ARSENAL SIGN EDDIE TO 5 YEARS, SUMMER OFF TO A FLYING START

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Writing about Arsenal post-season is really tough for the first few weeks. It’s like finishing a boxing match (I’ve never fought a boxing match). You’ve prepped, fought all the rounds, now it’s over (I probably got knocked out) and you have to work out what’s next.

Thankfully, this writer numbness is being perked up by some good news coming out the club.

Before we get to that, let’s talk about some weird news, Wolves are apparently planning legal action against Sau Paulo over the transfer of Marquinhos to Arsenal. Brazilian contracts and legal sounds like a minefield, I have no idea about the veracity of the rumour, but I do feel good that Wolves were looking at the player because that means there’s a good chance the player is talented.

The BIG news is that Eddie has signed a deal. Am I taking this news as a BIG W for the Le Grove platform? You’re damn right I am.  This is a great bit of progress for many reasons. There are always a bunch of whingers that complain about strategic moves like this, but you have to be pragmatic about these things, and, as always, have a bit of vision.

Eddie is 22 years old, there are almost no strikers of that age in the Premier League. The one that was hot on the lips of everyone in January was Armando Broja of Chelsea. His record? 2300 minutes, 11 goals. Eddie played half the minutes and delivered 10 goals for the season. If his name was Ediano Nkeitiovic and he was playing in the Bosnian First Division and we’d just pinched him from Salzburg, fans would be running around losing their minds with excitement. Everyone is a Football Manager merchant these days, they prefer the unknown, and they miss absolute obvious talents that we have at the club.

Look at those percentiles. They are outrageous. These numbers were racked up after he’d been cast aside by Arteta all season. He could have dropped his level, he could have sulked like Nico, he could have taken a move to Germany or another Premier League club. But he didn’t, he took his chance, played really well, and proved the doubters wrong.

There’s some angst over the money, but that’s the cost of botching contracts. Here’s the thing, Eddie just wants to play, if he doesn’t get minutes, he’ll go somewhere else. £100k a week isn’t going to frighten anyone off. What I am interested to know is what the penny pinchers think is a fairer deal? £85k? £75k? Where are we going with a satisfactory number here?

The bigger picture for me is: where are else are we getting a striker of his caliber? At what expense?

Tammy Abraham, a striker we all mostly love, played 400 more minutes for Chelsea last season and managed 1 more Premier League goal than him and 1 more total over the season. He moved to Roma for £40m. There are two lessons here, firstly, get some perspective on what young strikers are capable of, secondly, the cost of finding a suitable replacement would be expensive, likely foreign, and likely come with a lot of risk. Remember, the mighty Patson Daka cost £23m and he delivered a massive 11 goals this season off double the minutes of Eddie. How many were begging to sign him last summer?

Finally, my last point, Gabriel Jesus is being heavily linked to us, he has scored 8 Premier League goals this season in 28 appearances, 4 of which came in one game… and the fans criticising the Eddie signing are cool with us dropping £55m on him? A striker that couldn’t break 10 Premier League goals in the most prolific chance creation machine in history seems like a red flag to me, but we’ll see. Eddie scored his Premier League goals off less xG, a much better goal per minutes ratio, in a depleted team,  with an overall chance conversion rate 5% better. Our newly signed striker has also scored his 11 goals in second-string teams or first teams that have been heavily depleted. Jesus has 13 goals off more than double the minutes.

The message I’ve heard since last year about Eddie is he’s a top talent and if he were to leave us, we would regret it, because he will be 20 goal a season striker somewhere in the Premier League. Part of his draw in training is that he nearly always hits the target, a gift in a side that doesn’t do that enough in the league. Let’s see how that info pans out, regardless, I am very happy that we have secured his future, the kid deserves his deal.

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Danny S

The worry isn’t signing Eddie on a new 100k deal. The worry is Arteta and how he will use him. The hope is Arteta plays to his strengths and Eddie doesn’t have to constantly chase down his chances.
But i fear there will be crossing once KT is back and lots of it and it’ll all just sail over little Ediies head like it did laca and Auba.

Samesong

Question for you guys

Would coutinho of got us over the line for CL?

Danny S

As a player or a manager? Cause probably yes for both.

The Real Vieira Lynn

HG

you spoke specifically of the Hammer fixture, so don’t try to move your evaluation goalposts on the fly…btw how would one exactly best compare a Striker with less than two handfuls of PL starts to those who have regularly started in Europe…this is where the stats muppets come in and shine up a turd…it’s called context

(PS just so there’s no misunderstanding I’m in no way calling Eddie a turd, as I truly like the young man)

The Real Vieira Lynn

Mr. Serge…yes

Buckagh

Bankz
Your post has a lot of validity, but it definitely sounds like you need a sabbatical from Arsenal,

Mr Serge

Love it nice one lol
I was worried that you where just a doom monger
I get some people are upset because we literally fell at the last hurdle personally I was upset for 10 days plus about it, gotta look at the positives now and improve our weaknesses and go again,

englandsbest

Brian Muff

Like I said, Pedro deserves a medal.

The Real Vieira Lynn

nowadays seemingly everyone gets a participation medal

Nigel Tufnel

I know Pedro seems like an apologist for the regime sometimes, but the truth is, things are not nearly as bad as many of you portray. You will always be able to point out mistakes by the club. So could I, going back many years. Ignoring the positives is what gives the haters away. You basically hate the owners or Arteta, and everything is twisted negative and doom for you. I don’t hate the owners, because they’re not the worst, even if they’re far from the best. I don’t hate Arteta at all, even though I criticize him a lot… Read more »

Graham62

Arsenal finished 5th with the youngest team in the league
I repeat, Arsenal finished 5th with the youngest team in the league.
Sorry, I’m trying to convince myself that we actually had a great season and everything points for a rosey future under our generational leader.

I’m going to sleep on this and see how I feel in the morning.

Graham62

Nigel

There you go using the “hate” word again.
No one, who is anti-Arteta, hates him.
Try and get that into your head.
We just think he’s not good enough.
Night night!

DUIFG

Fair play you guys getting paid.

I’m concerned however by the lack of diversity of opionion amongst the main podcasters, yourself , av , arse. Basically on the same hymn page. Are you all aligned? Or is it just a band of men talking together talking the same stuff?

Saliba out, Pepe put , ozil out guen out. Basically whoever arteta casts aside is a bad apple. I don’t buy it, do we have a generational manager , no. Is he competent yes. We haven’t got a klopp or pep that for sure.

The Real Vieira Lynn

Mr. Serge here’s the most frustrating part of what I like to call the Arsenal dilemma, after exhausting considerable energy trying to get our once-distinguished former manager off the books, my greatest fear was that this organization, with our absentee landlord firmly in the catbird seat, wouldn’t have a definitive plan in place, even though we had the post-Fergie blueprint of what not to do and ample time to prepare, considering that Wenger had been living on borrowed time for the better part of a half decade so instead of having our shit in order we make a knee-jerk hiring… Read more »

Naija+soccer

Raptora When you break it down like that it does seem like he’s missing a certain something that’s needed. For example towards the end of the season I noticed most of his passes, can be quite straightforward. Guys like Fabregas and Ozil had that ability to pull off through-balls on a regular basis. I would like to see him do that more often. I like that he has a relationship with Saka on the right though. Saka was lonely there at the beginning of the season. So I love their combo but it will get better if Odegaard can learn… Read more »

EdTheREd

Morata might be coming. Elite?

Naija+soccer

*Saka

Killroy-TM

Nigel As already stated there is a problem with you identifying what is hatred and what is not and I am trying to make it simple. There are those of us that are firmly in the camp that the execs and their leadership are shitty and they should never be at a club as big as Arsenal. Then there are those who go along with whatever is decided by the individuals in the decision making quarters and they tolerate the direction the club is taken hoping for the best. Then there are those who see no errors in what club… Read more »

InsideRight

Pedro – “Marko, the average age of the Unai Emery squad was 26.75 which is nearly 3 seasons worth of additional experience. When our squad is that average age, it’ll be competing for titles.”

What makes you think our players will stick around that long as their contracts get release clauses added and better sides offer them the chance of titles and cups?

Naija+soccer

Killroy

Which one of the three groups do you belong to haha ?

Liam O'Baoghill

Absolutely over the moon that we signed Eddie up!!! What a great bit of business!

englandsbest

The RealVeira ynn
I believe you just wrote the three longest ever sentences in a single post. I tried hard, but I couldn’t make sense of any of them.

Dissenter

Pedro
Were you “shiting on Arsenal” when you were relentlessly critiquing Wenger?
Amazing how you’ve moved from the back benches to become the pro-establishment chief whip of Arsenal.
Is it possible for one to like the current policy but distrust Arteta, same way some think the current policy is bonkers but are sticking around because of Arteta
You’re the all -or-none guy these days

Sometimes you whale on posters for merely saying what you’ve alluded to in the Arsenal Opinion video blog

EdTheREd

Yes, I don’t understand why is The Project so closely tied with Arteta. Projects, systems, call them what you want, are built in such way that they don’t collapse if you take one cog out of it. That’s how Brentford operates. For all the praise Thomas Frank’s been getting, he’s easily replaceable.

BTW after reading a bit more about it, this Morata thing looks like it will happen. Quick look at his stats over past 5-6 seasons tells us we would be getting a striker who scores roughly a goal every three games.

The Real Vieira Lynn

Englandsbest

try getting out your reading ruler little guy

Naija+soccer

Don’t want Morata at all. Underwhelming signing at best. But if we are getting Gnabry/Gakpo, while adding 2 proper midfielders then I m game.

Naija+soccer

Really want us to focus in the attacking positions this summer. We ve started proper with extending Eddie. Looking forward to seeing how our attack improves under Arteta next season.

The Real Vieira Lynn

Don’t think there’s any truth to this Morata rumour, but would anyone REALLY be surprised if this were to happen…if you say yes, then you’ve gone full Memento and you should seek some professional assistance asap

Killroy-TM

@Naija

Some of these titles are courtesy of Almunia whose is a master at satire.

Edu – Bumbling Brazilian buffoon / Deal making dunce / Director Of Fantasy
MA – Pedestrian paced Everton reject / Pep’s Gimp / Bumteta / Basque Bantamweight
Josh – Sniveling Daddy’s boy

All together they are the “Brotherhood of Arsenal’s Sincere Trusted And Really Dedicated Servants” the (B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S)

Does that help with figuring out which group I fall into 😆

alexanderhenry

Pedro Overall, I’m with you. For where arsenal fc is at right now, 5th is perfectly acceptabel.. But to quote: ‘the average age of the Unai Emery squad was 26.75 which is nearly 3 seasons worth of additional experience. When our squad is that average age, it’ll be competing for titles.’ It really doesn’t work like that. Young players don’t necessarily improve in an exponential way, or in fact, at all. We have promising young players but it isn’t a given that they’ll become great players over the next few years. Most great players are great or nearly great from… Read more »

Nigel Tufnel

Graham62,
I take you at your word that you don’t hate Arteta,……..

but if you’ve been reading legrove for a couple years, daily, and you think SOME of these angry posters aren’t personally obsessed with,, and hate the guy, then you are naive.

Emiratesstroller

I have reviewed the contracts expiry dates which have been published by Transfermarkt. Three players had contracts which expire this summer. Elneny has now penned a new one year contract with further year extension. Nketiah will by all accounts is signing a new contract. So the only player whose contract will expire this summer and will not be renewed is Lacazette. Two players have contracts which expire in 2023. These are Elneny and Leno. It is expected that Leno will leave this summer. Moving on we have got eight players whose contracts expire in 2024. These are Okonkwo, Holding*,Saliba,Soares,Saka,Xhaka*,Martinelli* and… Read more »

LoveSausage

Both Mo and Eddie are good signings that ensure we’ll have money to spend on more critical acquisitions. I just hope that we for once go for the obvious solutions to obvious problems instead of trying to be the smartest kid in the class. Players like Tielemans, Bissouma, and Gnabry all have one year left on their contracts and would probably be gettable for under 30M each. I’m sure there are others in similar positions out there. We could bring in 2-3 very good players and still have money over for a top ST signing.

Freddie Ljungberg

Memphis Depay and Moussa Dembele are in the same situation, linked for 21 and 25m respectively.

Dembele fits the physical profile we want and scored 21 goals in France this season, stillbonly 25 years old. Wanted him before he went to Fulham but haven’t really followed him that much since tbh.

If we can’t shop in the top tier there’s still decent options out there.

raptora

Maitland-Niles has 1 year left on his deal. Chances are we won’t see even a dime from the 20m we could have cashed in 2 years ago. Refused to sell him why? To bench him and loan him?! Great stuff.

raptora

The above could repeat with Eddie as well btw.

Leedsgunner

Fiorentina, despite being awash with money from the Vlahović deal was trying to change the terms of the options to buy at the last minute for Lucas Torreira? I’m sorry but that is so so pathetic. We also gave them to pay this fee over six payments too… and they were still trying to renegotiate this. Like I said, that’s really really poor. We’re talking about £12.5m here, not £120m. Perhaps we can see if Bologna would be interested in him? It’s clear that Lucas Torreira loves playing in Serie A. Perhaps we can arrange a straight swap for Aaron… Read more »

Leedsgunner

Last summer we were all expected to lose Flo Balogun and Eddie Nketiah for nothing.

Flo Balogun signed up to trust the process.
Eddie Nketiah now has signed up too.
Khayon Edwards has signed up.

Our young talented attackers all trust Arteta and see something… perhaps it’s time we trust them too?

Tom

“I get some people are upset because we literally fell at the last hurdle “

Did we , fall at the last hurdle?
I think we were 6 points up on Spurs with a game in hand on March 15th.

Finished 2 points down in May.

Goobergooner

I’ve succumbed to the negativity police.

After careful introspection; and considering the amateur hour in all roles in management at the club; and the obvious flaws of our head coach/manager, we have definitely over achieved.

Fighting for 4th is Artetas max level. He absolutely slipped up, but thank goodness that he only needed 5th to achieve our goals.

Arteta has finally moved his own needle, and went from under achieving horribly to over achieving, with the youngest team in the world, in the space of one season.

Give me some year 2 action already

Goobergooner

Tom,

I’d class that as a bottle job of the highest order.

Feels of Brendan Rogers last season and apparently spurs every other season (yet they have finished above us in 6 straight seasons).

Goobergooner

The Maitland Niles saga is one of the strangest ones of the Arteta era.

We could have actually made money from him, or we could have utilised him as a squad option which he fulfilled to a decent enough level when he did play for us.

Instead like rap says, not a single dime will be seen and we weakened our squad in the same instance.

Pure amateur bs to couple with all the other players we haven’t made a cent from due to managerial incompetencies

The Real Vieira Lynn

for anyone who’s been heaping plaudits on our club for throwing big monies in Eddie’s direction please keep in mind a couple of things…firstly, it’s highly unlikely that this club would fork out that kind of coin for him to be a second option Striker, so if you’re expecting us to sign a top-notch frontman in this window you will likely be left holding your dick…secondly, if they do dip back into the market to provide some much-needed Striker depth, don’t be surprised if that individual is a rather uninspiring option, like Morata, who has never amassed more than 15… Read more »

China1

Hard pass on morata

I haven’t followed him recently but recall him being notoriously prone to missing sitters. Searched on YouTube and found that are entire compilations of him missing good chances and every one of the comments moaning about the same.

I’m fine with that profile of player but if he can’t be trusted to take chances regularly then we’re wasting our money

Habesha Gooner

Morata’s agent is trying to get him a move. Since we have no strikers, the link makes sense. They are just linking Arsenal to say we have an offer. Other than that it is just clickbait.

Jesus, Abraham, or Darwin Nunez. And if all of these fail I think we will go for Johnathan David.

Leedsgunner

Habesha

Jonathan David is a decent fail safe…attribute wise he is like bringing in a younger version of Lacazette but with plenty of goals… he is very very adaptable as well.

Yes I know his output has dropped off recently but on the positive side it should lower his asking price quite a bit.

Killroy-TM

Wolves ‘seeking legal action’ over Arsenal’s controversial Marquinhos transfer “According to Yahoo Sports in Brazil, Wolves had agreed a pre-contract agreement with Marquinhos. It’s claimed Wolves have approached a legal firm in Brazil to take action against the player for allegedly breaking the deal to join the Gunners. As reported by the Daily Mail, legal action against Arsenal and Sao Paulo are their other options. The Mail’s report adds that Marquinhos’ contract is due to end on July 12, with his new contract at Wolves set to start on July 14.” As I understand it the Gunners are believed to… Read more »

China1

Kilroy wtf absolute chaos lol

Anyway I hope we get him and the price including legal action isn’t high

Who knows tho to what extent each party is to blame. I guess for now the only one we can be sure did wrong is the player/his representatives if they agreed a contract with wolves then another with arsenal.

But it’s not clear yet whether arsenal were made aware or sao Paolo

Lol that sao paolo illegally signed him on a 5 year deal and all that mess as well tho. Jeez this is like an East Enders story

China1

‘OI! Marquinhos! you already gone signed a contract wiv wolves!’

‘Ow leave it aaaht Dot you old spiv. Wots it got to do wiv u? If I wanna sign wiv aahsenal, I’ll sign wiv aahsenal’

Terraloon

Kilroy. As I understand it the Gunners are believed to have agreed a £2.5mill transfer with Sao Paulo because the player would have left otherwise on a free since the 5 year contract that he signed is not valid because of the players age it can only be 3 years. If and a big if the story is correct then should Wolves lodge a complaint then it will likely get messy I believe all transfers and that includes pre contract agreements should be lodged on the TMS at FIFA . That system wasn’t in existence when Chelsea in effect made… Read more »

China1

Man I miss the old Harry hills tv burp reviews of Eastenders. The Christmas special was the best where he showed how happy they all were on Christmas Day and it was like a 3 min compilation of everyone shouting LEAVE IT AAAHT at each other followed by a long compilation of people sighing unhappily 😂😂😂😂

Goobergooner

If tets had just given Eddie a chance sooner, he would have signed well before now and been on a way lower wage.

That’s all there is to it

Goobergooner

In saying all that, I’m glad elneny and Eddie are staying. It’s been mentioned a lot that another back up striker would have cost a transfer fee as well as approximately the same wages we will be giving Eddie, so it still works out good value. All the young guns will now hopefully sign up to new, upgraded deals and be our core for seasons to come or pull in massive fees. (I’d prefer the former). For me, elneny staying means that a few options may play out. Either xhaka stays but gets demoted, and Lakonga goes on loan, or;… Read more »

Terraloon

Goober

Do you think that the budget will justify £100+ k a week on a back up ?

Now if they were spending say £10 million on say £50k a week then yep a back up but the sort of sum being talked about not sure the player will see himself as a back up

Habesha Gooner

Leeds
He will be an underwhelming signing considering the names that we have been linked with. But a Name can only get you so far. We won’t know for sure if anyone of them can perform for us.

I hope we don’t go for DCL though. Jesus would be fantastic. If not Darwin Nunez. But a lot of clubs want a CF. United, Bayern, may be Real Madrid too. So it will be a scramble to get one.

Mr Serge

Morata would be a joke signing surely it’s just agent talk to get juve to cough up, the guy is shite

EdTheREd

We all know Morata’s not the type of striker we need IF we’re serious about challenging for Top4/PL Title in next couple of seasons. But…he’s Spanish international who somehow always plays for big clubs. CL winner too. At this point we need to realise couple of thing: Arsenal have regressed in attack ever since Arteta took over, there’s 2 1/2 seasons worth of stats to back that statement up. And the second thing is, the only forward player Arteta brought to Arsenal was Willian. We simply don’t know what type of strikers our manager is keen on. So, as deflating… Read more »

Kalle

Ed.

Well said.

Dissenter

Regarding the Marqunous story
It’s called a ‘pre-contract’ for a reason. It’s not as legally binding as an actual contract. Legally he can’t sign an active football contract while contacted to someone else.

Wolves don’t have a strong case tbh.

InsideRight

Pedro – “InsideRight, if we make top 4 next season, why wouldn’t they stick around?”

Because there is a big difference between qualifying to play in the CL, and winning the thing and winning domestic titles. A lot of players are more ambitious than just wanting to play in the CL.

Leftside

I would love for us to bring Serge back to the carpet. A potential front three of Serge, Jesus and Saka will get goals, far more than we have put up for the previous two seasons.

Graham62

Saka is one of the hottest properties in world football, he’s also a marketing mans dream.
The top clubs will be sniffing around, aren’t they doing that already, should Arsenal fail to get top 4 next season.
World Cup year will expose him even more.
The pressure will be on Arteta to deliver next season.
No more excuses please.

Graham62

If Arteta had played Eddie sooner, we would definitely have qualified for CL.

Terraloon

Dissenter

Regarding the Marqunous story
It’s called a ‘pre-contract’ for a reason. It’s not as legally binding as an actual contract. Legally he can’t sign an active football contract while contacted to someone else.Wolves don’t have a strong case tbh.

TO a degree that’s right but if the pre contract agreement includes things like length of contract, sums to be paid and the like then it is binding.

englandsbest

The Real Vera Yinn

Two more sentences of extreme length and zero sense. A clear case of logorrhea.

Leedsgunner

I’m amazed at how harshly some people are writing off Edu with respect to this young Brazilian player Marquinhos… based on what?!? On what the papers say? Yeah because the mainstream media has always been fair to the Arsenal right?!? Give me a break. We’re just being painted as incompetent and bumbling and naive… and the “bad guys” and some of us are swallowing it hook line and sinker. We don’t have all the facts to make such sweeping judgments. I’m not a sports lawyer but a pre contract means exactly that and I don’t understand why Wolves are in… Read more »

Dissenter

Terraloon
The pre-contract wasn’t done in the UK
It was done in Brazil where contract law is murky,. These players have large entourages who talk to everyone.
A pre-contract doesn’t carry the same gravitas in most jurisdictions but it’s all subjective.
In Texas for example, even a verbal contract has significant standing so long as it’s witnessed.

Emiratesstroller

Terraloon and Dissenter Tim Lewis sits on the Board of Arsenal as a Non Executive Director. He is a senior partner at Clifford Chance one of this country’s largest firms of solicitors. I am pretty sure that he has an oversight of contracts signed by Arsenal. So I think that it is highly unlikely that the club has done anything improper in their handling of the contract with Marquinhos and Sao Paulo. I doubt that Wolves can seek compensation from Arsenal or for that matter Sao Paulo. The only person that they can sue is Marquinhos if they have a… Read more »

InsideRight

Pre contracts can be broken. Various legal talking heads describe them as “a non-binding record of the terms the future contract will take”. The purpose of most pre-contracts is to state the “intent” or “understanding” of the parties, rather than to establish “legal relations”. But it is possible that they can be held as legally binding, it all depends on the interpretation of the wording within the pre-contract document. I just looked over the Brittain example where he signed a pre-contract with St Johnstone, but later said he was staying at Ross County, who duly registered him as their player… Read more »

Terraloon

Inside Right Pre contracts can be broken. Various legal talking heads describe them as “a non-binding record of the terms the future contract will take”. The purpose of most pre-contracts is to state the “intent” or “understanding” of the parties, rather than to establish “legal relations”. But it is possible that they can be held as legally binding, it all depends on the interpretation of the wording within the pre-contract document. That in effect is what I have been saying. Football contracts particularly when they straddle two International FAs are extremely complex but as far as football employment they are… Read more »

InsideRight

Terraloon, you said it with much more panache 😁

Colney Gooner

englandsbest 👏……….Vera Yinn / Logorrhea……brilliant!

Leedsgunner

Tim Lewis is an important member of the board and I’m sure he has the owners’ ear but I’m sure our player contracts and connected matters are handled by Richard Garlick. No doubt Lewis would be a sounding board if Garlick wanted a second opinion.

Paulie

Nketia is a good signing, he’s looking good but Jesus will be an outrageous waste of money. He’s a decent player but not an elite top player and I can’t believe we’re going to sign him.

Mr Serge

robert pires love th big no for a multi title winning player that can play in multiple positions lol
some fans

Spanishdave

Spence going to Spurs?
Great full back which we need , get rid of our crocks.
Eddy will be another expensive failure the money will go to his head.

Chris

Zinchenko is a very good player but what would be going on with him where City are looking to sell? Are they going in for Cucurella as was rumoured?

Terraloon

Inside

Terraloon, you said it with much more panache 😁

You smooth talking ……

Tom

“I’d class that as a bottle job of the highest order. Feels of Brendan Rogers last season and apparently spurs every other season (yet they have finished above us in 6 straight seasons).” —————- Karma is a bitch, as they say. Or was it the Legrove curse maybe? At least when we ( well, some of us) spent weeks , if not months laughing at Rodgers ”blowing” the CL, he did it on zero , goose egg, zilch, nada transfer net spend and with the eighth highest wage bill, while blooding in a twenty year old CB who’s doubled(almost) his… Read more »

raptora

Tom,
You’re a rockstar!

Tom

raptora, one person’s rockstar is another’s bed wetter

Mr Serge

Can you be a bedwetting rockstar ,?

Tom

Considering Mick Jagger is 78………..it’s a high possibility

Ishola70

Eddie N could suprise some again. Not a player to be written off which I was guilty of in the past. But there is stll a lingering doubt that he will become top class. I prefer a striker that has a more all round game than Eddie rather than just this poacher style like hold up play, bringing others into play, combination play as well as scoring goals but I suppose this kind of striker is not always that easy to find and will cost a pretty penny. There were some including on the podcast that were absolutely demanding a… Read more »

TR7

Tom’s stinging sarcasm is brutal.

raptora

What we should remember is the fact that if a player has done well in a team led by an excellent/top class manager, it doesn’t mean that said player will do as good in a team lead by not a top class manager like our very own generational. We should be aware that shopping from, say Man City, doesn’t guarantee us a top performer just because said player has done well there. What I’m talking about was obvious during our Wenger years. Not many that looked good under Wenger, managed to do as well or better in another team. Just… Read more »

Ishola70

Anyhow having Eddie N as first choice striker fits the club’s narrative now of having youngish players that could be seen as on the up with potential although not absolutely guaranteed with Eddie that he will ultimately be a bomb.

So go for it.

Put him in as first choice and see how it goes.

raptora

And as some said, Jesus and Nketiah are quite similar players. Do we really want 2 strikers that won’t change our game that much if at all?

Unless Jesus is the LW transfer and we have another player in mind for the CF position? Might as well buy a LW that could bang like Danjuma.

TR7

Conte is an arsonist alright. He has this uncanny ability of lighting a fire under the arse of players which leads to great results.

TR7

No to Jesus and Eddie as I and many others have said before. We will basically have two Lacazzetes albeit younger and faster.

Nigel Tufnel

So far on legrave this afternoon: we have comments like Eddie will be an expensive failure and Arsenal are guilty of something on Marquinos in Brazil, not knowing all the facts, its automatically the fault of Arsenal. That’s the kilroy way of seeing things. Plus, other losers believe everything they read and Morata is going to be our brand new shiny CF. Also sack everybody and hire InsideRight to run the club. Trying to get back into the champions league is just a waste of time according to him, he’ll just wave his wand and get us straight to winning… Read more »

TR7

Both Bissouma and Tielmans available for £30M. £60M spend on those two can really upgrade our midfield.

DigitalBob

Interesting post Pedro, thanks very much. Also enjoyed the pod with you and johnny, good to know you guys will get us through these non-footballing months with regular pods! As I said on your last post, I have no issue with Eddie getting a new deal, purple patch or not, it makes sense. My only “slight” negative would be if he’s been given assurances of starting or a certain amount of starts. I don’t really like guarantees like that. We need him to retain the same hunger. Elneny I’m firmly whelmed about, not under not over. I personally don’t think… Read more »