Summer Transfer Shit and Everything Else

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Isn’t Merino supposed to be a Rodri kind of player? I’m guessing he will share the load with Partey so Rice can continue to play a more box to box role.

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He can and has played across the midfield in his career. Though it's more likely he plays the Xhaka role in our setup which hopefully helps out Martinelli (I think HCZ has complained about the loss of Xhaka affecting his performances, so lets see).

Anyway he has played successfully with Odegaard in the past so lets hope he integrates into the team ASAP and we hopefully achieve a more fluid midfield that doesn't rely too heavily on Odegaard orchestrating everything or the need for a Zinchencko as a counterbalance.

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Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE

He can and has played across the midfield in his career. Though it's more likely he plays the Xhaka role in our setup which hopefully helps out Martinelli (I think HCZ has complained about the loss of Xhaka affecting his performances, so lets see).

Anyway he has played successfully with Odegaard in the past so lets hope he integrates into the team ASAP and we hopefully achieve a more fluid midfield that doesn't rely too heavily on Odegaard orchestrating everything or the need for a Zinchencko as a counterbalance.

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I did say that about Xhaka, however at the risk of sounding like I’m provoking an argument it was more in relation to how when looking at the passing distribution when Havertz was playing in that role….there was almost no attempt towards distributing the ball towards Martinelli’s side of the field


I think we all agree (or at least I think we do) that our attacks seem to be overly focused on the right hand side of the pitch allowing defences to double up on Saka. But Martinelli is not without fault, I think he cuts inside too often into a congested middle of the park rather than try and take it to the line and either cross or run in behind his full back.


I’m a big fan of GM, but there’s no argument that last season was poor both in performance and goal return. And I guess to that end if Merino is making sure he gets more of the ball, he’s got nowhere to hide

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

at the risk of sounding like I’m provoking an argument

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I can't imagine anyone on here would think you'd do something like that.

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Originally Posted by Letters

I can't imagine anyone on here would think you'd do something like that.

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Says the person who is arguing with me about Transgender issues even though we largely agree on the subject :lol:

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

Says the person who is arguing with me about Transgender issues even though we largely agree on the subject :lol:

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I didn't say I was any better :lol:

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Originally Posted by Letters

I didn't say I was any better :lol:

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Just as long as you’re not

Vieira linked with a loan move back to Porto. If he goes Eddie and Nelson goes we are leaving ourselves dangerously low on squad options without someone else coming in

Can’t say I’m surprised, Vieira has ability but I don’t think he’s anywhere near robust enough for the PL.

I presume Nwaneri will take his spot in the squad.

Confirmed by Ornstein

In fairness thinking about it now that’s six midfielders for three positions Partey, Jorginho, Rice, Nwaneri, Merino and Odegaard


Where we are thin (assuming Nketiah and Nelson go) is the front three positions with five players for those three positions

Like I said earlier, he's never shown his quality and has been given more than enough time to shine compared to others.

Hopefully Nwaneri will get more of a chance than Smith-Rowe did, though TBH I'm not bowled over by what I've seen from him.

However, it is important that Arteta is actually able to introduce academy prospects and grow them (all the others were either introduced to the 1st team by AW or Emery). Maybe if we'd been acting like this earlier and been more ruthless with passengers like Vieira, we'd have youngsters thinking there is a pathway and maybe still have that Chido Martins kid in our books.