If Southampton get relegated, Tyler Dibling would be a really nice left-footed, right wing option behind Saka.
I was thinking this the other day. He is absolutely worth watching. Feel like Arteta would have taken great notice of his efforts yesterday. And maybe it's fitting that he is a former Chelsea youth.
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Nothing else going in this thread right now. Outside of injury concerns, Isak would be a phenomenal signing. He and Havertz up top in a 4-4-2 double pivot false 9 kind of setup would be very interesting.
Yeah, that did seem pretty click-bait-y. But you know what they say about stopped clocks.... so maybe just maybe????
January is going to depend on whether the title race is still on, right now that looks tough, so the approach might be getting a jump start on summer business, bring a player or two in and give them 6 mo to bed in before the following season. Keeper will probably wait until summer when Neto's loan ends, see where the youngster are at. Tierney will go. If Zinchenko has been passed by MLS he needs to be sold or go on loan. Tomiyasu can't stay fit and needs to go. I like Kiwior as a backup and at least he stays healthy but he should go if a good offer comes in. Partey and Jorginho are both up in the summer. I think Partey stays thru June. Jorginho would be more likely to leave early if the offer is right. Sterling and Jesus are washed. Sterling's loan will likely play out, but I can see Jesus jumping at an offer in Jan if the money is right and the playing time is available. Not going to land the best players in January, but if they can unload a couple and bring in a couple younger depth pieces, that would lessen the amount of business necessary in the summer.
With his fitness record and especially his current absence, who would buy Tomiyasu in January? Would seem a bit nuts.
Fair point. Maybe someone in Serie A thinks he will hold up better in their league and he's worth the risk now? While another 6 months of injury-plagued time in England will make that less likely? The alternative is keeping him until his contract expires in 2026 and being happy with any production he provides, but being smart enough not to rely on him.
Since we're posting nonsense rumors, I heard one last week we had an "in" for Duran. He definitely interests me, but there's no way he'd leave Villa for us unless we offered stupid money in fees and salary.
He wanted to leave Villa for West Ham like 2 months ago. But I think he signed an extension a couple of weeks ago, so he's not going anywhere.
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United aren't listed and don't need a striker with Zirkzee and Hojlund but I could see Amorim wanting to reunite in the summer.
With all the ex Ajax players in their team, United might have become skeptical of chasing a coach’s former players.
Lol, I hope they don't learn any lessons from ten Hag. I wonder if there will be a purge of those guys? Arteta was interested in Lisandro Martinez before signing Zinchenko, there's no way he'd sign him now, but it would be a fun experiment to see how many red cards he would get while wearing an Arsenal shirt.
If Arteta and Edu were fund managers they'd be relieved of their duties cause the ROI on their £700m investment would be scrutinized. There is no way Edu should be allowed to continue in his role. He's been an abject failure, and Arteta's choices of players needs to be questioned as well. So far the verdict is a resounding failure. Well, unless you think Top 4 is a trophy, then by all means carry on.
Over the last 5 years, the net spend is about $550m. We've gotten some gems but we have bought a lot of dross. As a club, we are historically bad at efficient talent management. Both in the purchasing and selling of talent. Edu has been poor and ownership needs to take a serious look into someone new. This last transfer season alone is fire-worthy.
We got about £80 million this summer by selling our backup goalkeeper, a striker who hadn't scored in the league in 10 months, and a midfielder who played 475 minutes last season. That's a great return for that collection of players. I tend to lay the blame at Arteta's feet for not maximizing our outbound transfer fees though, because he doesn't rotate well, and it's very clear when players aren't wanted at the club. Like, in his last 4 seasons at Arsenal, Reiss Nelson started one league game. Of course no one's going to pay for him. The lack of big-time inbound transfers this summer probably comes down to us spending a ton in 2023 - we have to be close to bumping up against FFP sanctions.
So that's like saying "I invested £700m in commercial real estate in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, but I managed to recoup some of that by selling £100m of Bitcoin in 2024"
Edu and Arteta have been abject. Again, imagine that their transfer business were another club. You would be laughing your ass off at their incompetence. The Rice/Havertz transfer combo alone is pathetic. If Arsenal win this year, only then can you even pretend that those transfers were good.
Only one of those players was purchased so it's not even a little bit like that. Also: Sorry, what? Deranged take. Not even worth engaging with seriously.
That's why this club is where it is at. Hopefully one day someone with a brain will take charge and we'll actually win stuff, instead of just "Vybin" and being "Player FC". Hopefully the title drought won't be as long as LFC's. Life is funny that way.