Off goes Maitland-Niles to Roma says SSN. Deal agreed in principle.
On loan.
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Off goes Maitland-Niles to Roma says SSN. Deal agreed in principle.
On loan.
Must be a deal already in place for someone new if we've sanctioned this this early in the window. Might not be a big move - could even be a loan - but we must have something lined up, right?
because AMN's so essential to us?Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Allegri has said Ramsey is leaving Juventus, bet he ends up at Newcastle
Because we've got 2 CMs left for the next month and one of them's a ticking time-bomb...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
fair point :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
:haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
I hope so. If we don't have anything in place then it's lunacy. It could potentially destroy our season and momentum for a top 4 finish. It's actually the kind of thing Wenger use to do, sell half our team and fail to replace them.....but anyway I am guessing they have maybe 1 or 2 deals lined up, I don't even care if they are loans as long as they are quality players who can help us now. I am happy for them to address Central Midfield in the summer. We are going to be very busy again in the Market in the summer, likely need a new midfielder, possibly 2. At least 2 Forwards (assuming Laca, Nketiah and Auba are leaving), a back up keeper to replace Leno who I assume will leave and then possibly a backup right back.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Yeah, I reckon you're not far off the mark there - one of the CMs and one of the FWs will obviously depend on certain players leaving, but the rest of it looks about right to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Personally, I'd be looking at the backup RB as a priority, I rate Tomi that highly! So many other players and their roles just clicked and made sense once we added him - really balanced the side. Doesn't have to be a big signing - I'd be very happy with another well-scouted, Nuno-like unknown - but it does need to be the same profile. I'm already feeling like we're going to feel his every absence every bit as much as we felt Tierney's before we signed Nuno, so the sooner we can get this done the better (aside from anything else, I suspect Tomi will prove to be the best cover we have for both White and Gabriel until we can bring Saliba home, so it solves that problem too).
Going to be fascinating to see what we do with forwards - it's the one area that Arteta hasn't been able to invest in yet, and the only hint we really have for his preference is Laca over Auba.
Well we may have dodged a bullet Coutinho close to agreeing a loan deal with Villa https://www.skysports.com/football/n...ona-midfielder.
This goes along with his wish to move to a premiership team with ambition :unsure:
Please let that happen! I'm so fucking bored of Coutinho-to-Arsenal talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
Would have taken Coutinho on loan. Too expensive and past his best for a permanent deal but there’s no doubt he’s the kind of player who’s capable of making an explosive impact at least for the short term.
I don’t believe we have many big game players at the moment who can turn matches with moments of brilliance. We have a solid enough team but it’s a team that’s also lost 7 times, with most of those defeats being against the teams we want to compete with.
Done deal signed for Villa on loan with an option to buy :)Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Oh well, at least we'll get 5-6 months off before it starts again...Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
sounds like Palace plus another PL club are trying to buy Nketiah - let's hope that goes through... :pray:
Sounds like we're going hard for Vlahovic from Fiorentina.
Never seen him play.
Ticks pretty much every box as a CF - really is a complete striker. Just question marks over whether he’s sold on Arsenal.
Can’t really blame him for that, tbh - most non-Arsenal fans even in this country haven’t really been paying much attention to what we’ve been doing until recently either, so I’m not surprised we’ve gone under most players’ radars on the content. We really have been a complete non-event for neutrals for a while now, if not an outright joke!
All the same though, I’d only push for him if his stance towards us has changed and he now sees this as a project that he really wants to be a part of. Otherwise I’d move on to other targets.
Probably Brighton - basically all the clubs that could have easily had him in the summer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Although I also wouldn’t be surprised if we made one final attempt to keep him.
While we're still in cup competitions Arteta will pick Nketiah hoping to convince him to sign another contract, but unless he starts a few premiership games (which with injuries AFCON apart) isn't going to happen.
I can still see a future for Eddie if he can be converted to a wide forward. As a CF, though? I wouldn’t really want to use him there any more regularly than we think about playing Martinelli there, and would probably rather sell. We’ve already got that kind of CF option in Auba and it’s clearly not what we’re building around - what does Eddie do as a CF that’s any different to Auba?Quote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
What we do clearly have a preference for is energetic wide-forwards who press hard, force turnovers and pop up in those half spaces to score. We tried to convert Auba to be that kind of forward, but he either wasn’t willing or wasn’t able. And we’ve spent the last year working on Martinelli in the background to get him ready and he’s been an absolute revelation there since coming back into the side! Could something similar be done with Eddie? And would he be willing? The worry I have with him is that he might have a bit if the Ainsleys about him where he’d rather be an average CF for a shite team than do the job that needs doing in a good team.
Well it's confirmed Maitland-Niles has fooked off to Roma on loan for the rest of the season, good luck. You'll need it :blink:
Let's hope not, he's shit, get ridQuote:
Originally Posted by dazthegooner
Centre mid needed ASAP.
You've been linked with Wijnaldum. You should do literally everything in your power to get him.
If we don't bring in one or maybe even two quality Centre mids in the next few weeks then our season will be over by the end of next month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooner23
He would become our best midfielder by a country mile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaqiri Is Boss
Yep I hope we push for this loan. He would be a certified starter for us. He is PL adapted and a quality player, we won't get a better player right now on the market.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Him and that young Brazilian CM we are linked with would be good business for our Midfield IMO.
Aye, agree with this. Tomi is a baller, one of our best and most important players for me. Arteta and Edu have a lot of work still to do with the squad but it's definitely going in the right direction with what they did in the Summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Balogun has gone to Boro on loan.
At least we’ve tied him down for a few years now. Would like to see him in the mix next season though, as we will be awfully light up front soon enough.
They're all going out the door now we're out of the FA Cup
Apparently Nketiah is in talks with Palace too, our squad will be threadbare by the end of this window, I hope we have at least 1 striker and 1 midfielder lined up. Starting to panic.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
sending Balogun on loan is insane - he's miles better than Nketiah who we should offload if we've the chance...Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Arteta and Edu had better be bloody sure about this Vlahovic chase! Otherwise I hope Emile is a better false 9 now than he was last season!Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
i'd rather have Chambers at CF than Nketiah and i'm not even joking - Chambo's scored and assisted a few good goals in his timeQuote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Good move for Balogun this - he doesn't look quite ready for first-team PL football yet, but he's clearly way past the point where u23 football is providing much of a challenge or teaching him anything. Playing men's football every week in a slightly weaker league will do him far more good than being chucked in for a game here and a game there for us...
https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/13/arsen...o=newsnow-feedQuote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Looks like Odegaard is the latest injury. He has not travelled to Anfield :(
It is not looking good is it.
Yeah, I'm not a fan at CF. I could see him maybe working as a wide attacker, if he was willing to take a step back and spend a bit of time learning the role, but nothing about him works as a modern CF.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Basically he's Aubameyang, but without the world-class pedigree and proven track record - what use is that us if we don't want Auba?
Hey, maybe they'll postpone the game for us? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chippy
Vlahovic scored again, against Napoli tonight.
I know he looks like Darren Anderton found steroids but sign him up.
Erm, we should do everything we can to get the Spuds game cancelled on Sunday, we have ten players out 🥺.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
PS
Xhaka is a stupid cu#t.