Not sure I believe the Lemar rumors unless one of Laca or PEA is sold. That said PSG is now being mentioned as a possible suitor for PEA. Claims that they would want him to replace Cavani is he is allowed to leave for Atletico. And Atletico is trying to offload Lemar to fund Cavani.
Could have sworn we already loaned him. Yeah we did... https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/news/arsenals-konstantinos-mavropanos-heads-nurnberg-loan
One of the few things you can realistically rely on when watching youtube videos is a feeling for a player’s speed. So the first thing I did when I saw the rumors was go to youtube. Marí is not among the fastest center backs available, but wouldn’t classify him as very slow. He did play all 120 minutes against Mane and Salah in the Club World Cup final, that Flamengo lost 1-0 on a goal by Firmino.
BFG is my favorite player of the 2010s, so getting another BFG-type player would be excellent with me
He missed a lot of games after he tore his ACL in the middle of last season. In the three seasons before that he averaged more than 40 games a season, not counting domestic cups. Injury prone is not a description you can tag him with. Whether he can regain his prior form/athleticism after the ACL injury, is another question, some don’t, but even without the goal, his game against Chelsea was a pretty good start.
I'm pretty sure he's starting for Atleti so I doubt they'd do that. They're trying to get cash for Cavani
If he can get back, I'd sell him if we can get over-value. He isn't a good enough defender or attacker. But Arteta may be able to fix that
I didn’t say he way injury prone, just that he does seem a little fragile to me. Am I making it up, but didn’t he have a recurring ankle issue a few seasons ago. I know he didn’t miss too many games, but thought that was the reason we bought debuchy. Anyway, I’d still sell him for the right price.
be tough for anyone to be. cazorla could take FK with either foot for funsies. no, you're right. iwobi wasn't/isn't the player cazorla was towards the end of his time with us. but youaare also talking about a grown ass man who was a finished product before he even walked into our doors versus a kid who had yet to be allowed consistent playing time. iwobi was/is reasonably comfortable with his off-foot, has high football IQ, and could both see AND make the passes necessary. not to knock pepe because he's now showing some good qualities and probably will come good but i still feel like we could have stuck iwobi out in the same place for not a huge loss while putting all that money to different uses.
The thing about Santi is like Ozil, we only got the chance to buy him rather fortuitously. We can't get another Santi because we just aren't able to attract that level of player in the ordinary course of business
When Sagna left Bellerin was only 19, so Debuchy was brought in to replace Sagna. Debuchy was the one who injured his ankle, clearing the way for Héctor to become first choice, which he didn’t relinquish until his ACL injury last season.
I agree with that, but my main point was really that Iwobi cannot play as deep as Caz. I’m sure he’d be a nice 8 or out wide, but not deep in midfield.
Is there anything about Iwobi's play since we sold him to Everton that makes anyone think he would have been "great" for us if he had stayed? From what I've seen and looking at his stats, there's not much that makes me think he'd be anything close the player some posters think/thought he could be. Frankly, I'm amazed nobody has mentioned that we sold him for 40M GBP. That's an outstanding piece of business by any measure TODAY.
His stats are easy down this year. I have no doubt we made a great sale there having sold when his stock was high after a great season. We need to do that more rather than waiting til players suck, want away, or have injury history before offloading them. I think guendouzi, Martinelli, saka, torriera are evidence to the fact that his level talent can be reasonably replaced or even upgraded.
This is nonsense He hasn’t been replaced lol. We been forced to play kids instead of an experienced player. The squad has gotten weaker by a lot.
I’m not saying he has been replaced. I’m saying that talent can be found and it doesn’t have to always be expensive or obvious. So far, I’ve seen nothing from him at Everton that suggests he would be difficult to be replaced if/when the club wants to replace his contribution. I’m an Iwobi fan, but the club has to sell these assets when the price is right. Would you rather have Iwobi at wide left than Martinelli? I think you’d rather have Iwobi at 8/10 iirc, but emery never played him there, AW did once or twice? And I see nothing from arteta to suggest he would have played him there having started ozil every game. So if he basically would be on the bench, why would you keep him and watch his value decrease and him get annoyed at not playing?
£40m because he’s home grown, which may be even more important after Brexit. Apparently the FA is looking to push the home grown quota from 8 to 12. Currently, by my count, Arsenal only have 6 over 21 home grown players and are filling in with u21s both home grown after they reach their 21 st birthday and players who will count against the non home grown quota when they reach 21. I've also lobbied for playing Iwobi in the middle. I would rather see him there than Willock, Ceballos, and (dare I suggest) Xhaka.
I think losing all of Iwobi, Miki and Ramsey was the issue - losing any one of them was fine. But as you say, losing all 3 was too much experience.