Don't see Gabriel going anywhere. PSG and Bayern are in easier leagues but Arsenal are fairly equal when it comes to the CL. Why would he move? Money? Can't see that. Trophies? Possibly, at least league and domestic cups but in a in 2 weeks that may be moot as well as going forward. Saudi money? That's usually what players do when they are in their last big contract
To get down after a game I’m envisioning a parachute concession followed by a replay of Les Nessman’s Thanksgiving Day reporting for WKRP.
MLS revived his Arsenal career. We'll have to see if Arteta may use Nwaneri in the same position(s) he played in the youth set up. The positions I think we are most desperate for are striker and left wing. I've made it known I'd love a Fabregas type. Odegaard started out like that and regressed a bit. Itz not Eze's style. I thought we were getting that with Zubi. He's a good player, but doesn't do the killer pass thing as much as I'd like and that may be because of the movement or lack thereof of our forward players. If we get Alvarez its a game changer. We're about to make more money than we have ever made before. And I know we paid 100 mil plus for Rice but something tells me we won't do it for Alvarez. My spider senses say Kofane. As far as the wing, a couple of good young players are linked to us.
If Arsenal signs a striker, it would have to be dependenant on selling Viktor and or Kai. Arsenal aren't going to employ 3 $$$ salaried 9s. And I doubt any true world-class striker is going to be interested in coming to a team with 2 established 9s. If they keep both, I would think signing a young understudy or someone who can play both LW and 9, is the route Arsenal will go.
Who is on the striker market that we could possibly get? Seems like Alvarez is the only possiblity, because all the possible suspects moved last summer.
Arsenal are interested in signing West Ham United’s Mateus Fernandeshttps://t.co/y2Qnb79vcG— Gary Jacob (@garyjacob) May 14, 2026
BTW Kai and Jackson's numbers are not what people think. Kai gets a lotta credit for whatever reason. Look at Jackson's numbers they're better.
I won't speculate on the opinion but of the two, Kai is younger by a year and arguably the better striker, irrespective of Gyokeres recent form .Kai has been far more consistent. Gyokeres does have staying healthy in his corner. Berta must get the credit or the blame whether or not Gyokeres works out or not. Yes, I'll say it, had we gotten Sesko as I wanted we'd be doing a march of honour vs Burnley by now and maybe a trophy under our belts. Not that Sesko is any world beater but we'd be much better had he come instead.
The Gulf States have a lot of baked in costs to their population. As far as the high paid sales, gotta move Jesus, maybe Magalhaes, Trossard, White, Norgaard on.
Mentioned him earlier in this thread. Give him a extra signing-on bonus for taking the extra touch so Raya could make the save last week.
Like his age profile and EPL experience. Also long as he doesn't prevent MLS from getting minutes I would be 100% on board.
I agree with you that Nico Jackson is undervalued by most supporters (though being at the clubs he’s been at suggest he is properly valued by professionals), but comparing his numbers to Havertz seems kinda pointless. Havertz is an insanely good footballer who is kind of positionless. Jackson is a forward. No matter where Havertz actually plays, he’s giving you center forward, 10, center midfield and right wing juice all at the same time and is a demon off the ball. Speculating, but I’m betting that if you put his data in the radar templates for any of those positions he’d look like an above average player. Obvious caveat is the last 15 months fitness issues. We don’t really know if he’s ever going to be the player he was again.
This tells me you have not looked at the numbers. Which is perfectly and EYE KNOW you ain't bringing Havertz in midfield to the table when that was utter dross of a stretch. Come on man. You like Havertz, fine but Havertz midfield prop is shameless. Then again what else is new. You like him great, you got it bro LOL.
I had very simililar thoughts but not as nicely articulated. Including that this comparison seems to call for the radars, as much as I don't really like them. But only if the radars aren't tweaked to favor the creator's priors about one player or the other. But what those might not show is that all-important last sentence about which one is more likely to have the best ability... availability. Edit: I now see that Dutch did post some radars already! But are they skewed by priors? Do they represent fairly?
Why would Chelsea loan him to Bayern this season, was it just incompetence, making room for the “shiny” new pieces or are there other issues?
Jackson is a super sub for a team that is stacked in a poorer league Havertz has been injured most of the season and is not a standard striker Jackson would not be any better than gyokores for us
So looking at a striker template only proves I haven’t looked at numbers. Love you, bro, but read my post. Alright, I haven’t had the energy for this and maybe still don’t, but here goes: You’ve constantly told us you are only about data, but for example your data wrt to Gyökeres that you’ve been on about has nothing to do with his data, it had to do with league translation. It’s true nobody has translated a Portuguese scoring record to England, but no one ever suggested they would. Gyök’s actual data was a sea of beautiful green. Would it be as unbelievable in England? Of course not. And nobody said it would be. (But as an aside, if scoring 50 fvcking goals a year was so easy in Portugal, why doesn’t somebody do it all the time?) And you bring up eye test as if I’m using it to evaluate Havertz, but then use it to dismiss him in midfield. I don’t know, man. I don’t think my view is as laughable as you imply. Maybe you just like Nico. And that’s fine. But EYE KNOW. Etc etc.
Numbers alone are hard to quantify he’s in a team that won the league by a landslide and is stacked with attacking talent making chances I think the Jackson we saw at Chelsea was a lot different
New LW link I am seeing this morning..... 20yo Ivorian Bazoumana Toure who currently plays for Hoffenheim. Left-footer that plays almost exclusively on LW. Just turned 20 in Feb. 5g 9a in Germany. Has international experience. Likes to dribble & whip crosses. Appears willing to track back and pitch in defensively. Have yet to see a highlight of him doing anything with is right foot. TM claims he is worth 35m euro.
I dont like any of these players LOL I just think they're all the same interchangeable. That's where I differ from most of you. Whoever you platform will give you the same numbers. I don't think Kai is anything special, neither is Jackson. Same guy. I don't think any players on this particular team are special, they're just JAGs. You get a team you coach em up and you get output. There's a few special players, outliers, everyone else is interchangeable. The marketing makes people think otherwise, I just don't fall for it. The special players get special numbers within a system. The JAGs are guys like Kai and Jackson and whoever else you wanna name.
Pretty expensive for a LW. I thought one of the reasons that he moved from city was because he didn't want to play the wing anymore? https://www.footballtransfers.com/e...e-arsenals-surprising-plan-for-julian-alvarez
But Nico and Kai are not the same player at all. That was my point. And if you think every player outside of generational outliers are JAG I’m not sure your stance holds up to any scrutiny. There are varying degrees of player quality. Both Havertz and Jackson are clearly better than most players in world football, and I don’t think I’ve been sold that idea by hype or the media or whatever.