Eberechi Eze (10)

I fucking hope he keeps that swagger when he arrives. Don’t want him to be another cog in the system. We really miss that off the cuff type of player, unpredictable, like how Alexis Sanchez was.

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Agreed. Unpredictability is a great asset. It’s another facet of creativity.

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What news to wake up to!!

I knew we’d sign another attacker and I don’t think this has anything to do with Kai’s injury. Probably just made us pull the trigger sooner.

This is why I wanted him. He’s that player who can create something out of seemingly nothing. We need that X factor in the team.

If he can reproduce the numbers from last year, that will be money well spent.

Welcome to Arsenal Eze!!

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this is the guy we need, he’s unpredictable and will make stuff happen for us

really excited to be getting Eze and also during his peak years :slight_smile: massive L for Spurs as well, we are and always will be bigger and better then them

Well played by Arsenal. Agreed on the terms and kept it quiet.

This is pretty much what I think happened. We always wanted Eze, and would have likely got him towards the end of the window.

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Don’t see Kiwior going to Palace unless it’s a loan deal. But maybe some of the others can.

@RockyMaivia

Literally exactly as I said.

And also…

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Errr…nothing in that link disproves anything I’ve said at all. If anything the line:

The Havertz development just accelerated everything. Arsenal wanted to make sure they didn’t miss out.

Is an argument in my favour.

Yeah, we’ll just close an eye on the part about us reaching an agreement in principle with Palace 10 days ago :wink:

considering he was ready last week, will he play on saturday for us ?

Pires, I need to go sleep. I’ll happily debate this with you and your AI posts later.

But you got to read it completely. ā€˜principles of an agreement’ can mean anything. Whatever it was it wasn’t solid. Evidenced by the fact the club thought they could ā€˜miss out’. How could the club miss out if it was ironclad?

He’s playing tonight for palace so I doubt we’ll see him involved Saturday

Injury incoming then

finally a guy to for the left side of the pitch! :giroud2: if he just puts in average CP performances for us this might be the most important signing this window.

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If there is an agreement in place between the clubs and the player it feels stupid to risk him.

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My god this is so good

ā€œWe are Lily Philips, We have just been run through by Arsenal football club, we have just been bulliedā€

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Happened about a million times before. Clubs having a deal in principle juat to break down at the end… Nothing unusual.

Us having such an agreement, anything close to it, days before this injury, compared to what we all believed - us not having real, strong interest in Eze is quite a huge difference.

Kai’s injury maybe accelerating things a bit, right at the end while we basically had an agreement is very different from us making a move BECAUSE of the injury.

What made me think in this direction is simply how we operate as a club since forever.

We simply aren’t prone to quick, sudder, rash decisions/reactions when it comes to transfers. As it’s reported now, he’ll cost close to his RC, with the add on’s and bonuses… That makes him basically Arteta’s second most expensive signing.

No way we’re doing that, while he’s also a completely diffetent positon and role to Havertz, because Kai’s injury all of the sudden.

What accelerated the move more than Kai’s injury was surely Tottenham’s interest and their movement.

I think Kai’s injury is the smalles possible factor in the whole move, it just appeared bigger because of the time coincidence.

No way we would react that quickly even if we wanted to make a loan move for some random player, let alone such a big move. This was cooking all the time and it went under the radar of the journalists.

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pretty sure there is no need to play him now when agreed in principle with Arsenal.

Improves the squad and the creativity level so on that front it’s good.

Let’s hope it doesn’t mean we have to sell/cutback in the next few windows to accommodate.