Summer Transfer Shit and Everything Else

For me both Nketiah and Balogun are currently more or less level in terms of value. We only have to look at Lacazette last season to put the level of League 1 into context. I see his performance of last season as little different from Eddie being record goal scorer for England under 21. Maybe Balogun has more potential - we haven't seen him in the EPL, but to counter that, while Nketiah does not appear to be top 4 level, he at least has a track record of playing there, and was useful for us when used as a starter.

Eddie is used to how we play, wants to be at the club and for good or ill is liked by the Manager. Balogun's value could easily be the highest its going to get, so the sensible move would be to sell him.

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Originally Posted by IBK

Eddie is used to how we play

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...but despite that is generally ineffective

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Originally Posted by IBK

wants to be at the club

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I'd love to be at the club too but like Eddie I'm not up to, so don't exepct to be

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Originally Posted by IBK

and for good or ill is liked by the Manager.

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I'll go for 'ill'

We’re interested in David Raya.

He’s a decent but I’m not sure we need to be spending 30-40m on a keeper. Ramsdale needs real competition but I’d a little confused if we went for someone as good as Raya. I don’t think he’d be signing as a number two so it would be quite interesting how that pans out. Has Arteta gone cold on Ramsdale?

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

We’re interested in David Raya.

He’s a decent but I’m not sure we need to be spending 30-40m on a keeper. Ramsdale needs real competition but I’d a little confused if we went for someone as good as Raya. I don’t think he’d be signing as a number two so it would be quite interesting how that pans out. Has Arteta gone cold on Ramsdale?

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Ramsdale is a funny one.

He's been quite poor this pre-season and it can be said he was one of the players who weren't at their best earlier this year when our season crumbled.

However, there is no doubt that he stood up to be counted in a lot of matches last season and was one of the players we would have to give plaudits for the turnaround in our defending.....at least in the 1st half of the season.

But he is also terrible at penalties, which is extremely strange for a keeper supposedly playing for a team that should be winning trophies.

I saw this earlier today, and though I'd prefer that 40m spent on Kudus or some other attacking force, I think Ramsdale needs real competition.

He doesn't fill me with as much confidence as he did a while back, that's the summary really.

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Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE

Ramsdale is a funny one.

He's been quite poor this pre-season and it can be said he was one of the players who weren't at their best earlier this year when our season crumbled.

However, there is no doubt that he stood up to be counted in a lot of matches last season and was one of the players we would have to give plaudits for the turnaround in our defending.....at least in the 1st half of the season.

But he is also terrible at penalties, which is extremely strange for a keeper supposedly playing for a team that should be winning trophies.

I saw this earlier today, and though I'd prefer that 40m spent on Kudus or some other attacking force, I think Ramsdale needs real competition.

He doesn't fill me with as much confidence as he did a while back, that's the summary really.

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I don’t know how I feel about this, I haven’t seen any example where two top keepers at one club has ever really worked

If Turner was any good he would be providing the competition to Ramsdale. Turns out we are looking to sell him to Forest

My preference would be to go for someone a bit older, who doesn’t mind being on the bench for long spells but has the experience and ability to step up if needed. Someone like Guaita from Palace.

I like Ramsdale a lot and I really don't think we need Raya.

But then, I liked Leno and didn't think we needed Ramsdale, so what do I know?

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Originally Posted by GP

I like Ramsdale a lot and I really don't think we need Raya.

But then, I liked Leno and didn't think we needed Ramsdale, so what do I know?

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Could sort of see the logic in that considering Leno wasn’t Arteta’s man. Ramsdale is though.

Weird move.

Maybe Arteta is thinking Raya could be our keeper in the CL and in the cups with Ram just playing PL games, it's the only way this makes sense for me

Ram won't take being on the bench all season for sure, he'll be gone in January if that happens

A Saudi club have offered Napoli 140m for Osimhen. Just the 1m a week in wages too.

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Originally Posted by Mac76

Maybe Arteta is thinking Raya could be our keeper in the CL and in the cups with Ram just playing PL games, it's the only way this makes sense for me

Ram won't take being on the bench all season for sure, he'll be gone in January if that happens

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Didn’t Barcelona do that with Ter Stegen and the Dutch fella?