Nico just scored another goal and this one was awesome.
Every transfer is a risk but I’m sold on him as a good gamble. The talent is really there.
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If he signs an extension he’d be a backup on over 300K a week that is really only decent in one postion where he wouldn’t play an awful lot, I don’t think it’s worth it tbh
Fair point about the wage, still can’t believe he’s on that.
If Guimaraes signs for Arsenal you can guarantee every challenge he makes for us will be a booking. Xhaka 2.0 if we’re not careful.
I can’t see that we would look to sign Guimaraes. If Newcastle make it into the CL next season, they aren’t selling any of their top players. If they don’t make it into the CL, we’ll be after Isak first and if we were able to sign him, there is no way Newcastle are letting go two of their best players.
Nice of our new sporting director to be telling the Twitterati all about the players we will be going for in the summer.
Heck, he hasn’t even had time to meticulously arrange his pencil sharpener and Antoine Griezmann bobblehead at his new desk space yet.
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This summer will be crazier than normal given all the rumours flying around already.
Feels like its pretty much the same players that were all rumoured as targets last year. Isak, Bruno, Sesko, Williams, the spanish GK
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Twitter ITKs are rehashing the same stories because the rules on the platform mandate that. Every shit rumour has to be repeated at least a few dozen times before it dies, only to resurface in the next cycle.
We could have picked up Kolo Muani or Morata. We could have paid the release fee for Gyokeres or Osimhen - we didn’t. We probably could have bagged Duran or Watkins.
This summer had better fucking bring a top class goal scorer because we fucked the January window.
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We probably didn’t sign anyone because we have players lined up in the next window but anything less than at least two top quality attacking players that can walk into the first team means the board have stopped backing Arteta financially.
Since the window when we bought Havertz, our net spend has been very little and the supporters expectations are going to be high so Arteta, Berta and the board are going to be under a lot of pressure to deliver.
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@SRCJJ has been saying for ages that his long term future is as a midfielder. Can clearly play a number of positions. Personally like him at left-back inverting into midfield. Also for England, we lack a quality left-back so he could fill this role nicely for the national team.
If we wanted to play him more in midfield, we could opt to sign another left-back, in which case I would personally favour Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth.
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Tuchel needs to be put him in the middle on the international stage - Rice & MLS double whammy.
A nice little trial run for next season on Arsenal’s behalf.
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Think he’ll stay LB next season and move to midfield after.
Had him down as the real Partey replacement after an extension but if Partey doesn’t get extended we likely buy someone and block his path there a bit.
Central midfield in the Premier League is a big ask. I’m not suggesting that MLS doesn’t have the ability, but you hardly ever see teenagers regularly playing cm in the Prem. Happy for him to stay at full back for now.
Cala/Timber to cover LB, White/Timber for RB.
MLS has the minerals to play CM.
Three players covering positions where we’re notorious for picking up injuries screams danger to me
We’ve got the ever reliable Tomiyasu as back up to the back up though. Made out of titanium is that kid.
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Are you not aware that there is a default sum of money set aside for the summer to sign a new LB regardless of what else we do in the transfer window?
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