The Arsenal loans department is cranking through the gears as they race to move players out of the club so they can free some space for inbound players.
William Saliba has moved to France, picking Nice as his go-to. He’ll certainly land minutes due to their injuries, and hopefully he’ll play well so we can have him in the first-team squad next season, or sell him in the summer. I’ve never known an entire country to get so angry at a 19-year-old centre back not making it in the Premier League. The French media and their pundits have been nothing short of embarrassing when it comes to Big Will. L’Équipe claimed we were looking to sell him this month, untrue. Then, after we loaned him with no options to sell, they’re pushing that we’re maybe, possibly, loaning him the whole of next season. Why would Nice commit to that now? Why would Arsenal? Embarrassing carry-on.
What also has to be put down on the record is the abysmal handling of this. It was almost more boring than the Mesut stuff. Saliba might not be it, and that is fine, we’ve all fallen in love with Youtube super comp videos only to be disappointed. What is outrageous is that we didn’t make a decision on him until very, very late in the day, and it was so late we didn’t have a loan option for him. By price-tag alone, he is a generational talent. That is the message the world needs to know and believe. He should have been sent back to France or given a chance in the Championship so we could build him up to either start or sell. Instead, we soiled his name, and put a big BUYER BEWARE sticker on him. Very, very silly.
It’s also kind of baffling that Mikel Arteta has been sold as a top coach, but he chose not to coach William Saliba? Too rough for our Europa League squad, but Runarsson is our second choice keeper? Stronger technical leadership would not have allowed that to happen. Hopefully, the player takes his chance at Nice and we do get to see him next season.
I think the next big moves out the door will be for Mustafi and Sokratis. Those two need some game time in their legs to ensure the next deals they land are suitable. Liverpool lost last night, they could do with a center-back? There should be plenty of clubs interested in two very seasoned professionals that have both won trophies. That’d be another £180k a week off the wage bill.
There are also some rumblings that Eddie might find himself a loan move to somewhere like Leeds United. Not sure of the veracity, but it’s hard to see him landing minutes in this current moment. There are at least three players you’d rather see in that position, maybe 4 if you LOVE the Balogun hype.
I really hope that we find loans for the youngsters that aren’t finding minutes. What’s the point in keeping Willock if he doesn’t play in the Premier League? Same for Reiss and Cal Chambers. If they aren’t playing here, send them on loan, pump their value, then sell them in the summer.
The inbound rumblings mostly focus on Emi Buendia. The creative midfielder is way better than the Championship, but is, according to reports, happy in Norwich. Come on people, really? I’ve stayed with friends up there and I am simply not having that an Argentinian is buzzing about pints at The Fat Cat, elite as those pints might be.
If Arsenal comes a-knocking, he’d have to take the move. We’d just have to hope that he’s a Jack Grealish over a Saïd Benrahma. He created 83 chances in the league last season, those numbers can’t be ignored. ESR has made a huge impact at 19 years old, if you were a betting man, you’d say that Emi could at the very least offer what he has to the side.
We’ll see though…
Finally, LIVERPOOL lost to Southampton last night. The league is very, very tight this season. 5 wins on the bounce and you can make serious moves up the table. I think we have to accept that Hassenhutl’s side might be top 4 contenders this season. Our clash with them at the end of the month is going to be absolutely huge. We simply cannot afford to drop points against Newcastle or Palace.
Right, listen to the podcast, then, and ONLY then, can you go.
Ozil to Fenerbahce this month is apparently close 🤞
bojangles
valentine has sources?
is that the ball boy or the tea maid? no one on this blog has sources at the club aside from Pedro and even then of a limited variety
“Ozil to Fenerbahce this month is apparently close 🤞”
Someone is ready for the daily Pierre to begin
Pieere has Le-grove wired so anytime Ozil gets mentioned, the klaxon goes off on the golf course and he can show up to defend Mesut
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Good post Pedro
Need to stop cutting arteta slack though
The amount of rope Arsenal has given him to ‘learn’ is incredible
The jury is out on him
Really hope he can step up quickly
Remain doubtful
Reality appears to be we signed an inexperienced immature narcissistic coach with an oversized ego and limited ability
The sooner we put the Ozil debacle to rest, the better.
Hopefully the Ozil cult don’t then latch onto Willian as our potential saviour, if only he was given just one more chance……
“How many goals and assists would Nelson and Willock get them?“
Nobody knows is the answer, but expecting these two, or one of them to walk into a new team mid season and pick up right where a settled star player in his prime left off is wishful thinking.
Nobody knows is the answer, but expecting these two, or one of them to walk into a new team mid season and pick up right where a settled star player in his prime left off is wishful thinking.
In a weaker league. I doubt it.
When Norwich went down, Why didn’t we nip in and get Buendia then at £22m. Or did we think Xhaka/Ceballos/Elneny were the answer to our creativity?
We always do this, make no concrete moves until a target has had a great tournament or world /Euro cup., When everyone else wants them and the price has rocketed.
AFC needs a rocket up the arse.
Arteta didn’t trust Gabriel until injury/suspension to Mari/Luiz and we all accepted at that time that Gabriel has something in him,Saliba is not trusted in that same manner,he even ignored Martinelli for Eddie now we all know better
Saliba might turn out to be great or shit but until Arteta trust him we will never know
I’m afraid but Arteta’s learning from Pep is affecting him,he just believe that buying his way out of any challenge is the key but we are not Man City
Ustyno
He didn’t trust Saliba but trusted Rúnarsson. It’s just crazy. Even Mustafi, he should have got 0 game time this season.
“When Norwich went down, Why didn’t we nip in and get Buendia then at £22m.”
Many on here calling for just that, notably when the window was extended for biz between Championship and Premier league clubs after the regular window shut w/ Aouar shading Arsenal.
Ustyno
Saliba might turn out to be great or shit but until Arteta trust him we will never know”
He’s playing for Nice tomorrow, we should be able to get some idea if he wasn’t’ up to starting for us over Mustafi/Kola.
Words on the blog and China, sorry fellas but you don’t get points for spotting inconsistencies and examples of double standards in Pedro’s articles when it comes to Arteta.
It would be like bragging how many fish you caught……………after going fishing with a shotgun and the pond is a barrel.
Sal,
Too little too late, as always.
Ustyno,
Nice Vs Brest 6pm GMT see if you can find a link and see him for yourself.
This is the people you made Pedro. Children going berserk because their fm golden didn’t get the red carpet treatment at arsenal and at 19 too. Sweet
Karsa
If Nelson or Willock can do for Norwich what Buendia has done, then why not keep them and have them contribute those assists and goals for Arsenal instead and save ourselves all that money.
Sal,
“Many on here calling for just that, notably when the window was extended for biz between Championship and Premier league clubs after the regular window shut w/ Aouar shading Arsenal.”
It may be because Arteta was fixated on Aouar to the detriment of other options. That’s the same reason why we may have waited so late to go for Partey.
Nice play with brest…….Sid will be watching for sure.
I wouldn’t sell either Willock or Nelson.
Half a season in the championship would benefit the players development, which in turn would benefit Arsenal medium to longer term.
If we send them out?
It’d have to be somewhere they’ll get regular playing time.
The Championship is a good level to gain competitive experience, I’d have preferred Saliba to have gone there,
Dissenter
Maybe, no question for me Aouar’s the pick of the litter and we needed a creative more than anything else knowing Ozil was out. Understand the fixation but pretty daft to then not move onto another option with players like De Paul, Brandt and Buendia available and us rocking into the season with gaping hole.
We all saw how that worked out, only positive is that its given ESR his chance and he’s taken it well thus far. But we still need another body imo.
Are Arsenal finally getting good on field relationships on the pitch.. I always think the crucial relationships in a football team are 2 centre backs Left back -left midfield Right back – right midfield 2 centre mid And the CAM is the difference maker and links it all together. During our dismal run , we struggled in all of these areas. Holding and Gabriel struggled due to Gabriel’s impulsiveness leaving Holding isolated. Mari coming in has brought an element of calmness to our central defence …Holding looks a different, more confident player with Mari alongside him. The Tierney /Martinelli combination… Read more »
Called for buendia again and again last summer. We would be far ahead if we had him. And also I just want to clear the misconceptions about julian Brandt. He is not a washed up player like Isco and Eriksen. I want Buendia but I would be excited with Julian brandt at 25 mil too. Last season he had 7 assists and 4 goals. And he wasn’t starting in his favourite position always. They have put him at CM next to witsel, On the wing and also at CAM. For comparison he had 18 goal contributions at Bayern Leverkusen the… Read more »
After Klopp has brought up the United’s penalties record in the media it will be interesting to see if they get any cheap ones today.
When I say he doesnt put a defensive shift in, I dont mean like Ozil too. I mean he is like a regular 10. Buendia though is a monster. He does everything and he also defends like a proper CM.
Samir
He didn’t trust Saliba but trusted Rúnarsson. It’s just crazy. Even Mustafi, he should have got 0 game time this season.
Arteta, a rookie coach, no proper performance to judge by except being assistant coach to Pep G. And given Arsenal to coach. Should have started with the Arsenal B team. Zidane & Pep G were groomed and prepared that way. The inconsistent results we are seeing is what we deserve for the gross mismanagement at Arsenal.
I am not sure that Saliba will play tomorrow for Nice.
The kid has not played competitive football for 2~3 weeks if you can call U21 Premier League 2 competitive football.
He will have had no more than 1 training session with his new teammates.
The team itself is not a settle team as Nice has a new coach since the departure of Vieira. So if he starts it is really throwing him into the deep end.
One thing we can all agree on is that we have an incredibly bloated squad. I’m really not worried what we do in January because this summer is the critical window. Ideally, we would have a squad of 27 with 2 players in each position (except 3 GKs) and utility or academy players filling out the other 4 positions. Based on a 4-4-2 or a 4-2-3-1 system, it should be fairly easy to identify the moves we should be making. GK: Leno is good but Runarsson should be demoted to #3. We need a new Number 2. RB: Bellerin is… Read more »
I find a lot of talk how Gabriel is suddenly not good enough and is a poor player. He’s still adapting to our league and is still learning his trade. Apart from a few shaky moments, he’s been immense for us. Unlikely in his sending off, got a yellow cos he kicked the ball away. Yet saw the opposition player do the same a bit later with no card. He’s a quality defender. How was he POM 3 months running ( after just arriving) but he’s shit now 🤔🤔 How often have our defenders messed up, Kola, Mustafi, Holding Bellerin….… Read more »
I find a lot of talk how Gabriel is suddenly not good enough Strange..
Unlucky not unlikely 😁
Not so sure that the argument buendia isn’t any good because he is in the championship is a good one… as was grealish Robertson vardy are they not good enough? you have to look at the player as an individual and the context of that league they are in he went down with Norwich sure but the stats show that in that season they were relgated he was top three in pl for chances created… maybe we can infer with better players around him finishing the througballs he provides maybe he does a fair amount of damage, no? we then… Read more »
I have no issues with holding starting as rcb fergie had plenty of players of his level of quality as bedrocks of the team consistent reliable 7/10 near every game.
Sure there are better rcb out there but this isn’t a priority
Ozil going to fenerbache would be better than any new signing. We can finally move on from the circus. Pierre will be heart broken though.
Gabriel probably became a little too over confident after all the plaudits in the first couple of months, he started to take risks and his positional play became erratic. Sometimes it’s not about the best 2 players in central defence , it’s more about the 2 players who play best together.. That’s not to say that Gabriel has suddenly became a poor player, or that Mari is a better player. Over the next 6 months i would expect Arteta to know his best centre back pairing and his best back 4 . A settled back 4 is essential to a… Read more »
Buendia not coming in – Norwich is top of Championship and club has already declared Buendia, Aarons and Cantwell off limits in January in anticipation of coming straight back up. Besides securing the obvious creative attacking midfielder and a proper backup GK, business in the January window should be focused on subtraction. Low hanging fruit – buyout Ozil’s last 6 months (cost 8m) and get him away from the club. Kola already done. Move Sokratis, Mustafi and Luiz on at a minimum, loans or sales. Those few moves alone save 775k a week, 40m a year off the wage bill.… Read more »
Shout out to Pierre and Paulinho for quality contribution on Le Grove, always a joy to read 👏👏
@Pierre
“Sometimes it’s not about the best 2 players in central defence , it’s more about the 2 players who play best together..”
True. Wasn’t Gabriel paired with Mustafi and Kola and Luis at times. None of whom I rate. So with better players next to him, I’m confident he’ll resume putting in more MOTM performances.
I wonder whether Pedro has an assistant living in London. Le Grove has enough influence in the Arsenal community to be invited to the Pregame and post_game interviews. I know that Charles Watts from Goal attains those meetings. I am interested to hear Arteta’s response to the suggestions from all Le Grovers.
Ozil apparently moving to MLS (DC United)
“Ozil apparently moving to MLS (DC United)”
Bug eye is moving close to me
That means he’s taking a major pay cut.
fingers crossed about Ozil news. What a win that would be!
His last tweet was from Istanbul though.
I think a Turkish move is more likely, He supported Fernabache as a child and the MLS doesn’t pay that much these days.
News states Ozil in negotiations with Fenerbache too.
What is the truth?
Diss
Please order your special edition DC United ozil shirt!
Add to the Nketiah collection!
hehehe
Chris Wheatley is reporting Ozil to DC United, he is a reliable journo.
London Gunner
I have to disagree with you. When we come up against top quality pressing teams, Holding is a liability. Gabriel struggles too.
I actually think a top quality RCB is our biggest priority but only if we can find a superb ball-carrying leader. That’s a very tall ask. I agree that if that player isn’t available, then we shouldn’t settle for an average player. Holding will be fine in most games.
Dissenter you live in DC?
Sal
Southern MD, in the DC suburbs , about 22 minutes drive to the DC boundary.
Bottom line on Saliba is that if you are a footballer and you ae giving a big commitment, then the least that you deserve back from the management is that you get some kind of a commitment back. The poor lad has been left in limbo for the past six months. If the management decided that he was not ready for the Premiership then blood him in the Europa. That they left him out of the Europa squad smacks of something much less palatble. Luiz or Mustafi better centre halves. Couldn’t be. Was Emi not deserving of a no. 1… Read more »
Ozil is getting into a bidding war – hahaha
DC v Fener
Pedro Smith Rowe is 20 btw
Please leave ozil just so Pierre can cry in his pillow
Buendia rumours are a total scam.
1) Norwich looking good for promotion
2) Arsenal are not going to spend much in January
3) He is under contract until 2024.
Do the hands count for offside ?
If Ozil leaves it’ll be a miracle.
The League Cup semis is only one leg this season?
Pedro’s getting really worried: if Ozil leaves then that would cause a 40% reduction in overall posts and traffic on Le Grove.
Pierre’s Ozil posts alone contribute to 30% of total traffic on here.
Bacary
We could always buy Buendia for £30 million or so and loan him back to Norwich for the next couple of years….that might work for Norwich…
Words – are you serious? why would we buy a player to loan out for 2 years. I get doing it to the end of the season for a reduced or deferred fee. But 2 years? we might as well burn £30 million in notes in the centre circle
Sad news on Colin Bell RIP – one of the greats whose career cruelly cut short by that animal Martin Buchan
Apparently City named one of their stands after him but it became known as the Bell End so they changed it! True story so my mate tells me
Northbanker
😀 not being serious mate
We could always buy Buendia for £30 million or so and loan him back to Norwich for the next couple of years….that might work for Norwich… ________ Hahaha Exactly Words… Trust the Process. How is Le Grove doing today? Saliba situation is just plain weird. .. add it to the list of bizarre Arsenal dealings over the years. Looks like we are going all Park Chu- Young on Saliba. Or Joel Campbell… Fight like hell to get a highly rated young player then never or barely ever play them or send them off to loan purgatory. Pedro did say …… Read more »
The current winning run has alleviated pressure for new signings. The way things are shaping the only pressing need is a decent back-up GK. In any case it would have been a sell-to-buy policy
The main focus will be to get rid of unwanted players. They clutter-up the dressing-room and are bad for morale. I hope Ozil heads the list of departers. Right now, who wants to get rid of Laca? Nobody. And Auba will hit form again. And those who doubt Nketiah will be proven wrong.He is a natural instinctive goal poacher.
Middy
I fear even Sherlock Holmes wouldn’t be able to truly understand Arsenal even
after years of forensic analysis of the Park Chu Young mystery.
Ozil is eligible to negotiate with any team now. I bet he is setting up his new contract for Summer. MLS won’t resume until Summer anyway.
Since Solskjaer isn’t dropping De Gea for Henderson, and Henderson wants first team football to become England’s number 1, I’d test United’s resolve with a £20m offer.
Performed wonders for newly promoted Sheffield Utd last season and he has significant potential.
Why would Henderson leave man U as second gk and come to us as second gk?
Pedro All for getting rid of Musti/Sok and actually did think of Liverpool taking one of them. They are desperate for a CB and whatever else you can say about them they are experienced and PL adapted. Just depends if we would feel like doing a favor to a rival? Could we overtake Liverpool in this weird season?? Either way, hope they are out the door soon enough and take Mesut with them. Can’t get on board with loaning out Chambers though. With Saliba, Kola, Musti and Sok all gone that would leave only Holding as a natural right sided… Read more »
For me he is more reliable than Leno and maybe would come to Arsenal if he was first choice, and sometimes if you want to be back amongst the best you have to take a punt.
It’s not even a risky signing, he is homegrown and PL quality.
We could at least enquire, the worst that happens is they say no, but Henderson isn’t going to sit on the bench forever.
Isn’t Henderson supposedly on 100k weekly?
He’s United starting goal keeper in waiting . There’s no way he’s leaving them to come to us.
Henderson was performing well but was also guilty of some awful clanger last season. I am not convinced that he would be an upgrade to Leno.
Between the high price, the high salary and not the huge increase in quality (if any), getting him would not make sense.
I like Henderson but assuming our funds are limited due to previous catastrophic transfer decisions, I would rather us spend 3-5m on an experienced back-up keeper, preferably one with some Premier League experience.
It’s only an idea.
Let’s just rule out the notion that Arsenal ever show any real ambition, as illustrated by you all rubbishing the buying of a talented young English goalkeeper.
De Gea has shown United a lot of loyalty and doesn’t look like he is being dropped any time soon, which is a reflection of his quality, not a slight on Henderson’s ability.
He practically kept Sheffield Utd out of a relegation scrap last season.
Henderson probably wouldn’t even entertain a move to Arsenal, but it’s probably the only thing that would compensate selling Martinez.
“De Gea has shown United a lot of loyalty”
… in exchange for the highest goalie wages
De Gea isn’t among the top 5 goal keepers in the league.
“It’s also kind of baffling that Mikel Arteta has been sold as a top coach, but he chose not to coach William Saliba?”
Most people (well at least here) bought that off you Pedro
It’s much harder to teach shit players to be great than world class players like Sterling who was already near the top of the game.
Now I’m not saying Saliba is shit, but there are definitely some players in our squad that are, hence our worst start to the season with a man who can’t coach to the required level at the helm.
Dissenter
Based on your opinion.
He was United’s player of the year three or four years running, and he’s still Spain’s first choice so he’s got a few miles on the clock yet.
United would have to sell De Gea for Henderson to become first choice, and I doubt Ole would be brave enough to chance those consequences. It would be brave of any manager to sanction the sale of De Gea.
Jp, “We’ve not handled the situation well so far but we paid the money because we thought he was a generational talent. Someone who can be a mainstay in the team for the next 10-12 years. As long as he maximises his potential what does it matter if he breaks into our first team now or in a years time?” The thing with this is that it wasn’t this regime that purchased him. It was Raul (as well as Emery most likely being on board bringing him into the team when we returned from loan). Arteta just doesn’t rate him… Read more »
Herbs Army
De Gea hasn’t been a top goalie for at least three seasons
All we do here is render opinion that are all subjective of course.
Zacharse
“I hope to see some smart moves in the window and that if hes the real deal he’ll show that his promotion has effectively ended the backroom incompetence- or at least is phasing it out”
I’ve posted the link so many times here of Vinai saying on Arteta’s promotion that in fact Arteta was working above his pay grade from when he first came to the club.
I don’t think his promotion changed jack shit apart from the fact he’s now technically on par with edu in title.
Dissenter
It doesn’t really bother me whether De Gea is rated, I just see a situation at Utd where a potentially top quality English goalkeeper wants first team football, and even after a really good season on loan in the PL where his performances got rave reviews, he is still behind De Gea in the pecking order.
If they can buy RvP from us, we should buy Henderson from them.
But of course, I’m painfully aware it will never happen.
Herbs Army
We both know it won’t happen so there’s that.
We just need to get an older premier league goalie on the way out just like Spuds got Joe Hart as back up goalie.
There has been a lot of discussion about Saliba most of which is frankly opinion with little substance. Let’s be totally honest he has yet to play in the first team and by all accounts his performance level even when playing for the U23s was not exactly overwhelming. This may be down to a variety of reasons including reference to mother’s death and not settling in quickly to a strange country. The fact is that selecting a young Centre Back when he is not playing particularly well in the first team would be “high risk”. We have a lot of… Read more »
“The idea that Arteta is prejudiced or a poor judge of young players is ridiculous when most” Is this the same guy who benched Martinelli for Eddie we’re talking about? Not exactly the only example of poor judgement of player ability either. Saliba has by all accounts been much better than Mari when they played together in the u23s and he’s been doing ok thus far. From any angle you look at it it’s been poorly handled. He faced teams like PSG and Lyon the last 2 years and played in Europa last year, no way he couldn’t have played… Read more »
ES ” There has been a lot of discussion about Saliba most of which is frankly opinion with little substance. …” Quote from Ursea Nice manager below; “William is a player with a lot of personality, a personality that didn’t waste any time in revealing himself. With what he showed before leaving for England, honestly, talk about his age, I don’t even take that into account. Either a player is good or not, that is what interests me. It is not easy to succeed in St Étienne’s defence, no matter your age.” He might have seen him play a few… Read more »
Fred
for sure there was something weird going on with this Saliba thing.
Seems vendetta ish to me, but who knows.
maybe Saliba was caught talking shit about mike and Xhaka ratted him out?
Xhaka being Mikes pet and all….
No seriously, its just weird
Words on a Blog
We could always buy Buendia for £30 million or so and loan him back to Norwich for the next couple of years….that might work for Norwich…”
Looks likely scenario with our Ketchup Sauce , thinking how American chop souyey originated with all all left overs scrapped from plates and Arteta brand dollops mixed in.
Why is that we talk about someone like Nicolas Pepe after his arrival and suggest he might need time to adapt to English football, yet expect Saliba to be ready when he’s far less experienced in terms of top flight appearances? Especially when he’s a defender and, like it not, their mistakes are scrutinised more heavily because they’re usually much more costly. A winger fluffs a chance or fails to beat a man, he’s given encouragement to do it again and try again. A centre-half who cocks up the offside trap, doesn’t win a header or mark his man costs… Read more »
Don’t worry, we’ll all be able to see for ourselves sooner or later, just how bad he is. Now that he’s been freed from prison. 😆
Which will help us see how good a judge of talent Mikel actually is, cos so far ;
” There has been a lot of discussion about Arteta’s ability most of which is frankly opinion with little
substance. …”
Freddie L
Totally agree. Looks there are lot of blinkered opinions who make judgement based on what Arteta says. In banana Republic too mis – information too is served consistently and the lemmings think like how their Tin Pot Dictator would want them to think.
Yes we saw Saliba for few minutes in pre season friendly immediately after he joined and ,yes he gave away the ball in headers. Not enough to judge considering circumstances and he was in mourning. But more than enough to serve as an alibi for Our Tin Pot dictator after Saliba differs with him.
Chi
Pepe will never make it in England or at least with us.
He is a one trick pony incapable of changing his style of play to suit the team needs.
Pepe always does a Pepe.
Sell this summer please
Chi
Hard to adapt if you never play, at all. Not even in the cups.
No one would have complained if he didn’t get much playing time in the PL but were playing fa, league and Europa games.
It’s the complete omission of someone labeled a generational talent, with decent senior experience, that’s so baffling.
also a big NO to brandt this window. Just not impressed with him and fail to see how he can help us and in what position too
Surely Saliba is a better goalkeeper than Runarsson? I reckon I probably am. Should we not keep Saliba around the club in case of injury to Leno?
Seems like a good time to be doubling Saliba’s salary too…
lets hope Saliba has some storming performances with Nice. However good he is or not, Arteta has dealt with the matter incompetently by simply not including him and then leaving him to languish in u23s. This was totally disrespectful.
It’s probably another irreparable relationship with the Despot in charge. Stan should be asking questions of MA as to why he treated his £28m investment in this way.
Northbanker
For sure, that is a lot of money to let sit and do nothing with, especially with the Ozil debaucle.
Mike certainly has his favorites. Seems he doesnt care much for young French players
Buendia is not mbappe, he has a price which if met will get him
It’s only Norwich lol. If they say 40m, you offer 25m + players and there’s every chance a deal is possible. Not saying it’s going to happen but it’s hardly some long shot. It only matters if arsenal have the will to make it happen, nothing else
Even if ozil leaves for free, that’s how much saved off our expenses? Add kola, sok and mustafi to whatever our existing available cash is and you can probably afford buendia outright, let alone if we included a player to sweeten the deal
Also if we make a bid buendia will ask to leave and push for it. Norwich don’t have much serious leverage
China
Ive been saying all along, money talks. Who cares where Norwich stand in the table.
The player also has some say, dont they? I mean he is 24 and not a spring chicken. This could be a career defining move in so many ways.
He will sit quietly? Please….
Some one this board think that there is no way we get him but I agree, lets chase hard in the beginning and make a strong bid versus the late in the window nickle and diming
Haha its Norwich. sheesh