summer '22 transfer craziness and stupidity

[I am invisible]

I think he'll start in the left 8 position ahead of Xhaka and offer a bit of cover to Tierney when the inevitable injury happens.

Does this move mean Tielemans deal is dead? Or perhaps that will be reliant on Xhaka reading the room and moving on.

You know what, I’ve just read Tim Stillman’s column for the week and he makes a really good point - the fact that we moved for Martinez first, who we clearly wanted as an inverted LB, makes me think that we’re probably also looking at Zinchenko for the same role? Otherwise it’s all a bit scattergun.

The links to Tielemans and Paqueta also make a lot more sense if you assume he comes in in that LB role - with an overlapping LB you probably want more of a 6/8 on that side who spends more time dropping into a double-pivot and/or covering the LB, but with an inverted LB you probably want more of an attacking 8/10 in left midfield who stays forward, with the LB stepping up to be the deep playmaker at the base of midfield.

I guess the good think about Zinchenko is he gives us both options.

[Mac76]

he offers so much more physical and tactical agility than Xhaka.

True, but then so does a bollard

[Marc Overmars]

57m for Martinez.

Glad we swerved that, especially if Zinchenko is available.

[I am invisible]

57m for Martinez.

Glad we swerved that, especially if Zinchenko is available.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFeVfwDvTyM

[Ralpheroo72]

Leroy Sane? Surely not

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1137089984...tt_central_top

[Globalgunner]

Leroy Sane? Surely not

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1137089984...tt_central_top

Not too sure about that one. Good player but I will use the ephemeral Wenger quote "Where will we play him" We are chock full of options in his position now. Ideally now we need a central striker of a different type from Jesus e.g Ollie Watkins of Villa or the chap from Everton Calvert-Lewin. After that and with Zinchenko likely to arrive, we would be about complete......apart from selling that Mutton head Xhaka.

Arteta will really have no hiding place if he fails again this season

[Mac76]

Not too sure about that one. Good player but I will use the ephemeral Wenger quote "Where will we play him" We are chock full of options in his position now. Ideally now we need a central striker of a different type from Jesus e.g Ollie Watkins of Villa or the chap from Everton Calvert-Lewin. After that and with Zinchenko likely to arrive, we would be about complete......apart from selling that Mutton head Xhaka.

Arteta will really have no hiding place if he fails again this season

100% correct

[HCZ_Reborn]

I’d rather spring for Sane than pay over thirty million for a player in a position where we don’t need a player

Oh Zinchenko is versatile? Great I mean that’s much better than signing the central midfielder we desperately need (if Partey ends up in the slammer we are looking at a midfield of Elneny and Xhaka for the season…that’s the level of negligence that ranks alongside the guy who worked for Townsend Thoresen who literally couldn’t be bothered to check if the car hold bulkhead doors were closed before the Herald of Free Enterprise left port…enquiries need to be held)

How many fucking defenders do we have on the books, how many of them are we going to even be able to offload and yet we keep signing more of them. At this point I don’t question Arteta’s transfer strategy, I question his sanity

[Marc Overmars]

Sane would be an electric signing tbh.

I think if we can bag Tielemans it would give a more rounded and complete look to our summer. I do worry about our centre midfield options.

Tierney would be lucky to play more than 30 games a season so Zinchenko would be a valuable addition to the squad.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I think he'll start in the left 8 position ahead of Xhaka and offer a bit of cover to Tierney when the inevitable injury happens.

Does this move mean Tielemans deal is dead? Or perhaps that will be reliant on Xhaka reading the room and moving on.

Hopefully Tielemans in and Xhaka getting the hint