The HEAT is finally here, and football is over… so a straight swap out. Football for summer. I’ll take it. But only if the Champions League final goes the way of Liverpool… otherwise, I’m bringing the white walkers back and we’re going to destroy the world and plunge it into darkness.
Transfer rumours are hotting up, most of the rumours around the centre backs are kind of bland. We seem to be chasing down a lot of short folk. We had many back in the day when we struggled from set-pieces because we loved to hire Tommy V like players, who had a tremendous leap… or a Willy G, who loved to sit on the halfway line and tell everyone he was good at saving money. Wenger really only addressed height when he landed Per Mertesacker.
Umtiti is the really worrying link. He’s a fabulous player, a sublime talent on his day, but we are really playing with the red flames of Abou Diaby’s memory here. There is a reason that Barca is shifting an £80m player for £40m. He has a massive DON’T GO HERE sign attached to his knee. He’s missed 31 league games in the last 12 months.
‘But the medical team would call the shots’, very doubtful. Firstly, we signed Kimmy K with a broken back (spotted > overruled). Secondly, we’d sign him in the knowledge that he’s a massive risk. For me, it’d be like taking a punt on Ledley King back in the day (United thought about it). When fit, he’s going to win you the league, but you’d be cursing his issues every year with ‘what ifs.’
Fitness has to be a priority for Arsenal. We need strong hamstrings, a record of sustained on pitch play and nothing chronic in the closet. We do not have the money to be taking Kanu like risks of yesteryear.
… and be real, we already gave Barca free money for a player everyone knew would tank. Going back to make another very weird deal would offer incredibly poor optics for Raul. I don’t want our football guy keeping Barca sweet because of his DNA. You get me?
I’m hoping that Arsenal seek value in players that have buyout clauses or a couple of years to go on their deals. Julian Brandt is rumoured to be going for as little as £25m. Ziyeck is going to leave with a release clause of £25m, a fabulous player with outrageous pace and work ethic.
Players that have deals expiring next year:
- Ryan Sessegnon
- Thomas Meunier
- Eric Bailly (steer clear, like Umtiti)
- Nacho
- Dries Mertens
- El Shaarway
- Allain Sain-Maximin
- Raph Guerreiro
- Ryan Fraser
- EVER BANEGA GOD NO PLEASE
- Mario Gotze
- Moise Keane
- Rafinha
- Kurzawa
- Keylor Navas (#2 anyone?)
- Adam Johnson
Just kidding on the last one. DIRTY NONCE. You just KNOW some Premier League chairman that is a nonce sympathiser is going to pull the ‘society must forgive’ card and roll with him. North of Manchester, no doubt.
The two-year deal players are also interesting, mainly because they’ll all be negotiating new contracts. Good clubs will be exiting them if it looks like they won’t sign. There’s some tasty names in this category.
- Lio Messi (get on it Raul, we’ll let this one go)
- Mauro Icardi
- Thiago
- Casemiro
- Florian Thauvin
- Memphis Depay
- Seb Haller
- Zielinski
- Hummels
- Carlos Soler
- Ginter
- Alex Telles
- Grimaldo
- Sarr
- Vazquez
- Julien Weigl
As you can see, lots of options if we want to play this summer. I don’t even have the list of players with buyout clauses.
Point being, we don’t have to take massive risks on mates rates names that come with health concerns. This league will not absorb any weakness. It’s faster, more competitive and more relentless than any other. The only way you compete is having more of your first team players fit than others.
It looked to me like Emery tanked his fitness plan this season, blowing up the front end of the season with OTT training regimes that hit him hard during the mid part of the season. December 2018 was a flashback to the dark days of Wenger, who famously bemoaned the science of fatigue a few weeks ago. If you don’t remember, we had an annual injury pileup because Wenger trained his players too intensely and didn’t rotate. He blamed luck, hair pills, witches, the vision of a Trump presidency… until we hired Shad, who took care of the nonsense.
Someone accused me of being hipster in the way I think about the game, for me, that’s a bit like telling a doctor he’s a hipster for reading medical journals. If you believe thinking about the future to gain an advantage is hipster, you really should keep those thoughts to yourself. The future is here, you can’t unfuture what has already arrived. Calling it hipster just makes you look dim.
Anyway, Ralph Rangnick spoke to Coaches Voice (great site), casually sipping on a cream atomised, fluggenhoffled, Germacano coffee that I believe was brewed from a rare strain of Russian coffee bean that garners its taste from the musical notes of Mikhail Glinka…. and gave his thoughts on respecting the ‘athletics’ guys (Shad and Burgess).
Five years ago, I would have thought it impossible that an athletics coach would tell me how many metres my team should run today, and how fast, in training. But that’s what’s happening. In the past, you’d have to trust your eyes and gut feeling as a manager to find the right dosage in training. Now, it’s a bit like picking up a rental car: they will tell you how much is in the tank and what your mileage is.
The athletics coaches are in charge of planning the whole week of training in terms of the intensity on any given day. We take our cues from them.
“Musical tastes aside, I have a strong connection with my players”
If you want to increase the speed of your game, though, you have to develop quicker minds rather than quicker feet.
Improvement translates as taking things in more quickly, analysing them more quickly, deciding more quickly, acting more quickly. At RB, we work on increasing the memory space and the processing pace. We put players into the Soccerbot, for example – a machine that simulates previous games and allows players to relive key moments of matches.
It’s PlayStation football, but with your feet. The players enjoy it so much we have a hard time getting some of them to stop.
YES RALPH. Love it. Again, the above shows you how the powershift is happening in elite football. The days of an assistant putting out cones are long gone. Each role is essential to building an elite sporting machine. Football follows the path of American sports, they lead the way on many things.
Anyway, my prediction is that clubs will start to move more towards specialist roles, versus the current broad strokes approach to coaching. We’ve already seen clubs take performance super seriously. I would imagine that more and more outfits are looking at people with more specialists offerings in defence, attack, and pressing. Ralph mentions in his piece that his team are trained to take risks in certain areas that present great counterpress opps, there must be a group of people working together to work out where the sweet spots are. Do we have that? RB is strategic about where they lose the ball. It’s a different level of thinking and it’s working for them.
Pep G just won the league with the least tackles of any team. Off the ball movement is now an absolute art in the Premier League. There is so much information that has to be absorbed by the modern player, that it’s no wonder major clubs are trying to pioneer ways of fast-tracking information into players brains so they can make better decisions.
Point being… when Barry down the Black Swan tells you football is about FIRST AND SECOND, tell him to fuck off, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Lyon didn’t sign Arteta, as I suspected, the Spaniard is being earmarked for City when Pep leaves. However, Aulas has infuriated some in the French press because he allowed Juninho to pick Sylvinho (left back for us that had to be booted for having a fake passport) as their new coach. His coaching experience extends to the Brazilian under 23s. It is a BOLD move, but again, it’s low risk for Aulas and the future of football clubs isn’t about that ONE GUY who will cost £15m a season and bring 50 of his mates, it’s going to have a more evenly spread system of responsibility and accountability. Football is basically replicating the organisational structures of corporate America.
GFFN bemoaned the hire because… JOSE AND WENGER WERE AVAILABLE. Rationalising that Aulas wanted to win the Champions League. I love that site, but whoever was manning the twitter lost their minds there. Jose just spent £360m at United and tanked them. He’s a nasty man with spiteful tendencies. He also doesn’t care about success anymore, he’s done. Then you have Arsene Wenger, who tried 20+ times to win the Champions League and failed… not to mention his HORRIBLE record with spending money, his grim Barry like views of the modern game and science combined with his terrible approach to tactics would chalk him off any right-thinking owner.
Wenger still not in a major job… shocker, right? Where is that PSG rumour when you need it?
Anyway, see you in the comments x
“He signed off on Ozil excessive deal! Fact! He signed off on Mikkis excessive deal! Fact!” No they are not facts, not even close to being facts or how the real world works – Sanllehi was appointed by Gazidis to work under him. Do you really think Gazidis needed permission from a subordinate whether to do a deal? You’re not naïve you’re somewhere between deluded and fucking la la. “But Rauls grubby fingerprints were all over those hectic deals that Jan.” The only finger prints on those deals were those of Gazidis. It’s also strange how you claim Sanllehi was… Read more »
I saw this very interesting quote. I thought I should share. It’s very revisionist and next level. No wonder Barca are ahead of the curve in most things.
“I don’t know how many signings there will be in the transfer window,” Valverde said. “That’s for the club to decide. I am part of that process but there are others who have their input. We have to build the best team possible.”
Or, maybe, that’s how clubs with modern structure (which Arsenal is now a part of) works. lols
“Let’s not pretend getting to the final was part of some grand master plan that included the signing of Denis Suarez.”
Beating Chelsea to the EL was the way most (if not all) fans on le grove thought we would get back to ucl, even Pedro. Let’s not change the tune now.
Takuma Asano is coming back lads
Hannover just announced they don’t want him.
Mystic
Since when? We had champions league qualification in our hands and blew it already more than once this season.
That’s a failure. The only thing that will save his season is a win v Chelsea now. If not then we’re are up shit creek with just £40m to spend and a manager that doesn’t know how to coach an already creaking defence after £70m worth of upgrades.
mystic The sensible moderate posters on here all accept that the management structure of the club has been changed. There are on going issue’s such as Sven leaving and the delays in bringing in a Tech Dir but we do not have a single person deciding on who we sign, what we pay and what they earn. The stupid thing is we never had that when Wenger joined, it’s been a relatively recent thing. When Wenger joined David Dein was acting as a DOF, Wenger would identify players he liked / positions he wanted to strengthen and Dein would do… Read more »
Receding,
Takuma Asano is coming back, but it’s not because Hannover don’t want him – that’s just a cover story.
The real reason is because Emery is flexing his muscles on the Recruitment front, and he insisted that he wanted him back, over Cagigao’s objections…
Marc,
Surely you got the memo – this is no place for sensible moderates.
Spanish takeover.
Emery out.
Arteta is Our Basque Jesus – Emery out.
WOAB my bad
Long live Asano then.. Guess he is one of those headless chickens we are told Emery loves
Again this £70 million worth of upgrades is twisting the truth although usually they also mention 5 signings. The money we spent was spread across a GK, a CB and 2 midfielders one of which was a 19 year old from the French 2nd division. Now if we look at the signings on an individual basis: Leno – Really good signing especially when you look at what some keepers were going for in the summer. Sok – Solid but not spectacular signing likes a card a little too much for my liking but there could be a bit of getting… Read more »
WOAB
Does that mean I can’t make any Gazpacho if we have a good summer?
Marc
Out of curiosity are the “sensible moderates” the same folk who were labelling Wenger a senile old cunt?
Curious how someone isn’t sensible according to you because they don’t share your views. Follows a pattern with you.
CC
I never got on board with calling Wenger that and I have always maintained the line against most views that hiss time at the club should not be viewed over 2 periods – successful and rubbish but 3, successful followed by the stadium move and then losing it.
I’ve also previously commented that it’s a crying shame that he destroyed an amazing legacy by not knowing when to call it quits. If he’d have gone after the Hull Cup win much of the previous few years would’ve be forgotten.
I don’t understand people clamouring for ziyech, you lot think iwobi won’t be beating ziyech in everything if he’s playing in eredivise? We need street ballers as wingers, this nigerian in Villarreal comes to mind. Just exchange him with iwobi, lobatan.
Iwobi should be exchanged for chukwueze
Iwobi should be exchanged is enough.
sensibility is long gone in these quarters my friend. I bet even Pedro wishes CG was articulate or sensible but he’s good for business so why ban? lol
Marc
Thanks for the post.
But…
You clearly have such ‘inbuilt’ Sycophantic personality traits- that had Arsenal FC foistered upon as a Robert Mugabe and Theresa May Managerial Dream Team- you would be singing the clubs praises for it
Appointing Emery was a chronic mistake
Promoting Raul to Head of Football was also a chronic mistake.
They have no track record of success
They are mediocre
They are incredibly lucky to be in their posts ( Kroenkes to blame ultimately)
Just accept it.,man
Because its foolish to defend the indefensible.
We can and must do better than these two Rejects.
Vincent kompany even became a real coach before arteta.. Arteta whooo?
Marc
Out of curiosity what is it that you find so offensive to warrant banning someone from commenting? Disagreeing with you on emery?
Also are you claiming that emery is not choosing his own players to sign after clearly being reported by 5 news papers to be scouting in Madrid?
Is arteta not being employed in a coaching capacity by Manchester City? Amazing how the fitness team gains so much credit on these pages yet the manager’s go to guy is seems as useless.
No wonder Pedro has labelled you flat earthed mongs
CG I’ve never thought Emery was more than a stepping stone, a steady pair of hands to allow us to get things under control and then move forward. Sanllehi was at Barca for 14 odd years (no track record? they didn’t win anything in that period?) and was promoted during that time. With that in mind I’m prepared to give him some time to see what he can do. The personality traits you paint me with are a reflection of you. My loyalty is Arsenal, when Wenger was past it I wanted him gone, if Emery doesn’t win the EL… Read more »
Please stop referring to Marc as “mystic”
There’s only one mystic…and it’s mysticleaves
How come the former Barca executives at city [ Soriano and Txiki Begiristain] get praise all the time but Raul Sanllehi can’t get any respect at all from the clowns of legrove?
Marc
“””I’ve never thought Emery was more than a stepping stone, a steady pair of hands to allow us to get things under control””
Since when have we become a stepping stone for anyone?
How about innovation….
Steady pair of hands.. ?what Are we digging up land mines in The Congo…
And if things go badly awry( which they will) with the New Regime- do we look for another ‘stepping stone appointment – to get us under control.?
What other major clubs appoint ‘stepping stone’ managers?
I wish you a good ebening
You are in total denial
Clubs dead
Like the black taxi game in London….
Like kestrel lager
It’s dead
Big stadium small ideas
Small stadium big club
Bring my arsenal back
The club is dead RSPCA
Dein leaving and leaving Highbury was the end of arsenal.
@Pedro,
When you asked my opinion on French/Ligue 1 Goalkeeper, I mentioned Mike Maignan. Tonight he has just been voted best Ligue 1 Goalkeeper by his peers.
He is one of the few goalkeepers who not only stop shots, but also catch corners and crosses instead of just punching them away.
Un
I really no longer care if it do well or fails
Highbury the home
Emeraites a conduit for laundering I’ll gotten gains
Marc
No Gazpacho por favor
Y muerta Espana
mystic
It was not crystal-gazing or the horse’s mouth that, at the turn of the year, made many of us conclude that the best hope of CL qualification lay in Arsenal winning the Europa Cup.
There were five clubs with superior squads to Arsenal, no players of note were added, and we had a manager with a habit of winning the ‘Losers’ cup.
Opportunities arose in PL. Chelsea tripped, Spurs stumbled, but only Man U fell.
Un The club is dead RSPCA Dein leaving and leaving Highbury was the end of arsenal. You are more right than you thought. And you gotta have to give kudos to AW for this magnificent coup. This club is paralysed with complacency. All we have now is suits who are now just chasing this top 4 fable that AW promised them on a silver plate. Indeed I blame AW. I blame him.for being more worried about himself, even though he banked himself circa £100 million + in wages over the last 10 years. Instead of caring for the club, he… Read more »
Valentin, he was in the list for two or less years on his deal.
@Pedro,
he was in the list for two or less years on his deal.
Who and what are you referring to?
My last comment was about Mike Maignan, the French goalkeeper of the LOSC (Lille).
I just learned today why Mike Maignan is so good with his feet. It is because before switching to goalkeeper he was a decent striker. He is really the archetype of the future goalkeeper: tall, catches rather than punches, good reflex, comfortable with his feet.
I like the sound of the SoccerBot, Pedro. If Arteta isn’t responsible for putting out fines any more, is he responsible for working this machine?
Fines = cones
Any one like the look of claude Maurice or would you prefer giving willock a go for the third striker role? Looks decent on YouTube but then so does Sanogoal.
Gonsterus He looks pretty decent, hard to judge against that opposition though. Still, it’s the kind of players we have to take a punt on, we can’t wait until they cost 60m so sometimes we have to take the chance. Looks like he can play on the wings as well. Willock is not a striker, but if you mean Eddie I’ve never been that impressed with him, maybe he’ll come good after a loan spell but I have my doubts. Like William Saliba too, the 18 yo CB from St. Etienne, Tall, fast, good with his feet, can play out… Read more »
Ziyech/Brandt + Saliba + Tierney + Claude Maurice would cost about the same as Palace wants for Zaha, 80m and would strengthen our team much more. Add in a CM like Doucoure or Partey and we’re one window away from challenging for the league again if it all works out. No reason we can’t do this if we can move some players on, don’t even have to sell any of our strikers. Chambers, Mustafi, Xhaka and Elneny would cover at least half of that. If we can’t find the remaining 60m we can pack it in already and stop pretending… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/19/manchester-city-sky-blue-smashing-of-watford-proves-football-is-broken
Great opinion piece from Jonathan Wilson on the state of Football. It has almost become like a Marvel film: assemble all the expensive players in one place and remove any peril by making them invincible. Football without excitement and regular upsets serving the giant corporate machines cannot continue in this vein; surely even the vacuous younger generations of fans will have had enough soon?
Freddie, that’s a good call. We need front line players who can come in and perform straight away but we also need strength in depth as the likes of Elneny, Iwobi and Jenks on the bench won’t fill anyone with confidence. Our problem is with both our first XI and our squad depth, which can only partly be mitigated using our youngsters.
Moray Yeah. I mean I would like a superstar winger to complete our attack but with a limited budget it’s better to take a punt on a kid with potential that can play on the wings and up front and fix our second biggest problem area after defence and replace Xhaka with someone much better, that is going to cost a bit though. Very much needed if we want to see any improvement next season. If we can get rid of Ozil and Mikhi we can add another Cam/winger to the mix. Do that now and we’ll be in a… Read more »
DB10 I wouldn’t blame him entirely. He always had what he thought was the club’s best interests at heart. You shouldn’t doubt he loved the club but he was stuck in his times and perhaps his hubris was his downfall football wise. The stadium to me has nothing on Highbury. None of the rich and comforting aura of home. The marble halls, the history. The tight pitch and the fans being right on top of it. The old clock and the north bank. We’re the north bank we’re the north bank….. The club lost its soul the day it sold… Read more »
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/780016/Arsenal-news-Abou-Diaby-revelation-brawl-Chelsea-John-Terry-YouTube/amp
This fella could have been one of the greats
He had it all.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/05/19/arsenal-hope-matteo-guendouzi-can-convince-alexis-claude-maurice-join-gunners-9601009/amp/
Going in hard this summer and rivalling Frankfurt and Norwich for our signings. Watch out city here we come
Cor Ronaldo’s mrs!!! The arse on her!! Dear lord.
Un na
Lille is also looking at him as a Pepe replacement, do we allow him to go there for 10m and then watch from the sidelines as someone else buys him for 60m in 2 years? Or do we take a punt? With the mismanagement of transfers and wages from the former administration this is the situation we’re in now.
We also have a lot of positions to fill, all of them starters so we have to be smart about it. There’s not going to be any Pepe or Zaha coming in unless we sell one of our strikers.
FL We already have one of Europe’s most promising wingers at the club- Nelson. In all seriousness I have no idea how good Maurice can be as I haven’t watched a second of him playing but with gaping holes at the back right now I’d have thought that’s where we’d be looking at first and foremost? If we are going to recruit forward, wide positions then surely we want to be looking at someone who could come in and command a starting place and make an impact sooner rather than later though with one young and promising winger already at… Read more »
Un na Even if Nelson was ready. Which he probably isn’t, we would still only have 1 winger at the club. If we can’t get rid of Ozil and we have to play him as Cam then getting an Ziyech/Brandt for one wing and a prospect on the other that can act as 3rd striker as well makes sense, we can’t depend on Auba and Laca both avoiding injury next season. I don’t see us making more than 2 max 3 additions in defence, but it’s not the only part of the team that’s weak and we’re in desperate need… Read more »
The Maurice link would make sense if what the sun is reporting is true.
The Sun claims Arsenal are open to allowing Calum Chambers, Carl Jenkinson and Reiss Nelson to move as makeweights in the deal to bring Zaha to Arsenal. That would be £40 millions plus all three players in exchange for Zaha that CP values at £80 millions.
Freddy We won’t be making two attacking midfield signings this summer I’ll put my house on it. Not unless we make some serious sales including shipping out one of our strikers. You’re proposing 3 new attacking midfielders in a side and two strikers. How much room does that leave for midfielders and defenders? It’s unlikely we will be moving ozil on this season anyway so with him iwobi and Nelson at the club and gaping holes in cmf and our backline I’d only sign winger who can come straight in and improve us immediately and focus on the more pressing… Read more »
3 new attacking midfielders? Do you not know what / means? It means either of.
We have 0 wingers. Expecting 1 cheap established player and 1 prospect is hardly reaching for the stars is it?
Valentin
Think that is bullshit. Jenkinson is not PL quality so why would they want him?
Very much doubt we’re getting rid of Nelson on a permanent basis too.
Anyways, better ways to spend our money this window than Zaha. Wouldn’t mind if we got him but think we should look elsewhere.
Freddy
I’m counting reiss nelson as a new winger so shove your / up your bum
So Brandt Nelson and whatever prospect they are looking at bringing get in makes 3 new players looking for two attacking midfield positions along with iwobi and ozil doesn’t make sense
@Freddie,
Crystal Palace wanted Jenkinson two seasons ago, they just could not agree on a financial package to tempt him away from Arsenal.
As Jenkinson is in the last year of his contract and no other London club (Spurs, WestHam, Chelsea) are interested in him, he may be tempted by the security of 3~4 years contract and we may willing to subsidize his salary for a year.
2 attacking midfield positions? How do you reckon that? The only reason we have played with 2 strikers this season is because we didn’t have a choice, doubt we’re going to continue doing that, it’s not sustainable long term. More likely to see 3 up front, 2 wingers and a striker, so that’s 2 positions where we have no one and then there’s Cam =3. Iwobi should only be back up, Nelson too atm. that leaves us with a front 6 (incl. Backups) of Ziyech/Brandt, Nelson, Maurice, Auba, Laca and Iwobi Cam is a different matter, Ideally Ozil needs to… Read more »
Freddy Have you actually been watching Arsenal this season? Swear to god, so money if you fools think your playing on your poxy Xbox Yeah it’s easy. Just sign him and him and him and him and him and him and him. You aren’t at Tesco. If he’s keeping Aubameyang and Lacazette next season he’d be a fool to drop either Both play better with the other on the field than off, as evidenced this season. We aren’t in a position to have a £50m striker sat rotting on the bench so either sell one of play both. And certainly… Read more »
More likely to see 3 up front, 2 wingers and a striker, so that’s 2 positions where we have no one and then there’s Cam =3.
How the hell do you know what’s “more likely”?
Another crystal ball mechent.
Also
We played both striker beacuse they are the best players in the team. A teenager form french lower leagues isn’t going to produce what either striker can.
As I said, we already have Nelson iwobi and ozil. Mkhitaryan too if we can’t projectile him anywhere. Shame he’s Armenian it he’d be ripe for turkey
If he’s keeping Aubameyang and Lacazette next season he’d be a fool to drop either Both play better with the other on the field than off, as evidenced this season. Yeah, because they’re the only 2 quality attackers we have atm. Sure, let’s just run them into the ground and be forced to play Eddie for a couple of months, that’s great planning ahead. You idiots complain all the time that we didn’t sign players like VVD, Salah, Hazard etc when we could afford them but have a meltdown when we’re linked to promising youngsters that are good enough to… Read more »
TLDB10 Your post @ 23:34 last night said it all. An essential read for all those fans who see Emery as the negative in all of this. You’re right, it all boils down to one thing……..a lack of competitiveness within the club. Under Wenger the winning formula disappeared. Accepting top 4 became the norm, whilst losing was tolerated as long as we maintained the status quo. On a scale of 1-10 Wenger was only a 5 in regards to being competitive. Hence his acceptance of failure and his inability to act on the bleeding obvious. A truly competitive leader would… Read more »
If we get a quality winger, it will help ease the burden on the two quality strikers we have and May be allow them more resting days and keep them fresh. Mustafi, ozil and mhiki top my “to sell” list, other than that, I don’t Mind keeping anyone else for a season longer. Get in a quality CAM. Rakitic, (experienced and maybe cheap). I get the need to flood the team with youngsters but adding in players that have quality and have big trophies helps when we have our backs to the walls. Get in a proper CB and a… Read more »
The rumors about Saliba had better be true. That the type of players we ought to be signing. That kid is super fast and is is 6-4 and is ready for the league already. He may be raw no doubt initially. Koschielny will mentor the kid.
That’s was we should have done last summer with Issa Diop
Sell Mavros and lots of academy players to facilitate it. There’s no way he’s 25 mill lion though. $8-12 million ought to be enough.
iwobi has had more than enough time and he is not doing it , I believe he was thinking about Palace before as I bet he knows his real level …we should do a swap deal ..give them Bellend ,Jenkinson and iwobi for zaha and there right back and we give them 50 mil on top