KOSOVAN WINGER BEING FAST-FLIPPED TO ARSENAL?

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Arsenal transfer news is light on juice.

There’s a great big monstrous elephant in the room that we can’t talk about, but at a base level, what you can say is our best player, for whatever reason, is not with the squad on tour in Germany. Our season collapsed on his long-term absence last year and it’s arguably why we finished 8th in Arteta’s first full season.

As it stands, Mo Elneny is single pivoting for us, as Matt said on the podcast, that’s the difference from looking distinctly West Ham, to looking like we can compete with Manchester City at home.

There does appear to be movement on Youri Tielemans. If I were to guess why things have been slow, it’s fewfold:

  1. The player would be due back on July 14th with the rest of the international players. Clubs tend not to want to take on wages until players are working.
  2. Tielemans only wants Arsenal, so there’s not much chance of being gazumped by Todd Boehly, Newcastle, or Manchester United.
  3. Arsenal don’t want to pay Leicester a massive fee.

Frenkie De Jong is rumoured to be costing about £65m with bonuses going up to £80m. The wild part of the story is the deal is being held up because Barca owe him £17m in deferred payments. Quite something for a player that tanked.

Anyway, this is from Crab Stats.

We’re getting Youri T for less than half the price, less than half the salary, and we know he’s Premier League proven. I’ll take that sort of business all day long. He’s going to be much better than some of the miserable chatter that’s followed him after a bad season at Leicester.

We’ve been linked with Lille winger Edon Zhegrova. A Bosnian journalist has leaked that we’re in for the Kosovan. Have we had a Kosovan play for us before? I can’t think of one?

Anyway, it’s bit of a weird link. The player spent half his season in the Jupiler League with Basel, he moved to Lille, now we’re being asked to believe he’s being flipped again? What do we know about him? Not a lot. He’s fast, he’s direct, he looks like he has a mean cross, and he does have a penchant for a thunderbolt.

We bid £40m for Raphinha last week, now we’re turning to a player with half a season in Ligue One? It makes little sense unless accounting dynamics shifted because we have to account for an extra signing this window.

Still, I’m not sure anyone really expected a £55m winger to rotate with Saka, we just wanted someone capable of doing a job when they come on. Nico Pepe that ain’t…

Talking of the elusive Ivorian, Mr Galtier has taken over at PSG. He once said Pepe is a natural talent like Benzema. If he truly believes that, would he really let the boy sit on the bench at Arsenal? SURELY PSG WANT A PIECE WITH A £40M FEE?

We haven’t really done much moving on players. Hector Bellerin is staying in a hotel in London right now and wants out. Don’t pay attention to publications suggesting he’ll be here day one, the player, as it stands, does not want to be back-up right-back for Arsenal.

Lucas Torreira feels like the unpopular kid at the school disco sitting on the seats while everyone else makes moves. Why can’t he get a club to love him? Spurs just sold Steven B for £25m, why can’t we sell Bernd Leno for more than £2m? We are TERRIBLE at selling players.

Loans might be interesting this year.

Folarin Balogun, I love him, but he needs to get some development minutes. No doubt, he’s an outrageous talent, but he needs to bulk up, get bullied in the showers by a Welsh 36 yr old called Huw, and he needs to live in a place where the best place for a night out is a Sainsbury’s car park next to a burning recycling bin.

Who else leaves? Charlie Patino has been on a pure meat diet, but he’s still very green, and he looked off the pace when he debuted. Can he make a Saka-like jump this season or does he need the Saliba treatment?

Europa League IS a great place to learn about young players, so hopefully, we get a bit of excitement there, but at the same time, I hope the best young players don’t lose out because they stayed for the 6 European games, versus opting for the 4500 minutes they might get elsewhere.

Gabi Jesus dropped his first interview with Charles Watts at Goal.

Then I was pretty sure I would come to Arsenal. But after I talked to Mikel, I was 100 per cent sure. Because I trust in him. Because I trust in this big club. And I trust in myself and the players as well.

It is a big club with a big project. When Edu explained to me what they want for the future, I was so excited to join Arsenal because I love the project.

I want to win trophies. I want to win everything.

I love it.

He’s not here for 4th, he wants to win something big, and he’s going to help our young players set new standards.

Very exciting.

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Rich

That’s good news, as I had hoped. We have to get his numbers up and he needs a good pre-season.

Tom

Jeaus looked very good and I’d like to take credit personally for liking this transfer when some on here voiced their doubts.
Losers!
Reluctantly I might give some credit to Edu and Arteta too, for plucking him out of obscurity and convincing him to play for us on pittance of a wage.

Tom

Jesus

Dissenter

Un
Apparently Lazio asking for £68m for savic
We should try and offer Torreira, xakha and Nelson with £35m”

Why not offer the earnings from half of the Emirates stadium for the next 15 seasons?

Is Savic so damn good that we can’t walk away,…goddammit ?
Does he have 8 extremities by any chance

Tom

“How would you feel if you pulled a girl, did the deed and it was all sweet in the morning and then this happens”

And how do you know it was all ” sweet ” in the morning?

Dissenter

Un
Be careful not to trivialize rape allegations
In this instance, it appears to be multiple allegations.

Un

Tom

If I’ve got to explain how you know she enjoyed her time with you through her morning interactions then I’ll assume not exactly a hot with the ladies eh

Diss
I’m not trivialising anything. I just think it sees odd and don’t think we should be expecting any arsenal players to miss the season based on what’s been released so far

Thierry Martinelli

“I remember when it was Ok to vent frustration on this blog without accusation of being a plastic or spurs fan. Shame”

Good ol’ days

Tom

Un, yea, I’ve been struggling in the ladies department big time so always on a look out for pointers from a ladies man like yourself.
Step one is to get them into your room then, and once they’re in all bets are off?
Got it.

Tom

Dissenter, actually, it makes perfect sense Arsenal didn’t go near Bissouma if the player in question is our TP.
Can you imagine the implications of signing one with the other going through the same thing with the club knowing ?
The media would have a frenzy

Un

Tom

If that’s how you get your kicks. I prefer mutual attraction/consent 😎

Diss
You couldn’t make it up really could you? Like a bloody drama plot
Either way, the man being accused might be completely innocent. We don’t know and we shouldn’t label anyone until the verdict is determined. The only two people who will really know are the people who were in the room that night (unless there’s footage like the greenwood case)

izzo

Have we all seen what a real striker looks like now? Fantastic finishes by Jesus! Criminal how we persisted with the likes of Laca and Auba for so long.

Dissenter

That first goal by Nunberg was cracking though, c’mon
Turner has to be excised for that, afterall it’s preseason afterall.

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