IMO these talents listed aren’t that special though, only Haaland seems to be a generational talent the rest aren’t even close.
FWIW I agree with your point on Brighton’s business though and I would count Cucurella as a pretty decent find by Brighton, nobody was really talking about him and they’ve put him on the map.
It’s nothing to do with semantics. Your claim was wrong and as Leper pointed out, what you’re now stating is not what I was originally responding to.
This may well be more reflective of my current knowledge of wider European football than anything, but I’d say Cucurella was a relatively obscure player, I’d never heard of the cunt when Brighton signed him.
Fifteen news posts in here and not a whiff of a signing. Our window’s over comrades.
OA’s deadline day signing will be the return of Castiel.
Castiel and Bizzy double swoop!
Siu!
I miss Bizzy too. 
How come Bizzy went AWOL?
Looking at his last posts he did just lose the Best Actor OAscars to Jake…
Just a sudden stop…no hissy 
I really like the picture of random Arsenal shirts in that tweet. Adds a lot of value and hugely relevant. Great tweet and I am happier as a human being because of the image. Thank you Sash.
So we have 6 days to go.
No natural backup right winger that’s ready to play.
Still got Xhaka as a bonafide starter and are relying on Lokonga and Elneny if anything goes wrong with our CM’s.
I’d say right now we’ve had a reasonable window but not a super one, people have an inflated view of it due to winning our first 3 game.
Maybe if we can keep the same starting eleven for the next 35 matches it’ll matter little though, we haven’t had to make a change to the side yet.
Dunno the interest in Raphinha, the obvious shortages at CM and winger and Mikel repeatedly talking about ‘we need more’ must mean we’re on to something…right?
Surely Arsenal wouldn’t leave a squad 1/2 signings short of really being able to compete?
Arsenal have done this many times before, just praying under Arteta and Edu it’s different.
I think if we make no more signings we’re severely short on the wings and CM quality. Injuries will happen at some point especially when the EL campaigns starts.
Our current squad has us fighting tooth and nail for 4th at the death I reckon.
This paints a better picture. We’re gambling on Lokonga and Marquinhos to be adequate cover. We submit to Elneny being Partey’s cover, which as much as I like Elneny the system will then have to altered.
It’s well and dandy when everyone’s fit and we’re balling like we currently are, but good luck playing a game every 3-4 days starting from tomorrow. With some of our crocks it won’t be long before some of the players we know aren’t up to the required level are getting a run of games like we saw in the latter half last season.
It’ll all come unstuck if we don’t add, just relying on too many players that either aren’t to the level or not ready for it yet.
As things stand we’d only get away with it if we have the best injury run in the league.
Only players in that Image on the backup side I trust are White, Tierney, ESR (Depending on fitness), Vieira is TBD.
Shocking depth.
One too many gambles.
Gambling on Nketiah to be adequate cover to Jesus.
Gambling on Martinelli to get to the next level. Gambling on Saliba to have a good first season in the PL(be interesting to see how he fairs after some bad moments).
Gambling on Emile, Tierney and Partey to stay fit.
Gambling Saka to not break down.
Gambling on Lokonga, Marquinhos and Elneny to be adequate cover.
It’s worth remembering that once they gelled our first team last season wasn’t bad either. Fully fit Arsenal gave City(who were on top form at the time btw) a run for their money. In fact, that month is the perfect example of how shit can go bang in an instant. Partey went to AFCON, Tomiyasu got injured, Xhaka and Gabriel got a red and our team turned to shit.
We came back from a break. Most players got back fit again, and went on a run again. Then we lost Partey and Tierney on top of Tomiyasu who was already out and then we turned into shit again, we managed to recover a bit but by the time we went to Newcastle we had to field two unfit CBs and got practically mauled at St James’ Park.
