainly until late in the day.
Don’t bet your house on it. I’ve heard that argument being made about how we’ll be stuck with Mhiki for another season because of his agent being banned and I can tell you right now that isn’t going to stop De Ligt or Pogba or others from moving this summer so it shouldn’t stop Mhiki from either
Marko
Our defence consists of Monreal, Kos, Licht who are all coming the end. Then you’ve got to wonder if Kola, Mavro, Chambers, Mustafi are even up to standard.
I get what you mean about wanting a VVD type, but imo we first need a plethora of peak Gary Cahills about the place ie fit for purpose, has the raw tools if not the quality.
Bring 4 good, well suited, players in and maybe one bit of alright (though I’d sooner an attacker here because we’re hoping for miracles if we expect our double act to carry us again).
Marko
With respect, clubs will handle some bullshit to get hold of De Ligt and Pogba, they might just say fuck it if there’s any additional guff with trying to land Mkhi.
The biggest problem Aubameyang has had this season, is the players behind him are absolute shite.
At Dortmund he averaged 3.6 shots per game, at Arsenal 2.4 shots per game.
“Marko
Our defence consists of Monreal, Kos, Licht who are all coming the end. Then you’ve got to wonder if Kola, Mavro, Chambers, Mustafi are even up to standard.”
Oh, I thought our defenders was alright and it was just Emery working his voodoo on them to make our defence shite? That’s 7 players not up to scratch in our defence then? Wonder why we conceded 51 goals again…
Selling Auba for 80 million isn’t a guarantee we even reinvest that sort of money.
I don’t trust this board’s transfer acumen/ambition or Kroenke’s for that matter, so that money could simply be pocketed by the higher ups.
Also replacing 30 goals a season is hard and not cheap. Keep him at least a little longer.
I get what you mean about wanting a VVD type, but imo we first need a plethora of peak Gary Cahills about the place ie fit for purpose, has the raw tools if not the quality. Those types of signings help immediately though but that’s not what I meant. I meant more no more buying up 15 million pound CBs I would prefer instead for example like to see us sign Konate for 25-35 million or Diaz from Benfica for 25-30 million or Djene for whatever. We’re unfortunately not going to improve defensively with 10-20 million signings in that area.… Read more »
Charlie I doubt there’s going to be any guff regards to Raoila he’ll find a way around it. No way it’s going to have an impact on players moving.
Yep. We’re down three shots per game this season in comparison to last year.
Aubameyang has flirted with Real Madrid in the past, so that’s a deal that may happen.
I like Lacazette, but I’m not confident of us being a CL side with him as the primary goal scorer.
Marko
Yea most likely, guy has an unreal talent for making money off of football transfers so he’ll slither something.
Freddie
Our defenders are better than 51 goals conceded, that isn’t to say they’re up to scratch in terms of our aspirations. Give it a rest, people are giving their bit on transfers. Doesn’t need a wooden spoon on here trying to cause a fuss.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9068013/arsenal-guendouzi-deal-75k/
If this is true, Raul and Vinai need to be sacked,
The biggest problem Aubameyang has had this season, is the players behind him are absolute shite.
That is absolutely correct. The amount of goals scored while factoring in the severe lack of creativity and chances created by the shite behind him is staggering. You put in very doable signings like Brandt or Fornals and Lozano or Neres and you’re talking about a 30 goal a season striker in the league
Last Arsenal player to score 30+
– RVP is last season.
– Adebayor in 08
– Henry in 06
If you look at Auba’s numbers, he’s ahead or touching Henry in nearly every category at this stage of matches played.
Scored 41 in 64 played, averaging 2.5 shots per game, that playing with far less creativity in the mid.
Raoila seems like someone who’s an obvious scumbag but for some reason has an unbelievable relationship with his clients
Worth mentioning Yannick Carrasco has started the Chinese season on fire.
6 goals and 1 assist in the first 8 games, and some huge attacking numbers to go with it.
Someone will take a punt on him.
Gambon
Sort of fee will get him out of there?
Also..
Who are the “best” players available under 30 mil?
Auba and Leno are the only absolute-must-need-this-position signings we’ve actually had in years. Without Sanchez, we needed goals. Giroud has never exactly been prolific, to the point where Walcott scored more in some seasons than he did. We went out and spent record money on Auba… and he’s delivered exactly what we needed. Leno is the same. We needed a good keeper, better than the string of rubbish-to-average we’ve had since Lehman and Leno came in and did just that. Anybody want to guess how many points worse off we would be if Cech was the #1 for the whole… Read more »
“Worth mentioning Yannick Carrasco has started the Chinese season on fire.
6 goals and 1 assist in the first 8 games, and some huge attacking numbers to go with it.
Someone will take a punt on him.”
He was on our loan list so may be we might go back with a Wenger type offer of $15M and a pack of chips.
No idea about the Carrasco fee. Not sure about him. Huge talent though. Best players under £30m? Hard to say what that buys these days. Brandt has a £25m clause, so is an absolute bargain. Hes an Eriksen level player at 1/3 the price. Rumours Pablo Fornals can be bought for £30m Allan St Maximin, Marcus Thuram, Ismaila Sarr, Samuel Chukwueze would probably be under £30m Might be able to buy Doucoure for £30m Ibrahim Sangare is making a big name for himself, as is Youcef Atal. Kieran Tierney? I still think hes a bigger talent than Robertson. Ismael Bennacer… Read more »
I wanted Yannick in January and i still want him
As for the fee question it really depends on how much he is willing to sacrifice to get back to Europe
Chinese league lol. Ighalo is tearing it up.
‘Its either a new contract or sell.
Raul clearly said a few months ago that from now on players wont go into their last 2 years.’
I think you have to factor in the age too. Auba is no spring chicken at 30. We could still decide to get to his last year and see how he performs in the ‘new team’