SUPERSTAR KID IN ‘WTF’ MOVE – ARSENAL RAID CITY AND ALUMNI LIST

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Omari Hutchinson was one of the players Arsenal fans were quite to watch next season. The young attacker has been at the club for 7 years, there was a lot of hype around him, he found the bench a lot towards the end of last season, we were hoping he’d be the next Bukayo or Emile.

Well, he’s packed his bags for West London, signing for Chelsea.

Firstly, let’s just say this: The byproduct of an elite youth system is that not all of the kids can make it / will even want to try. It is a compliment that we now have a system good enough to have other big clubs sniffing around it. This is probably the first big ‘oh shit’ moment we’ve had. Edu and Arteta have been really good at tying most of our gems down to deals. Shit happens.

Secondly, it is perfectly fine to look at this situation with WTF tinted Raybans.

Chelsea had a real crack with young players under Frank Lampard. Why? Because they had a transfer ban and used that period to try something different. It worked. The players that came through won the Champions League in yr 1 of Tuchel.

What has happened since then?

Last season, Thomas Tuchel shipped out Tammy Abraham to Roma for £37m, and signed Lukaku for £90m

Connor Gallagher spent the season at Palace.

Livramento and Broja spent the season at Southampton.

Levi Colwill wants out after a good loan at Huddersfield.

Fikayo Tomori was sold to Milan and won the title.

C-HO hasn’t developed at all.

I don’t even know what’s going on with Billy Gilmour.

Chelsea is trying to re-sign Nathan Ake who they bombed off the Bournemouth

Thomas Tuchel, for all the rockstar adulation, had quite a poor year, and talent ID was at the core of it.

Historically, always remember this: Chelsea binned Salah, KDB, and young Lukaku.

Now look at their transfer policy under Todd Boehly. They’ve just lost Christensen and Tony Rudiger… and they’ve spent £37m on a 31-year-old in Koubilaly.

Policy-wise, they’ve spent £50m on Sterling and tried to spend another £60m on Raphinha. Todd B tried to convince Tuchel on Cristiano Ronaldo.

Why raise this you say?

Well, how the hell do you sell that sort of project to Omari Hutchinson unless money is the driver?

If the player wanted minutes and didn’t believe in his ability to break at Arsenal, surely, surely, surely you’d go and work under Patrick Vieira at Palace, head to Dortmund, or try and sneak a move to Leicester City?

Getting a starting place at Chelsea is a 2% chance at 18 years old. He won’t play in Europe at all. It’ll be hard for him to break into the cup line-ups because there will be talent there that needs minutes for the emergency moments in the league.

Kids at clubs around Europe are double-taking offers from big clubs these days because they know they are being stockpiled as U23s to be sold on. Do you go to Bayern to play for the u23s or do you go to Monchengladbach and get minutes? Do you stay at PSG or do you go to Le Harve? One of those directions gives you a better chance of making a career out of the game. The other has a case study from Arsenal. Marcus MaGuane was killing it at Arsenal, he took a move to Barcelona, now he’s slumming it at Oxford City after failing with Nottingham Forest.

This move looks like a weird revenge move from Kia. You think he’s not petty enough for that? Remember the Bruno Newcastle video where they popped off at Edu with one of the welcome video frames?

I wish the player the best of luck, I really do, but this move doesn’t pass the logic test, and I’m not sure it gets the boy to where he needs to be. It didn’t have to be Arsenal, but surely, it shouldn’t have been Chelsea?

What will be interesting now is to see how Marquinhos does. Clearly, the Brazilian is the solution to whatever Omari was going to be for us this season. I just hope Omari doesn’t look back in 2 years time and see this new boy smashing it in Arsenal’s starting 11 while he’s on his 4th loan with FC Charleroi.

ONTO FIRST TEAM TINGS.

Arsenal are in negotiations with Manchester City over Zinchenko. It’s heading in the right direction. Johhny Cochrane messaged me earlier to point out that it looks like we’re getting preferential treatment from them, an especially pertinent point when you consider this deal might be at the expense of Chelsea signing Nathan Ake.

The player is quality, he’s competition for Xhaka and Kieran Tierney, this is how you move when you are trying to get back to the top of the game.

There’s a great video doing the rounds where Kyle walker gives his view on who the 3 most technically gifted players at the club are.

“Not in any order, my top three are Zinchenko, Mahrez & Silva. Two touches, head tennis, so good. You’re leaving De Bruyne out, Foden, Cancelo, but they don’t come close to those three.”

Being singled out as one of the most technically blessed players at City is quite the accolade when you consider the outrageous talent on offer.

We are getting ourselves a top player here, he’ll want to impose himself on our starting 11, we’ll be signing another 4 time Premier League winner.

In other news, now Raphinha has moved to Barcelona, talk is on the winger.

Leroy Sane has entered the conversation. The player was absolute mustard when he was at City under Mikel Arteta. 57 g/a in 90 appearances is top tier. He’s dipped at little at Bayern, with 48 g/a in 111. But whatever, he’d be an electric signing, though a little bit older than the profile we’ve been chasing. The fee is rumoured to be around £60m. He’s an end product merchant. You just worry that a player of that reputation might mean less time for Martinelli who could find that level. His Champions League record is 29 g/a in 39 games. So, so elite. Suspect he’ll be picking Madrid before us, but whatever, I like that our name is in the mixer, and once again, it’s the City connection.

William Saliba, according to some reports, is not going to extend his deal. This is a weird one, because GFFN is oddly taken as a serious voice in football, but runs with very clear agendas that are quite immature. They don’t want Saliba to stay at Arsneal, they’ve been wrong at nearly every turn, so I’m not sure why we need to take this too seriously.

If Saliba has said he won’t sign a new deal until he sees how he’s used this season, that would make absolute sense professionally and from a business perspective. If his season goes badly, he’ll get a more favorable exit with one year on his deal than 6. So logically, I get the contract situation, but again, who knows. He might just want to get more money right away and feel secure that the club really wants him to be in the mixer next season.

I am calm regardless. There’s no better place for him to be at the moment. If he does what he did last season in the Premier League, he’ll be getting plenty of minutes this season.

Ok, that’s all I have.

P.S. I am on the wait for childbirth. We’re back and forth with pre-labour stuff. So I’ll be in and out on content

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Emiratesstroller

Useroz

The issue for me in case of Omari-Hutchinson is that the player is leaving us for free or at
best a relatively small compensation

Young players are always leaving clubs if they fail to make the grade. That is part and parcel
of any academy system, but other clubs appear to be a lot better at generating fees from that
situation.

Useroz

Hasn’t Zinchenko one year left in his contract? £30m sounds high if we are buying him primarily as a LB backup… but we seem to love paying OTT in this generational regime.

Wheres the CM most feel we need … way overdue!

Samesong

Emirates I would also add Nelson to that list. Buying Marquinhos probably sealed it for him. He didnt even get on the plane to US had to stay home and play against Hereford. I wish him all the best.

Useroz

Exactly, EmiratesS.

Way too low a fee reported for Omari. Well at least we aren’t paying him to leave haha

raptora

Zinchenko’s contract expires in 2 years. I don’t think we’re overpaying, maybe by 5m if at all, which is nothing knowing that were buying him from the best club in the country. I’m excited. Love Zinchenko.

raulishuss

I’m sorry but what has omari achieved in the game that zalalem hasn’t? ???

TR7

Zinchenko for £30M a better deal than Lisandro for £50M. I guess even the £30M figure includes add-ons.

Muppetman

TR7 I agree. The Martinez price was just getting silly

Goobergooner

Papa pedro! Hope everything goes well for you and your partner mate. I forgive you in advance for the lack of posting/shorter posts coming up haha.

Emiratesstroller

Useroz Arsenal are clearly beefing up their squad this summer with players who are hopefully good enough to play in first team. The club has in recent times progressed at least one academy player to the first team squad annually more for experience than regular game time. Last season Balogun and Okonkwo were added to squad but realistically are not playing in first team. What seems to be happening now is that youngsters are turning up at first team training, but less likely to play in games and the expectation is that they are being loaned out to Championship or… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

Balogun played in starting lineup against Brentwood last season and was invisible and had
a poor game, which in hindsight was to be expected for such an inexperienced player

Young players need to learn to walk before they can run.

Emiratesstroller

Brentford not Brentwood

Terraloon

Football is all about opinions and as witnessed again with Hutchinson leaving the questions should really be why he feels the need to 1) More money 2) Didn’t feel his pathway to PL was properly planned. For instance planned loans and step up in terms of status of the loaning clubs 3) Poor relationships with coaching staff 4) Broken promises ( sat on the bench 8 times without 1 minute of first team football) There may be other reasons but one that really needs to be considered is the state and or reputation of Hale End. Is it within football… Read more »

LoveSausage

I’m really excited about Zinchenko. Of course, people are whining on Twitter. The same people who were excited about the club bringing in a CB from the Dutch league for 46M and then repurposing him to LB… OZ is a top 3 LB in the league and he can play as a left 8 as well. The best 30M we’ll ever spend.

Leedsgunner

Omari Hutchinson,I bet feels like a big player right now because he’s made his move to what he will convince himself is a bigger club. Do you think he’s get a chance alongside Pulisic, Mount and Sterling with whom he will have to fight for a place? At Arsenal he had his contemporaries to fight for a place, at Chelsea he will need to dislodge proven pros. It sounds like he’s gone for the pay packet. £3m for a completely unproven player who has sat on our bench about a dozen times is fair enough deal as long as we… Read more »

Useroz

If Zinchenko has 2 years left £30m would sound a bit more reasonable. Omari aside, Charlie Patino would likely find same challenge in trying ro playing in the first team. Taller I think but very skinny for a footballer! Transfermarkt says he’s €2m so even worth less than Omari?! Azeez another one on the peripheral for coupla of years already including out on loans but hasn’t seemed to have made waves anywhere. So is he really a prospect? Btw, every time hearing the Runnerboy is still with us is just infuriating… how could a club like Arsenal be so naive… Read more »

Dream10

From @monty_official_

Marcelo Flores is not best pleased with Arsenal after making it official that the player will not be summoned to the preseason in the states with the gunners. This is the reason he turned down his opportunity to represent Mexico for the Under 20 World Cup via
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Leedsgunner

Zinchenko for £30m?

Brilliant piece of business for both parties. Man City is making over £28m profit and we are basically getting two players in one in this stupid overheated market. He is an excellent player who will serve as an superb deputy to Tierney and a great midfield option and upgrade on Xhaka.

TR7

Zinchenko can do everything Xhaka can and some Given he has moved to Arsenal for regular game time, I wouldn’t be surprised if he played ahead of Xhaka every week.

China1

30m for a quality player with a good attitude, experience, something to prove and a cabinet full of trophies, but still pretty young, who can play in both of our two weakest positions and is better than our existing starters in both positions?

Damn straight that’s good business.

China1

He’s better than Tierney at LB and better than xhaka at CM

Leedsgunner

Leeds United is looking for a winger and left back. Perhaps we can tempt them with Nico Pepe and Tavares? With having sold Raphinha and Philips they aren’t short of a few bob now.

Or here is a thought, if we could sell them Tierney for say £40m to £50m would you do it? Given his injury record I have to say I would be tempted.

raptora

Super happy if we get both Jesus and Zinchenko. I actually believe we couldn’t have done better than that in a 75m total package. Top business.

TR7

If we sign Tielemans and Zinchenko then a very good transfer window in terms of incoming as far as Arsenal are concerned. Unlike last transfer window we are getting value for money in this window.

Pierre

Last game of the season , home to Everton, winning comfortably, kids on the bench and what does Arteta do, he brings on Lacazette and pepe as subs, 2 players who he knows will be leaving the club .

Strange decision.

Pre season tour , Arteta takes a number of players who will leave the club and leaves the new generation of kids at home , I’m sure they would have benefitted from the experience .

Another strange decision.

TR7

“Pre season tour , Arteta takes a number of players who will leave the club and leaves the new generation of kids at home , I’m sure they would have benefitted from the experience .”

If the likes of Bellerin, Mari, Pepe, Tavares etc. are not taken to the pre-season tour, we lose all the bargaining power in any negotiation to sell them.

Samesong

Leeds

You make assumptions that he would of got his chance this season how are you so sure ? Nelson and Marquinhos are ahead of Hutchinson. both players were on the plane. The lad clearly see his future elsewhere. Just wish the lad all the best.

Leedsgunner

“If the likes of Bellerin, Mari, Pepe, Tavares etc. are not taken to the pre-season tour, we lose all the bargaining power in any negotiation to sell them…”

Or conversely it acts as a shop window for them all.

It does seem like a very deliberate decision odd that only Okwonko and Walters have gone over.

raptora

Bayern supposedly about to drop £80m on De Ligt.
Manure £72m on Frenkie.
Real bought Tchouameni for £85m.
Liverpool got Nunez for £85m.
Barca got Raphinha and Lewandowski for a combined £100m.
City got Haaland and Phillips for a combined £100m.
Chavs got Sterling for £50m.
We got Jesus for £45m.
Pogba left Manure.
Mane left Liverpool.

We’re in the middle of July, hello?!

LeMassiveCoq

Best wishes Pedro! Hope all goes super smooth.

I’ll be happy when we sign an actual Cm/cdm

Terraloon

I know Hutchinson turned down anew contract but was he still under contract at Arsenal or has his last deal come to an end ? Suggestions elsewhere are that he was out of contract while others suggest he was under contract to 2023 It would be very very unusual for an academy player to be on a month by month deal so two things complicate matters significantly 1) if he was out of contract it’s just compensation that would either be by agreement but more likely set by an independent panel. If in contract an incredibly low ball deal indeed… Read more »

Rich

I said before we were linked with Zinchenko at the end of the season, that if we could get Jesus, Zinchenko + Tielemans for £75-£80 million, that it would be excellent business, and plug 3 holes in the squad that needed filling. I agree with Rap, we’ve probably paid a bit more than I’d expected for the 2 of them at £75 million But they’re still 2 very good players, at good ages, and level of experience. Neither player at 25 has been overplayed, or have much football in their legs, both should hit the ground running, and by the… Read more »

Useroz

“Or here is a thought, if we could sell them Tierney for say £40m to £50m would you do it? Given his injury record I have to say I would be tempted.”

Tierney with a 50m offer… will bite whoever’s hand off

englandsbest

The current crazy spend on transfers, here and in Europe, can be traced to the upcoming decision of the European Court of Justice on what is, essentially super leagues run by the Clubs themselves. At the moment Uefa have a monopoly – which contracdicts European law. Evidently the top Clubs believe Uefa will lose, thus their mad rush to stay at the top. Personally my belief is that we should welcome tsuperleagues provided they are open to all, and the clubs in them play as normal in their home leagues. I have given my reasons often, so I won’t repeat… Read more »

Rich

They’d be crazy to breakup the success of the PL Football is by far the most watched sport on the planet, and the PL is by far the most watched league. Why the hell would they break that up, for the benefit of dwindling league’s across mainland Europe? Then potentially let the Americans, Chinese, Indian’s get their foot through the door, into a global super league, where the top PL teams, risk being blown out of the water. That would be insane, all the top clubs in this country would be doing, is inviting more competition to their doorstep. They’ve… Read more »

Adams

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Ray+in+LA

Two things come to mind reading through the comments…

first, what a bargain Tammy Abrahams was for 37m

second, it sounds like both Saliba and Gabriel could exit and we would go from being CB-rich to CB-poor in a trice

Pierre

Pablo Vieira.

“It’s a big challenge, The Premier League is more intense, more physical. I’m not a physical player, so I have to work hard and build my physique. But for me, it’s my intelligence and my quality that is most important. In Portugal, I never had a problem with the physical side.

‘Before the ball comes to me, I have to watch and think what’s happening next. Intelligence is one of my attributes”

Let’s hope Arsenal supporters recognise that intelligence and quality are more important instead of harping on about him building up his muscles.

Leedsgunner

If Juventus want Gabriel M, I say the price is £75m. That way we restore some respect after they humiliated us over Vlahovic last January. That way with one sale, we start to repair our reputation as a soft selling club.

Saliba, as good as he thinks he is, is wrong to demand a starting position when he hasn’t even played one minute of competitive EPL football. He better be able to back it up!

Leedsgunner

Plus Juventus, no swaps. You can keep your cast offs. £75m or nothing!

Dissenter

It’s very likely that we sell a defender. I expect that Saliba will get sold before rhe season starts Saliba has been a starter everywhere he’s been and is in the verge of making the World Cup squad. He has to play regularly, it’s that simple. Saliba will want firm assurances about playing time, he will demand that a new contract to give him unusual paths of exits. I think it’s understandable based on the past. Arteta will not give him those near starting guarantees. Edu won’t want him to have a contract with guaranteed exit-clauses based on playing time.… Read more »

englandsbest

Rich

I’d agree with you if super leagues mean breaking up EPL – but it doesn’t. In fact, if anything the premiership would become even more watchable as an entry into the lower Super League.

You’ve tempted me to repeat a couple of reasons why football fans should welcome properly run superleages. Firstly, we’d get to watch the best teams in Europe compete on a weekly basis as well as the EPL, and secondly, the Clubs would ensure sensible honest rules and expert refereeing – something Uefa (and FIFA) fail to do.

Marko

Given how he’s been treated the last two seasons I don’t blame Saliba wanting assurances on his future especially given the talent and his involvement now with the french national team.

Dissenter

Also if Saliba doesn’t sign an extension, any well run club has to sell him.
His stock is very high right now and we will make a decent profit on what we paid for him in 2019.
We’ll have to wait and see how well runs club we are.
It could be Joel Campbell again, after the 2014 WC.

Leedsgunner

Mikel Arteta made the call to send Saliba out of loan so that he could get hundreds, no thousands of minutes of first team playing time under his belt. Saliba, to his credit did very well. Hopefully he has the good sense to realise that his manager sent him out out on loan to get better rather than to think he is better than he actually is. Honestly, no matter what innate talent a player thinks he has, no player is bigger than the club. Football is a team game and everyone, no matter how good they think they are… Read more »

Dissenter

Leeds ‘ onestly, no matter what innate talent a player thinks he has, no player is bigger than the club’ That’s not the case where It’s a case of people and institutions putting themselves first Saliba has to look out for himself and Arsenal have to prepare to her interests. Sometimes those two can’t agree and there has to be a parting. I don’t think Saliba is trying to be bigger than the club, he probably just wants to make the right decision for his career. If he goes, we move on. We can get good money for him now.… Read more »

Leftside

Saliba is featured on the website giving positive interviews. He’s being posted heavily on social media with us, by us also. The words that leave his mouth do not tally up with what I’ve seen from some second rate journalists. I wouldn’t worry about him leaving, he sounds determined to prove his worth here and get game time. His agent spoke of the positive conversations held with Edu on Monday and between Saliba and Mikel too. It seems to be an easy point for journalists to try to stir the point by seemingly winging and making things up regarding him.… Read more »

China1

Saliba holds the cards on his contract but not for whether or not we sell him. If he gets sold it should only be because arsenal wish to and because we get an offer that is too good to refuse Him wanting to go to the World Cup is frankly his problem Nobody is offering us the going rate for a top young CB right now 45-55m. If we receive offers it’s going to be from poor continental clubs like marseille who can be told no when they come in with a derisory offer hoping to get him because we… Read more »

Marko

Arteta fanboys in shambles right now going from one extreme to the next. Who said anything about guarantees of starting? What’s more likely is he was assurances of opportunities and game time and given how Saliba was treated before by Mikel and how little he rotated his squad last season I would say that he’s absolutely correct in doing so.

I personally hope he signs because whoever the next arsenal manager is he’d love to have a player like him on board

China1

Thing can change in football very quickly Just look at Eddie who was treated poorly by artery’s as well and ignored almost the whole season. His situation was much more pressing because his contract was literally almost up. He finally got his chance towards the end of the season. Had a great time. Positivity from the fans, the manager said sorry. New contract signed Saliba wanting to play in the World Cup and having two years left on his deal should absolutely not be a dealbreaker for arsenal (him wanting to go to the World Cup is not our concern… Read more »

Leedsgunner

Dissenter

Personally I think there’s a greater chance Gabriel going more than Saliba if anyone does go imo. If Saliba wanted to go he could have said so clearly when he was on loan (especially with Guendouzi whispering sweet nothings in his ear about how great he was.

The reality is Saliba hasn’t played a minute of EPL football. He should keep his mouth shut and do his talking on the pitch.

China1

If he wants to play in the World Cup, arteta should tell him of course you do. So if you want to play in the starting 11 for arguably the strongest team in international football I believe you can force your way into this arsenal starting 11.

If he can’t rise to that challenge (assuming Arteta treats him fairly and doesn’t ignore him again) then it’s his problem.

Leftside

“The reality is Saliba hasn’t played a minute of EPL football. He should keep his mouth shut and do his talking on the pitch.“

Leeds, if you look online and not just believe what a divisive journalist with little ties to the club has to say you will see that Saliba hasn’t been running his mouth. He’s spoken about watching all of our games whilst on loan last year so he can learn everyones game for when he returns etc.

China1

Selling Gabriel also makes no sense unless there’s a crazy offer

Really don’t know why people think we can or should consider selling valuable assets unless we receive a truly valuable offer (we haven’t yet)

Marko

(assuming Arteta treats him fairly and doesn’t ignore him again)

You know what they say about assuming. I feel like that’s where this whole thing stems from.

Leftside

Pretty much Marko

Leftside

Sane would be unreal, but he’s already on £350k a week apparently at Bayern. I can’t see us going for someone so expensive.

China1

Ofc marko, Arteta has repeatedly shown an aversion to working with some players and Saliba was one of the worst examples unfortunately That being said it doesn’t stop it being the case that arsenal hold every single card when it comes to the idea of selling CBs right now. We’ve just spent the last season trying to bed in white with Gabriel. Both are good players who we would hope will kick on. We now have one of the biggest young talents in the game back from his loan in the same position. That’s a *wonderful* position for the club… Read more »

NJ Gooner

Pedro,

My wife was in labour for 27 hours with our first……. and three hours with our third.

The lesson? Be prepared, young man. be prepared. 🙂

Best of…… that’s heartfelt. And remember that fatherhood is a marathon, not a print.

Terraloon

China Nobody is offering us the going rate for a top young CB right now 45-55m. The market continues to massively impacted by COVID. Other than Barca’s crazy approach who outside England and say PSG and Bayern are paying close to £40 million for players let alone defenders. Saliba is in the last two years of his contract and was it Edu that said players entering the last two years would be sold if they would sign a new deal ? Every time I read something about Saliba is sort of suggests he doesn’t really want to be at Arsenal… Read more »

Marko

That being said it doesn’t stop it being the case that arsenal hold every single card when it comes to the idea of selling CBs right now. Sure I don’t think anyone is saying otherwise. It’s also likely this whole thing is a nothing burger and it’s just idiotic fans making it a Arteta vs whoever argument again. We’ll see if he gets a fair crack though I personally hope so cause I rate him as probably our best CB or soon to be but you know there’s White in there and who wants to spend 50 million on someone… Read more »

Rich

Saliba doesn’t hold all the cards, he’s got a strong hand, but the club has got cards it can play. He’s got a 2yr contract at Arsenal, the club don’t have to sell him. Sometimes opportunity doesn’t knock twice, if the club are offering him a 5yr contract, on 100-150% increase in wages Then he has to consider that, he could later get injured, have a drop in form, struggle to adjust to the PL There’s no guarantee his stock is as high as it currently is in 12-24 months time Say he’s currently on £40k p/w, and the club… Read more »

Valentin

Does anybody genuinely believe that Arteta will bench Ben White in favour of Saliba? Ben White would need to lose a limb before Arteta does not start him. Any player not in Arteta’s initial plan knows that that need external lucky break to be given an opportunities by Arteta. It took Willian’s COVID and injury before ESR was given a chance. Even after Lacazette complete lack of form and effectiveness, It took Lacazette’s COVID, injury for Eddie being given a chance. From Saliba’s perspective he and his agent have to look at HIS interest. He does not need to sign… Read more »

China1

Exactly we agree that no one is going to offer the market rate for saliba So we’re going to undersell? Again. In this case one of the biggest prospects for his position in world football. And we’ll pay more money for a probably inferior replacement. Some of his recent interviews and quotes have been very positive. His talk of unhappiness was from a while back, not that recently. The only negativity right now is he may not sign his contract yet. Probably a good call for him. That in no way forces our hand. This is not a case of… Read more »

China1

I think as much as anything we’ve just become so accustomed to seeing any player who isn’t falling over themselves with joy as a problem that can only be resolved by selling them ASAP and for whatever we can get This is exactly why we suck at selling and undersell in literally every transfer. Some players, even if they are a bit unhappy or difficult, can be resolved by other means. Is it really beyond us to put our arm around a top player/young talent and say ‘I’m listening to you, I value you and let’s work together on how… Read more »

NJ Gooner

Don’t forget that Saliba and White are also options at right back in a 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2 with Jesus and Eddie up front.

And those options expand if we go with three at the back with a 3-5-1-2 formation. That would accommodate White and Saliba in defense.

All those configurations could give Saliba plenty of minutes.

Useroz

Well, so far, it’s just media reports Saliba this and that… who knows? It’s not unreasonable to think if Saliba would flare better than White over time if given a fair chance? All I’d like is the club plays the better players to win. The club can’t keep on letting go massive prospect and lose out on financial just because a coach /manager wants to play boss. Heaped praise on Mari when we signed him., ditto Willian, Aubas new massive contract, Runnerboy etc Pepe hasn’t adapted well but surely we’d use him more … did he not score 10+ goals… Read more »

Omozuafo Frank

Nice piece. Zinchenko will be a good addition if we can sign him. And for that amount being touted a steal buy. Let’s now get the player to fix the midfield. A very good transfer window in my own opinion. Congratulations on the expected baby.

Un

Freddie bati raptora What the fuck are you dopey arse holes talking about? Arteta has played 3 youth team products consistently throughout this season plus Willock AMN and neslon in previous seasons. ESR and Nketiah got their first runs as arsenal first teamers under Arteta. Didn’t matter why or how. The fact remains he did and now both a scoring regularly in the league When Arteta got Saka he was bing talked about as one of the best young wing backs around Now he’s the best wide forward in the england squad and scoring regularly from the right Would you… Read more »

Un

Premier league appearances

Mount 34
James 26
Loftus cheek 24
Chalobah 20
Odoi 15

119

Saka 38
Smith Rowe 33
Eddie 21
AMN 8
Neslon 1
Balogun 2

103

Chelsea nick it by 15 odd appearances
So yhis means Arteta doesn’t give youth a chance
Fucking wasters

Abiodun

Remember the Willock clan, Matt and Chris too. Omari saw himself behind Saka and Marquinhos, and shrunk.

Terraloon

UN

If you are going to rely on numbers get then right.

You keep missing of Christensen from the Chelsea numbers .He joined Chelsea academy at age 15 the same age as Eddie joined Arsenals