I agree with most of those, although I would keep Nketiah, unless another club offers 40m or more.
A few of my mates go to West Ham and say he’s consistently a level above all the other players, which might not be that great but he is very highly rated there.
We need about four quality players for key positions but that won’t happen in this window and Arteta will have to prioritise just a couple of positions to strengthen significantly.
So getting a Haaland type striker to replace Jesus will have to wait, especially as scoring hasn’t really been an issue for us.
I think Arteta will get another experienced CB and RB, but the bulk of the budget will be on a midfielder to replace Xhaka and possibly another to cover for Partey but if he wants PL quality, which seems to be his preference, then he’ll need at least another 100m, after the sales of surplus players.
It might be two players or just one player who can play both RB and RCB but that area of the pitch has really skyrocketed to the top of the priority list.
The team fell apart when Saliba got injured and Tomiyasu’s injury also took away our best Plan B. But the decisive game of the season might have been the City home loss where Tomiyasu killed us as well. In an alternative universe where we had one more really good right sided defender, we at least draw that City home game (improving by 3 points vis-a-vis City), convert 1-2 of the West Ham/Soton/Liverpool draws into wins and the title is still well in our hands even after a loss at the Etihad. The margin for error is so thin when competing with City, you can’t afford to have players the quality of Tomiyasu and Holding as your only right-sided defensive backups for a whole season.
I’m a bit worried that Arteta and Edu think 1 CDM and perhaps a backup option is enough for us to challenge. It really isn’t. We’re 2-3 rungs below the opposition. I know we’re not gonna have £200m to spend this summer, but hopefully if we can sell more dross, that should give us some leeway to add some options.
Can’t we find a Martinelli-esque CDM from the 4th division of Brazil again for £6m? and spend the rest in other key areas
God almighty “Are Arsenal still in the title race?” clickbait alert.
As tedious as the thousands of “Can Arsenal win the title?” videos up until the recent weeks.
This is my first title run in the social media/You Tube era and it’s been one desperate attempt to get likes after another.
Open to it now. The kid has talent, but will he ever be of the level to get us close to City? Unconvinced. Could be a Willock - will flourish elsewhere.
40m would do nicely. Trossard can more than do a job upfront as back up to the back up (our new striker).
Backup GK if Turner leaves for more minutes (would like a GK with experience)
new RB pushing Holding out of the club (I like Fresneda a lot)
new LB if Tierney wants to leave and if Arteta want to continue to use him as playmaking LB (I’m in favour of promoting Lino Sousa and use Kiwior as LB)
new DM (Caicedo, Zubimendi, Rice, Ugarte)
new LMF (Kudus, Mount, Vitinha, Tielemans, Renato Sanches)
new FW (Vlahovic, Hojlund, Ekitike, Fabio Silva, Zirkzee)
and spend the rest in other key areas
