We need to start giving Nelson more time on the pitch and replace nketiah with Ivan Toney, then we’ll be laughing
We’re finally in a position to not look desperate going into a transfer window where we need to plug blatant gaps in our roster. Definitely negotiating from a position of strength.
If we are in a good position going into the new year I can see KSE going all in and splashing on a striker target to win the league. This is the best window of opportunity that has opened in the past decade for us to push for the title given where our squad and the rest of the top teams on the league are. Possibly the year Leicester won was better from a rivals perspective but our squad was nowhere near the quality we have now.
Watch us buy someone.
I hope we still manage to get a CB, unless we are planning on promoting an academy player.
Tomi, Kiwi and Timber (when back) can play pretty much anywhere across the back line. We have a tonne of flexibility.
Worst case scenario is something like White moving inside and Cedric at RB. That’d be bad, but as worst case scenarios go, it could be way worse.
I’m happy with our depth at the back compared to other positions.
Tomi is missing Jan due to asian cup
If Japan go deep, that’s 4 games.
Good thing the avengers already assembled then innit
From the article: "From what I hear there isn’t much budget or desire to do significant business in January (important to add that this could hypothetically change depending on potential departures, availability of targets, injuries, form and so on) and naturally that would put Arsenal in a stronger position to invest again next summer.
I don’t think we can question KSE’s willingness to do so since taking full control of the club, it’s more a matter of what the FFP rules enable them to do. The David Raya deal going through as a loan with an option to buy illustrated that Arsenal are sailing close to the wind. My understanding is that, once they are in a more comfortable FFP position and able to spend properly again, the first outlay will likely need to be turning the Raya move into a permanent transfer.
Thereafter I’m sure they will have a plan as to how they wish to proceed. Most probably — as things stand — that will start with a striker. We’ve all seen the names linked. There is also the long-held desire to provide back-up/competition for Bukayo Saka, potentially depth at left centre-back, left-back cover if Tierney leaves, and so on.
I’m sure Arsenal — like most teams — will be scouring the market for top emerging talent and good value-for-money deals, which obviously will be easier to do than the big-money transactions."
left-back cover if Tierney leaves
This made me laugh for some reason.
Nelson is backup to Saka and he just signed a new deal. Really like Nelson too - one of our best impact substitutes.
Nelson is going to be replaced as soon as the right profile winger for us becomes available
I hope not - he just signed a new contract. Hale End is the identity of the club. You can’t buy that.
We extended his contract because we couldn’t afford another winger with our other expenditure
Arsenal gave him a new deal because they don’t want to lose him for free.
Gooners also need to accept that the “Hale End identity” of the club was during a period when we had to sell to stabilize our finances and producing our own talent was key to our success.
Now, we have the ability to target the world’s best players to improve our team. Of course, if your academy produces a player that can chat to the world’s best talents then you keep them. But I’ll be honest, there isn’t a single Hale Ender in our Academy/on loan that can chat to the world’s best talents apart from Nwaneri.
Selling talent is how a club becomes self sustainable. I’d love to sit here and say that we’re going to win the treble every season and that’s where our finances will come from to be a self sustaining club so we can keep every Hale End player, but that’s obviously not going to happen.
But I’ll be honest, there isn’t a single Hale Ender in our Academy/on loan that can chat to the world’s best talents apart from Nwaneri.
Myles Lewis-Skelly: “What he say fuck me for?”
We say that but he plays on the left more lol
Yeah he does play on the left too but our depth on that side is much stronger. I would like to see ESR and Nelson play regularly - so it’s disheartening to see them competing for limited game time in the same position.
why would we need depth at LCB
Makes me even more sus of how city can just go out and spend 100 mil on gvadiol
What? City could spend 300 million more and still not be in FFP trouble. They’ve sold incredibly well for years now and on top of that have won every trophy available. Besides, we spent 100 million ourselves on Declan Rice. How is them spending 100 million somehow suspect?
No mention of center midfielder.
Looks like midfield Havertz is here to stay.
Good i like
No shit
Shocking 4 months into a £65m signings time at a club
As he said last time, the links with all these players was mostly agent talk. The way some fans want to constantly buy new players makes it seem we are having a bad season. We are joint first with eddie starting and Partey injured for most games. I can only imagine how much better we will be with Jesus up top and partey/rice/ode midfield. We have plenty of options in other areas, but some fans need to allow players to have bad games without wanting to replace them. Barring any major injuries, I think we should not do much business in January and save up for the summer.
Constantly buying new players is sort of how you maintain success though. I’m not talking a whole new squad every window like Chelsea, but at least one or two quality additions.
If you settle with what you deem to be a ‘good enough’ squad you end up with what happened at Liverpool, where they had a UCL/Prem winning team that slowly eroded as players aged, left or decreased in quality.
City are experts at continuing to refresh their squad even when they’ve just won the league (or a treble). I’d be disappointed if we didn’t sign a new forward in Jan as a backup for Jesus or Saka.
This is basically where City are at now - they have the ability to add 1-2 players each window and keep the quality level high.
City are also far better at selling players than we are though, but that’s only because they have players people want. If clubs want your players (because they are high quality) the price gets driven up. Basic supply/demand.
Arsenals last player we had whom everyone would have wanted, and I mean everyone, was Henry.
We’ve managed to sell some mediocre players for over-inflated fees (Ox, Iwobi) but we’ve never sold one of our prime players for what they are worth.
In our current squad, only Saka would likely command a £100m+ fee - and we would never want to sell him so I expect our player sales to continue a similar pattern.
Don’t forget Timber. When he’s back I think he’ll unlock some tactical shift that Arteta wanted to do this season.
Still can’t believe he tore his ACL in his first fucking match. People will still try and say we have no injuries
Especially with how good he looked from so little we saw of him. Title charge or not he feels like such a what if this season
Our squad depth is actually pretty damn fine. You can always get one more good winger, striker, defender etc. but in comparison to last year’s thin squad we are fine and dandy.
Pedro Neto or Ivan Toney is happening.
We had to get Raya on loan due to FFP. We are not spending 50m+ on any player in January.
All part of the mind games.
‘Sorry lads, we’re telling you now we can’t buy your players….loan with option however…’
I think it highly depends on where Brentford are at in the table come January in regards to Toney. I don’t think Neto goes anywhere until the summer.
I dont think Toney leaves in Jan, they never signed a striker and have so many players going to AFCON plus the injury list long term is ridiculous.
They would be putting PL survival at risk if they let him go.
Translation Arsenal have no desire to win anything
Really? That’s your take from the news we have no budget for signings?
Downvote me to hell my fellow Gunners,
However there’s something I’m not really getting,
Is this the hill Arteta wants to plant his flag on?
I get he wanted Raya before Ramsdale, But it’s not like Raya is Lehmann and Ramsdale is Vito Mannone for example,
The gulf isn’t that wide,
So I guess what I’m tryna say or ask is,
IF you want and REALLY want two good players in each position,
Why alienate him or RISK alienating him?
Am I alone in this line of thinking?
E7H is obviously an intern in our economy department so he knows
Nobody’s shelling out for ramsdale