Kylian Mbappe, Welcome to Arsenal! - Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

Our record sale is Oxlade-Chamberlain still, and Anelka is #2.

Part of it is on Edu and friends, but part of it is also on Arteta - we really don't do a good job of showcasing fringe players to maximize their value. It's always very clear who we're trying to get rid of, so why would any other clubs pay up for guys we obviously don't want?

It's frankly shocking how much we got for ESR given how little he played over the last 2 years.

 

This club has been horrible selling players for well over a decade - since Wenger no longer had to sell players at steep profits to fund the new stadium.

I'm not defending Edu, but we have to consider all the dross he had to unload right away when he came. Said differently, I can't think of any outgoing deals we can say he's botched.

 

Senior roster spots may play into the need to sell before adding. With Nketiah still at the club they have 9 senior homegrown players and counting Tierney 15 non homegrown players, so they have room to add Merino, but after that, unless they are comfortable carrying players they can’t register, they have to move senior players out before they can add senior incomings.

In addition, when evaluating Arsenal’s transfer business it should be noted that with Calafiori, Arsenal have added more senior players than Man City and Liverpool combined. There aren’t a lot of players available that would significantly improve any of the top three and those that would improve Arsenal, City, or Liverpool are prohibitively expensive.

 

I think the hate for Arsenal somehow being bad at selling players is unreasonable as well. Are you somehow going to create a market for Reiss Nelson where none existed before?

Where I do think there's room to quibble is that we haven't loaned out such players when they needed loans. ESR should absolutely have been loaned out last season. Not to maximize sale value, but to make sure he developed as a player. Loans are fickle, but that's something Edu and the Kroenkes need to figure out. Maybe the solution is buying a lower table La Liga team (like what Man City to do with Girona). Or loaning the fringe 20-21 year old players to the Rapids so that they can play.

 

I mean, yeah, by doing what you mention in the second paragraph. Nelson's career high in league minutes is 910 for Feyenoord in 2021-22. Either play him more at Arsenal or send him out to somewhere that he can play more than 250 minutes a year.

 

Even if you’re not bumping up against registration limits there can still be a point where you’ve got to move players out so that particular room isn’t so crowded, especially if it’s a room with a bunch of declining players in it.

 

If the difference for selling Nketiah to Marseille was 5mil and we turned down a 25mil bid with sell on holding out for a 30mil bid, well thats also something else to factor in.

 

We don’t know any of that, tho.

 

seeing a number of claims that Merino will be wrapped this weekend

 

I don’t think he really had “sources.” Just that he wrote what the club wanted out there.

 

The three men pretending to be a horse also said that Ornstein wrote what he was told to.

 

I'm really surprised that there hasn't been serious interest reported in Ramsdale. As our most saleable asset, you would think he is good enough to improve lots of teams. You'd nearly get the feeling that clubs think it's unfashionable to give Arsenal money at times

 

Romano says that we are prepping to acquire a #2 GK leading many to believe that we have found a buyer for Rams or have changed our stance on a loan.

 

If we spend that much on a backup ********ing goalkeeper...

Guess how much City spent on Ortega?

 

Liverpool trying to spend 40 on a GK that they are gonna immediately loan out to Bournemouth

 

Just looked up his Wiki. He’s at Espanyol. Been on senior team for 3+ years. Wears #1 shirt. Yethas only 17 appearances over that time

So it appears that he’s not actually their #1 choice keeper. Or he’s been injured a lot. What’s the word on Joan Garcia?