Are we better or worse, WTF is going on - Summer 2021 transfer thread.

We don’t have a single cm for dual 8 system

 

Players like ESR can play as an 8/10 player in a 1-2 midfield though, I think. Odegaard too, probably.

 

It might take a season to get it right, a season Arteta doesn’t have to devote to an experiment, but Saka and Smith-Rowe would probably work as dual 8s.

 

Saka has the legs for that role but he is infinitely better as a right attacker cutting in

esr might have the motor but I like him in an advanced position finding midfielder runners

my personal choice would be a more rounded striker that can play across the front line with martinelli left, esr ten and saka right wing

maybe Pepe can become a great forward? He’s also a good left attacker too

a complete midfielder with good running ability makes this team next level to partner partey and with a better right back we are strong

 

esr has always played as a right sided forward or a ten

 

The 4-3-3 with inverted fullbacks can look like the 4-2-3-1 with one inverted fullback when you are in attack, because either way you want a 2-3-5.

4-3-3 in attack:
LW---8---ST---8---RW
----LB-----6----RB---
-------CB-----CB------

4-2-3-1 in attack:
LB---LW---ST----10----RW
------8------6/8-----RB
---------CB------CB

The major difference is in personnel. To me, the 4-3-3 requires more new signings this summer than is realistically possible, but a 4-2-3-1 with one inverted FB isn't all that different than what Arteta was playing at the end of last season except mirrored, with Ceballos playing a right-sided 8 and Xhaka as an inverted LB.

And instead of just copying Pep, I'd love to see Arteta come up with his own innovation or twist that gives Arsenal a strategic advantage.

 

Jump at it. If Arsenal can only get 15 for Xhaka in this market, 17 for Torreira sounds like good business. The only players not being discounted in this market are those with a home grown surcharge, players teams desperately want to keep, and players like Haaland.

 

I’m not a fan of this scenario, but if Arsenal do buy White, Brighton might be a good loan destination. He can learn from Dunk and Potter.

 

Loaning a £28m signing for the first 60% of his contracted years would be incredibly dumb. We will have to re-up before he’s played a single game for us to preserve his value.

We have to play him this season or sell him now.

 

I like the way Italy play with a fluid midfield and the left side overlapping with a right winger

 

Fabrizio Romano has Arsenal rekindling interest in Edmond Tapsoba. If true I see two possible explanations. Either they feel the price for White is to high and have decided to move on (to a more expensive defender), or they are playing games with Brighton trying to get them to lower their price. The thing is, I think Brighton have set the £50+m fee because they don’t want to sell him. So if they are trying to get Brighton to lower their price, it may not work.

 

I'd really like to know how much of the £28m fee has been paid to St. Etienne. How much was add-ons - you have to assume none of the add-ons have been achieved. Was the payment structured in installments that are triggered by league appearances?

It's one thing to sell a young kid like Donyell Malen and see him blossom into a £30m+ player at a lower league. Imagine Saliba is loaned with an obligation to buy (as mentioned in the Wheatley article) at a PL club like Newcastle and Saliba blows up and has a great season. Arteta and Edu would look like fools and their jobs would have to be on the line for that decision alone. Which either means they are really confident that Saliba isn't good, or they are clueless.

 

He's been teasing a change to the no 5 shirt he wore at Atletico, doesn't seem like he is planning on moving. Certainly plays into the all CB/no MF formation Arteta seems to be plotting.

Ramsey's agent went on twitter to shoot down rumors that he wants to return to Arsenal.

Saw a couple Calvert-Lewin rumors, his agent is probably trying to get him a new contract. He's only on like £20k a week.

Villa supposedly preparing another bid for ESR. Again, I could see his agent asking Villa to make bids to convince Arsenal to offer a better contract.