You know when people are like, ‘Christmas has started because the Pret Christmas Latte just dropped’ or something nauseatingly basic like that? The football equivalent is, ‘you know summer has started when Ornstein drops a bombshell that Arsenal will be shite in the transfer window.’
He’s only gone and done it AGAIN.
Top level: ‘It’s going to be a bit bland’
If we lose against Chelsea, £40m is our starting point.
We’re going project youth with a bit of experience (same as last summer).
We want a centre back, an Aaron replacement, and a winger type entity.
Additionally, if there is an extra special deal, we’ll chase a left back, right back and a striker.
ARSENAL WILL NOT BREACH FFP
Thank fuck for the last snippet, I know there’s been a lot of grumblings in the community of late about making sure we don’t EVER break a single rule, right now, I’m just letting off a massive sigh of THANK FUCK that we’re going to play it safe.
So what to make of this goss fest?
Well, don’t wet those panties you absolute man child. Also, why are you wearing panties? Grow up and step away from your mum’s lingerie drawer you 35-year-old freak. Get your 2001 Beano branded specials on and let’s dive into the mixer like peak Bobby P against Pompey.
If we are a Europa League club, blasting money away isn’t sensible. The MIGHTY Swiss Ramble has some analysis on how badly we’ve been rocked by the step-down.
So the benefits of qualifying for the Champions League over the Europa League are clear. As it stands, English CL clubs have earned well over twice as much as EL clubs – even though 2 have reached the final:#LFC €107m#THFC €102m#MUFC €93m#MCFC €93m#CFC €40m#AFC €36m pic.twitter.com/r82tADlaaN
— Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) May 13, 2019
We have a lot of expensive dross in the squad and I’d imagine Stan is asking Raul to realign the wage bill and move on the shite before we start going nuts again. £235m a year in wages is outrageous for the return.
Secondly, there’s some heated debate over whether the Ornstein budget figure is right. Some say we’re hiding our improved financial success, some say the number is what it is.
This is Gambon from the comments on where the new cash is coming from.
💰New club level seats £5m
💰Adidas £30m
💰Emirates 12m
💰Visit Rwanda £10m
💰New TV deal £10m
I’ve heard the lower number since November, and I’d say if we were looking at a £100m starting point, we’d have loosened the purse strings in January. Telling that we didn’t do that, isn’t it?
It’ll be interesting to see how hard we go at freeing up cash this summer. Mustafi and Xhaka should surely be heading for the exit door, there should be £70m incoming for those two alone. Auba is being linked to Madrid for £85m. Love him to bits, he’s helped shape our season, but he’s 29 so don’t be sentimental about this. The biggest travesty of the latter years of Arsene is his hoarding of players. We need to learn how to sell at peak, he’s hit peak, so we should absolutely take that cash if it’s on offer and invest like Liverpool did when they earned a big windfall. I’d take losing a 29-year-old versus having to lose a kid to find the next step.
Also, don’t moan at me and starting bleating on that he’s our best player… who did you vote for in the Arsenal Player of the Season Award?
What?
Speak up?
Thought so.
You hypocritical disgrace.
Drop transfer exits like I’ve laid out and you’re at £190m for spending power. You can buy many nice toys with cash like that. Then think of all the other players we could shift on… Elneny, Chambers, Mikhi, Jenks… there’s £30m in that mix.
Basically, don’t read into the £40m like that’s as far as the summer goes. It simply says to me that selling players is key to a hype summer execution.
Cut away all of the speculation, which could be spot on, or it could be really badly wrong (Ornstein had us with a £100m budget in January), the real story for me is that Edu only has an offer on the table, he hasn’t said yes.
Emery and Raul are at the wheel. We know they like sniffing around that bargain section. They’re the footballing equivalent of yellow sticker sandwich eaters. They don’t even like medium rare beef and Stilton… but if that sticker says 26p, it’s in the basket, no questions asked. Denis Suarez was a brown banana that was found under the fridge, the yellow sticker was just bants… but someone bought it, you know who? Yep. Yep.
So our summer is going to happen without the future architect of the club sailing the ship. Sven, love him or hate him, helped navigate us away from players like Banega, Nzonzi, Malcolm, and Denis Suarez. What is going to happen now? I like Cagigao, he sourced Santi, Bellerin and Cesc… but how much power will he be given?
Emery isn’t good at spending money if you look at some of the players he’s been responsible for in the past, he likes old and slow… or just utterly Suarezy. Raul wouldn’t be hiring a TD if he knew how to build a squad. Seems like a recipe for expensive mistakes. It looks like we’re going to head into next season without a vision or direction again. It’s spend and hope. I hate that. It is never going to work when those above us are driving towards an exciting vision mapped to a plan (Not Chelsea, lolololol).
Hopefully, I’m wrong. Nkunku looks a player when I’ve watched him. Djené has a lot of hype around him and £13.5m seems a bargain. However, there’s a bad stench of Rabiot-to-Arsenal everywhere you read, the guy has a piss poor attitude and didn’t like Emery last time around. Then I worry we’ll rekindle bland dreams of the past, Perisic or Carrasco are weighing heavily on my mind. Players past their prime, or with Ozil like attitudes to the game.
I don’t want to fuck about with talent that has temperament issues. Just give me young prime meat that wants to explode onto the scene. £75k a week or less. No mega contracts that make them fat and lazy. Let’s operate on a lean model and make sure hunger is central to their MO… just like it is at Spurs. I read a Poch article the other week that said he loved the players who want to leave because they care about success, be wary of those who thrive in comfort. Who is begging to leave Arsenal? Says a lot… right? A few too many just in it for the cashed paycheque.
Anyway, a real mixed back. Needless to say, summer will be busy. x
P.S. Souness and Keane FURIOUS that once again, they are proved wrong by a foreigner with better ideas of how the game should be played (tackles number). Arteta helping to architect one of the smartest off the ball sides the Premier League has ever seen, I’m welling up everyone, someone pass me a tissue, so emosh.
Wenger joined an ‘elite’ club and made it an irrelevance
PedRo “””Arsenal looking to go unspectacular this summer (shocker)””” the only thing spectacular in and around AFC at the moment- is our PedRos’ spectacular AFC work ethic.**** (many thanks,) We certainly – were not spectacular last summer too. Hence the appointment of Useless and unambitious Unai. The stats/data coming out of Man Citys season are stunning. ( as illustrated above) . Clearly Arteta is fundamental to the City success story. What a breath of fresh air – it would be to see this handsome , immaculate, ‘Pep – inspired’ cultured and multi lingual Spaniard wearing the Arsenal blazer next season… Read more »
“‘Jugde him in May’ it’s May and I was correct.”
No you weren’t”
lol so true.
David Smith
We got the wrong billionaire.
I think you can safely say the Sheiks are responsibke for Man City’s success not Guardiola.
PedRo
“”” I’ve had Emery clocked since October.”””
I had him sussed in July.
I have a case of ” Dom Pérignon 2009 already in the cellar – when he gets his inevitable marching orders. Hopefully he will be on his Bike in Baku!
Rather fitting.
We are Arsenal- we do not do Unai Emery!
“I think you can safely say the Sheiks are responsibke for Man City’s success not Guardiola.”
He wouldn’t even be there without them
Nor will he be at Arsenal either
C’mon Pedro, you seriously consider this Wenger disaster “elite”. Arsenal ain’t been elite in close to a decade. No place in elite teams for dross like Djourou, Almunia, Denilson, Silvestre, Chamakh, Sanogo, Park, Asano, and the list goes on.
Am friends with “elite”, and he’s not happy with you. Get in ur knees and ask for forgiveness.
Pedro saying Wenger ”gave it a go” during final years
Hilarious revisionism now I’m howling lololol
The guy cannot see straight since last July, just all out red mist lmao
Pedro, remember you posted a couple of weeks ago stating that you were lambasted by your friend for being harsh on Unai and you would be more ‘nice’, lol – that lasted for what…all of two posts?
In all seriousness though, Emery will at least see out this year and if there is no tangible improvement he will be shown the door. I hope the discourse this year isn’t centred on how much we could do with Arteta again as the last season was.
Bring Arteta in!!
Treble PL/FA Cup/Carambar Cup next season!!
RH
““Super Cup was a special comment.”yep it’s a game i have always enjoyed watching A better curtain raiser than the charity shield by some distance”
The charity shield /community shield is in fact the “super cup” so I’m not sure how you can say the super cup is a ” better curtain raiser” than the charity shield….it’s the same thing …doh!
Arsenal have, in fact , recently won the super cup on 3 occasions to add to the FA cup victories .
Classy from the Man City players and staff singing that song about the Liverpool fan dying at last seasons champions league final. Their excuse is they weren’t singing about the death but about the actual final defeat is absolute bullshit. Just real quality stuff there fellas
Pierre the two best teams in Europe is a better game than the two best teams in England. Charity shield isn’t a real trophy by the way
Pierre the community shield has never been referred to as a super cup
Probably because it is a shield not a cup
I know you believe the FA Cup is the pinnacle of football so i will just let you be
“Arsenal have, in fact , recently won the super cup on 3 occasions to add to the FA cup victories .”
I’m still puzzled why Arsenal sacked Wenger after all those recent cup successes…..enlighten me Pierre?
Pierre was never in agreement with Wengers sacking so isn’t really the guy to ask for enlightenment
lol Lil’ P, strikes again.
I would say that in England, more football fans watch the English version of the super cup than the European version of the super cup, unless of course their own team is competing in the European version..
“Again, Liverpool went from 10th to 2nd. Sauciest managerial apt in the league. Poch has overseen a stadium move and a CL final, a saucy apt.”
There’a an 8th and a couple 4th’s in there Pedro.
Someone needs to show Pierre an image of an actual cup so he knows what one looks like.
Marko
“Classy from the Man City players and staff singing that song about the Liverpool fan dying at last seasons champions league final. Their excuse is they weren’t singing about the death but about the actual final defeat is absolute bullshit. Just real quality stuff there fellas”
They had been gorging on expensive champagne provided by premier league sponsors and just ecstatic from winning the closest league title race ever.
C’mon…give them a break and didn’t join the Liverpool pity party.
If “elite” means Arsenal challenging for PL and CL honor, then I kind of agree with Pedro. There are only two solutions:
– replace Kroenke with another suger daddy similar to MC or PSG
– or rebuild the team completely like Ajex.
Raul and Emery will turn us into Sevilla type status in the EPL and we may win an European cup from time to time. Each Summer, they’ll put some papers over the cracks.
“I would say that in England, more football fans watch the English version of the super cup than the European version of the super cup, unless of course their own team is competing in the European version..”
Because English clubs haven’t been that successful in Europe
Besides, no one else watches the charity shield either, just fans of the two clubs
Marko
“Pierre the two best teams in Europe is a better game than the two best teams in England. Charity shield isn’t a real trophy by the way”
The 2 ( maybe 3) best teams in europe ARE the best teams in England. As I told you back in January , we(england) would dominate Europe and We are.
I would say that in England, more football fans watch the English version of the super cup than the European version of the super cup
They also watch a lot of EastEnders and it doesn’t make it any less shit and irrelevant
There’s a little prize money for the European Super cup, 3.5 million euros for the winner and 2.5 million for the loser
The English dominance isn’t going to last long
The continental European club powers are already realigning their teams.
Real, Barca and Juventus will be stronger
I don’t consider PSG anything other than Vaentin’s ITK fetish. They are not a serious club.
They had been gorging on expensive champagne provided by premier league sponsors and just ecstatic from winning the closest league title race ever.
C’mon…give them a break and didn’t join the Liverpool pity party.
Respectfully dissenter but are you an idiot? How’s that an excuse? Literally could have sang any number of other songs but chose that one. Some excuse that. Champagne and celebrating I suppose if they sang about the holocaust or some racist shit that excuse would be okay by you.
Marko So you’re equating what they sang about Salah to racist chants or the holocaust? I think you need to moderate your outrage because it doesn’t even come close. This story came out and is not generating more than a corner space in any serious newspaper. It was clear those players were inebriated. They even mistook Kolo Toure for an active city player even though he was dressed in a suit and carrying a sky sport mic. To “kill” has more than one meaning. I killed my last re-certification exams but it’s not buried 6 feet under. Trump killed my… Read more »
Marko, you appear to be weighed down by our current situation. You’re ‘depressed’ state doesn’t seem to allow you to consider a more positive perspective. When Liverpool were in 10th they decided to back Klopp to turn things around. Once he’d gained the full confidence of the owners he was backed significantly. Now you can see the value of a project. For me, Emery is not going to take us to the promised land. He was available and was willing to take the job with limited financial backing, knowing that the squad was limited and well behind a few other… Read more »
An elite club who’s transfer budget is 40 million……..Newly promoted teams spend much more than that by the way……Arsenal fans are the masters of grand delusion it’s not even funny…..Screaming at Elite club who haven’t won a league title in eons and haven’t won a European trophy or it’s equivalent…., Give it a rest guys, we’re now a bug standard Europa league team
Don’t think you have to play the grim reality card incessantly, Marko. Supporting a football team is surely about dreaming big.
Bob
There’s dreaming and there’s delusions of grandeur, what most Arsenal fans are stuck in is the latter
Batistuta, there is a difference between rich and elite.
Pedro
Arsenal are not elite, we haven’t won our own league or come close in more than a decade
I mean how distasteful is to to suggest that the city players were singing about Sean Cox or to Hillsborough.
Liverpool know how to generate a pity party when they have done some of the most vile things in world football
The Heysel stadium disaster is marked in infamy. They started a process that killed innocents and deprived other English clubs an opportunity to compete in Europe.
… and there’s lowering the bar to justify mediocrity.
The ‘it’s not possible’ arguments have been festering since the days of Wenger.
I’ve always argued it is if you’re smart about who you hire… Liverpool, Dortmund, Spurs and Ajax are all showing the different ways you can get back into top level competing.
So….
Atletico sell Griezmann to Barca for £105m……
Lacazette was supposed to go to Atletico in summer 2017 until their transfer ban…
Does anyone else see a potential £80m sale?
I mean we’ve just had our first 30 goal striker since 2012 and we’re in 2019, means we’ve not has any striker of any sort in 7 years
Someone says something distasteful about the Scousers and everyone’s supposed to be up in arms. Scousers push locals minding their own business into a fountain in Barcelona and it’s ignored.
Can’t believe I’ve actually got to support them in the CL final. I wonder how many arrests there’ll be?
“So….Atletico sell Griezmann to Barca for £105m……Lacazette was supposed to go to Atletico in summer 2017 until their transfer ban…
Does anyone else see a potential £80m sale?”
Yep…
We can get a back up striker and Pepe with that 80M.
I’ve always argued it is if you’re smart about who you hire… Liverpool, Dortmund, Spurs and Ajax are all showing the different ways you can get back into top level competing.
Pedro
We hired a has been from Barca as the CEO who oversaw us using a whole month to pursue a crooked player, some smart hire that was
Lacazette for £80m is good business, keeps us with an elite goal scorer in PEA playing thru the middle.
With a nice number to add into the reported pot.
Winning the league is just one part of elite.
Elite is prestige.
Look at our revenues, look at the size of our fanbase, look at the quality of everything we offer as a brand and club… we are elite.
Just need better leadership to unlock the potential.
Pedro
Actually we are neither rich nor elite
We ought to be concerned about the gap between us and spurs being crystallized.
They are going to monetize their new stadium and this excellent CL because of the opportunities it gives them for branding. It’s like their history never happened.
They have a manager who is using his leverage to demand footballing investments by publicly threatening to walk away. That’s one thing the Monsieur never did.
We need to be very afraid and this has nothing to do with the manager but the dearth of any discernible structure or plan.
I mean we’re the only team who’s owner hasn’t put a penny in the club since he took over because he obviously doesn’t care but yea we’re an elite club
Bati, you know my concerns with Raul… but Edu could be a smart move. Shifting gears to elite youth is smart. We haven’t seen a Raul full year yet. Let’s see what he does. Could be epic. Could be Banega on toast. We’ll see.
Azed
I would say we could sign Zaha & Pepe for about £100m
Then play 4-3-3, and both Zaha and Pepe can deputise at CF when Auba is ijnured or rested
Gambon wants to incur TR7’s wrath with this Laca transfer talk.
Laca isn’t going to be here when pore-season starts
We need to cash in while the iron is hot.
Look at our revenues, look at the size of our fanbase, look at the quality of everything we offer as a brand and club… we are elite.
Pedro
Look at the state of our squad, out transfer budget and tell me what’s elite about any of that
Pedro
Not sure you can say we are Elite. A sleeping Elite level club or one with Elite potential maybe but we’ll get to the promised land. It just won’t be in 9 months.
“We haven’t seen a Raul full year yet. ”
Hasn’t he been here longer than Emery?
Yes please to selling Lacazette for 80m Gambon
Winning the EL will give us a very brief reprieve to put some gloss on and attract some good players.
I wonder why we aren’t going after Ismaila Sarr. from Rennes?
That’s the type of player we need- the young ones just ready to make that kick unto the next level
Bati, you know my concerns with Raul… but Edu could be a smart move. Shifting gears to elite youth is smart. We haven’t seen a Raul full year yet. Let’s see what he does. Could be epic. Could be Banega on toast. We’ll see.
Pedro
Wouldn’t hold my breath if i were you, he’s a disaster hire and it’s only going to get worse
I would say we could sign Zaha & Pepe for about £100m
Yes please
We should be going all out to sign Zaha. London lad
Arsenal will not be too much of a step up for him.
He can own his postion at Arsenal.
Bati, not delusions of grandeur but realistic ambition. This ‘we’re a Europa League club now’ narrative is a bit ‘cry baby’. We were in the CL for best part of 20 years and we’ve been in the EL for 2. Get a grip doomsayers! Our 100 year anniversary this year for being in the top division. Third most League titles, most FA cup wins. Ok, so things aren’t going well but we finished 5th and have got to the EL final. If this is as shit as it gets before we turn a corner then to outsiders we would deserve… Read more »
I repeat I love Zaha
He is someone we should be looking to unsettle, drive the price down. Maybe offer someone as part of the deal, Iwobi?
How come the ex-Barca executives at city [Soriano and Txiki Begiristain] get so much plaudits from people but all Raul Sanllehi gets from many here is condescension?.
Raul is all we have now. Lets give him his first window and then assess him.
Buy low sell high always welcome, and way to go. 80% of the squad, Auba and Laca included,ccan go. That alone could raise 200m+, before the 40m kicks in. And re-balance the silly wage level.
Also, we need to price our English dross much better. They shouldn’t be cheap and ain’t any worse than some that gone for 15 – 30m, tbh.
In the past, Wenger (+ the snake) seem to be like giving away players to ‘help’ them move eg Giroud, Sczc, Gnabry.,Campbell.
We ain’t fucking charity. Other than Ox, we low balled ourselves big time.
Gambon
100M for Zaha and Pepe is good but I don’t think we have the midfield for 4-3-3. Aside from Torriera, we would 2 other midfielders(Guendozi should not be a starter.
I think Zaha is an excellent target but for the sheer amount of money it will take to make the deal possible.
I just don’t think we can afford him.
I don’t think any of the top-6 teams will seek his transfer as it stands. Palace will have to come done to the 35-45 million transfer fee range.
We were in the CL for best part of 20 years and we’ve been in the EL for 2. Get a grip doomsayers! Bob Funny, we were in the CL for how many gazillion years and only got to one final, let’s not forget the numerous thrashings and embarrassments…..Please spare me the whole super fan angle, of what use exactly has being in the champions league done us? 2 years in the EL and a semi and a finals tell us that maybe we are finally at our level Bob…… Of course i want my club to dine at the… Read more »
Arsenal are elite club in England but they are nowhere when it comes to Europe, gunners are top quality domestically but they have never travel well outside of England.
Arsenal should be bigger club than it is, it is largest club in richest biggest European city, has been mismanaged by toffs for decades.
If we are an Elite club we go and buy Zaha.
We cant sell both of our strikers. Would be ridiculous. Look how much trouble our rivals have had finding a quality striker. UTD spent £75m on Lukaku, and the fans hate him. Chelsea spent £70m on Morata, who has now been shipped off to make way for Higuain, who eats too many Pukka Pies. Auba won the GB, and also led the PL in xG over the course of the season. He’s elite. The question is do we need 2 top strikers more than we need a top team? Its like having 2 Porsches, but no garage to keep them… Read more »
Too much cash in the Premiere league, making players like Zaha unattainable as clubs don’t have to sell.
Sal
“Too much cash in the Premiere league, making players like Zaha unattainable as clubs don’t have to sell.”
True but the player wants to leave to test himself. I suspect that he signed his contract extensions and had certain provisions put in to facilitate his release when push came to shove.
Would you sell Laca and use the proceeds to buy Zaha plus central midfielder?
As Pedro used to say Arsenal are an example of what happens when the elite owners of an elite institution can’t be bothered: elite mediocrity.
Good post Pedro
Until the last bit…
Did you not claim at the end of last season that we need to get behind the new manager ?
All managers make ricketts in signings
Wenger won the league in that every year…
But still banging the arteta drum now a year on …
Tells what spoilt life you have lead .
I love Laca, but I do agree with Gambon.
Sell the Porsche, rebuild the house.
There’s talk in the Italian tabloids that Chelsea will sack Sarri regardless of the outcome of the Europa league final.
Seems he’s already lined up to replace Gattuso at Milan.
Lol some of you…. We are an elite Club… We just don’t have enough elite players (2 or 3 maybe) or I would argue no elite manager. You all conveniently forget that City, Chelsea and Man U. are the reason for us not winning as many domestic League titles. Wenger was unable to keep up with them in his final 10 years… But if Arsenal were in any other League even with the players we have now.. we would be competing for a title. Why do you think we are in EL final? because we beat the best of the… Read more »
Ok we are Elite…
So what’s the formula to attract the greatest players at the club ??
except = accept my bad.
I’d be surprised if Pepe and Zaha go for £100m. I can see Lille wanting £70m for Pepe and Crystal Palace demanding not far off for Zaha (probably in the £50-60m range).
Midwest
Okay we are elite…but our summer transfer budget is allegedly just enough to buy Pogba’s right leg. [If you believe United’s 150 million valuation]
I also do not believe we have just £40m to play with this summer.
Leftside
The talk is that we are set to declare big losses this year which makes sense because we have been paying out crazy wages.
That 40 million may be the baseline without money from player sales.
Dissenter “Would you sell Laca and use the proceeds to buy Zaha plus central midfielder?” Absolutely, I love Zaha would immediately slot onto either flank, ideally the left with qualities we’ve lacked. One of best dribblers in league used to create separation, operates in the tightest of spaces. Can’t see a single defender handling him which opens space for the likes of PEA to utilize. Spend rest where needed, CB, CM, LB. Imagine a front three of Zaha, PEA, Pepe, although doesn’t seem very Emery more Klopp. Summer going to be interesting with Laca surely being tapped up, Madrid looking… Read more »
“our summer transfer budget is allegedly just enough to buy Pogba’s right leg. ”
That’s why we are Elite.
If I understand Midwest correctly…
HL, we attract players with a vision, a decent wage, an inspiring manager(!)and a city that is great to live in if you have money. Arsenal is still a massive club, Adidas, for example, wouldn’t be pissing away as much as they are on an ‘also ran’. We can’t afford too many years of relative mediocrity but we are still an attractive club.
I agree Sal, a big Summer. Can Raul handle it? Let’s hope so.
For 80m I would drive Laca to Barca. Pepe won’t cost 70m. More like 50 tops.
We could go a different route always and get Fekir (I don’t care what Valentin thinks) and Brandt. Further back, bring in Rabiot on a free.
All this achieved without even touching the lie lie 40m
Honestly I would use next summer’s transfer budget to get Zaha.
The lad wants to prove himself at the top level.
Am I the only one here who doesn’t want Rabiot here?
The season is almost practically over and no one has signed him up yet on a free…..
When you’re making the top 15-20 sports club in the world consistently, YOU’RE FCKIN ELITE! Man U being where they are now doesn’t stop them from being elite…Liverpool despite not winning the Premier league ever, are still fcking elite…..I agree with Pedro that until we appoint a special manager OR appoint a great architect to bring in the right players on our operating budgets, we will be EL level, and that’s not a bad thing, Atletico is elite, Chelsea is considered Elite, Leicester has one won Premier League title as is Blackburn, compared to Liverpool, …my point is, Wenger was… Read more »
I would hope the club tries to bring in 2 or 3 elite (sorry) players to form a more formidable spine in the team. New CB, B2B and goal getting wide player. Offload the deadwood and supplement squad with the best academy players.
Rather that than blow the budget on average mess.
Completely agree Chris.
azed
I think Rabiot’s new employers will be the most desperate club around which is United.
They will pay him a massive wage and use him to replace Pogba.
I think most fans are now so deluded with the amount being spent to be “Elite” PSG, Man City, Chelsea, Chinese Super League are all elite by their accounts….
So some are happy if we sell Lacazette and buy say Zaha or Pepe.
Imagine we sell and have only Auba as our top striker, who deputise when he’s injured or has a bad day at the office.
I can’t imagine us sell g Laca whiles Iwobi will still be around or Jenks, or Elneny.
My take: keep both. Athletico are after Cavani.
Basically what Bob said. You attract better players by building a brand of football that players want to play for and giving them a platform to showcase themselves.. to advertisers and fans basically the CL. It helps to be in London yes…. it is still the 3rd biggest city in Europe .. I believe. And yes we pay good wages.. look at Ozil.. we just pay good wages to the wrong players. Also regarding transfer budget.. we will see what it ends up being I never believe media warchest articles. If we end up spending fuck all that’s on the… Read more »
Dissenter
There is that, if the clubs reported contracts to put Laca and PEA into another deal are true and they both stay weathering the summer.
Getting Zaha for left would be fantastic, the need to generate money elsewhere would be necessary, without selling our “Coutinho” to generate funds.
Azed, you might not. Funny enough I don’t want Zaha but I can’t say it but cos he’s legroves flavor of the month.
Much rather Pepe or Fekir as inside forwards.
If we are an Elite club we go and buy Zaha.
Because he was so Elite at Man U….. he would be serviceable, but he won’t improve us significantly…….I’d rather search for the next gem for less than the reported 80m Crystal Palace wants. If they are willing to take 50m, I’d consider …
kayboss, pepe can readily deputise till auba comes back. He’s so cool when he finishes that I wonder if he’s a winger or a finisher.