I remember a couple of trips to Villa Park back in the day for FA Cup semi-finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
Utter tip around there.
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I remember a couple of trips to Villa Park back in the day for FA Cup semi-finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
Utter tip around there.
it is interesting as it could be just a bid out of curiousity, or a bit with a idea that we might be open to the idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
why not swap with Grealish and we give up a bit of cash.
Don’t see any point in entertaining offers for ESR. He will be an important part of the team over the next few years.
We could do worse than go for Ukraine’s keeper. The bloke at Sheffield United is nowhere near this guy.
Oh yes, me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
FA Cup Semi-Final (83?) Arsenal 1 Man Utd 2 (watched the running battles going on outside whilst safely in the Holte End)
Villa 2 Arsenal 6 (Tony Woodcock scored 5) The train was pelted with bottles pulling out of Aston staion (it might have been you Dad's friends, lol).
Villa 3 Arsenal 2 (that was the day the parachutist hit the roof (lost us the game IMHO)
Oh the memories! ;)
Newcastle are looking to sign Willock for cash plus a player.... what player exactly would we want from newcastle? At a push Maxim perhaps but the rest make our players look dynamic
Do we have a better No.9 than Callum Wilson?
Time for Big Andy to come home.
Freddie Woodman makes sense - we need a backup keeper, and we ideally want that player to be homegrown, so we don’t waste one of our valuable non-HG squad places on someone who probably isn’t going to play much.
Might be the cheapest way of doing it? Anything with ‘home-grown’ in the title usually comes at a premium (just look at the price that was mooted for Ramsdsle!) and, again, we don’t want to be spending big sums on a backup who likely won’t feature that often.
is Leno still maybe leaving? i heard he wanted to go?
Thought Donnarumma was available on a free apparently PSG are on the verge of signing him...
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Originally Posted by Mac76
The impression I'm getting is that both sides would be open to him moving on, but both sides are also well aware that he could end up staying (e.g. if we can't get a replacement, or we don't receive a good enough offer for him, etc), so everyone is playing it very neutral and non-committal.
I think you count us out of that one - he'll have his pick of clubs, if he's on a free. If we can get Onana for the rumoured €2-7m then I'd call that a win.Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
We have apparently had a £50m bid accepted for Ben White.
Seems like a lot of money for a position we're pretty stacked in. Definitely wouldn't have been my priority.
Fools and their money are soon parted. Arteta is as clueless as a cook deployed to NASA
Sacked by Xmas. Im banking on it
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Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Do NASA have notoriously poor catering? :unsure:
You try fitting a fillet steak in a red wine jus, with fondant potato and steamed vegetables into a vacume pack and make it look nice :sulk:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Is this actually done then? Or as good as?
sounds like it... very promising. seems alot although i guess it will hit 50m if we do well and win things so its probably pretty safe it wont reach that. but we are spoilt for choice at CB and i assume this means we wont be using the guy who we bought but doesnt play for us that i cant remember his name at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Saliba:. Tearing it up in the French league, I hear but obviously not good enough for Arteta. Going all out to fill a vacancy that really wasnt there. Moreover, I hear this chap is barely 6ft tall, so buying us another handicap right there, unless Mr Sauce wants to deploy him as Gunnersaurus replacement in which case height wont really be an issueQuote:
Originally Posted by Bumble
It's a strange one.
We just sold Mavropanos for peanuts as well today.
I thought he looked promising. Strange times. Especially when a slap and tickle, cash no questions is rifeQuote:
Originally Posted by Gooner23
Big money, but if you’re targeting the right profile of player then it becomes an investment and not an expense. These sums only start to annoy me when we start chucking them at players who are north of 26/27 because once their first contract comes to an end there’s no resale value there if we need to reinvest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bumble
I do think this is an area that needs an upgrade, though, in spite of the number of CBs we have. We’ve been more solid over the last year or so, but a lot of the time I feel like it’s come at the expense of sitting too deep and leaving the midfield too stretched - one of the reasons we’ve struggled to link defence to attack, and often fail to maintain pressure on opponents in their half. At the moment none of our CBs are the complete package - they either lack the athleticism needed to cover distance or they lack passing ability and ball-control that’s necessary to contribute going forward.
Ironically, Saliba is probably the closest we have to the profile of defender that we want, but he has by far the least experience, and who TF knows what the state of his relationship with the club is like atm?
he obviously wasn't prepared to run around enough traffic conesQuote:
Originally Posted by LDG
His handful of games for us were mixed, and then he seemed to spend an eternity injured, but he's looked strong for Stuttgart in his time there.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
The fee does look low, but I guess if the deal includes add-ons and sell-on / buy-back clauses then I guess it might work out OK in the long-run? Plus it's not like there's a bidding war for him - if Stuttgart is the only interested party, then the price is going to drop.
(I also wonder if there's an element of repairing our relationship with Mislintat here? Greasing the wheel, just in case we ever need to raid Stuttgart for any new prospects he unearths?)
:haha: this is Arsenal mate - you can guarantee none of that stuff is in there...Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Mate, don't let the Saliba mess cloud your opinion of White - he's a very good player. Haven't read a bad word about him so far, and both Brighton and Leeds fans think we're getting a bargain, even at £50m. He was one of the stand-out players in the Championship with Leeds, thriving in a high-intensity Bielsa system, and in his first season in the Prem he was voted Brighton's POTY by their fans and called up into the England squad for the Euros. Plus I rate Potter as one of the best structural coaches in the league, so that bodes well for him coming in to work under Arteta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
I think we need to look at this in terms of the defence as a whole rather than just a straight choice between White and Saliba: can our main CB group of Gabriel, Holding, Mari and Saliba be upgraded by bringing in White? If the answer is yes (and for me it is) then we bring him in, no questions. If the weakest link then gets pushed out then that's their problem.
Let's see how things go when Saliba returns for preseason - I agree that it's not looking great, but I haven't completely given up on his time here yet. If he comes back determined to show everyone that he deserves to be here then who knows? It might end up being one of the other CBs who goes? I wouldn't even rule out keeping all 5 of them if we want the tactical flexibility to switch between a back 2 and a back 3. (Plus Mari seems to spend a lot of time out injured, so it may not be the worst idea in the world to have an extra man in there.)
I'm sure we used to regularly insert sell-on clauses into sales, didn't we? I was always getting 'Arsenal receive unexpected windfall' stories popping up on my news feeds at one point?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Hopefully the fact that we're will to spend £50m on White is a sign that attitudes towards player investment are starting to shift somewhere with the club.
'used to' is right, but that was before the Raul era, since then i think we've made some really bad deals - or else just let people like Ramsey go for nothingQuote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
They weren't just bad - some of them sound like they were borderline criminal! The Pepe deal without a doubt, but the more I look at it the dodgier the Saliba deal looks too? Wouldn't be surprised if there were others if someone really dug into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I quite like that Kalvin Phillips.... never really noticed him before playing for England but seems a strong CM versatile can sit deep plus be a creative force.
obviously he would be expensive and wont happen but would definitely add something to our midfield.
i agree but i'm sure a lot of clubs are saying the same - he may well not be at Leeds next seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by Bumble
He would get sent off 73 times a season if he was an Arsenal player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bumble
He would also have to get rid of that obnoxious man-bun
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Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Likewise there's no way Grealish is coming here until he's had a short back and sides :sulk:
Im deadly serious man. I hate girly haircuts on a dude. We dont want his sort around here
I'm serious too - no haircut, no GrealishQuote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Petit :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
And Seaman had a ponytail phase too.
Also :gp:Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner