So let’s document our opinion regarding Arsenal players - How much do you rate them currently and where far do you believe they would go?
You can categorize your opinion based on below criteria
On a scale of Mark Randall to Dennis Bergkamp, How successful do you believe this player will be with Arsenal?
Mark Randall - No idea why he was even relevant
Frimpong - Loud and whimpers away
Henri Lansbury - Championship grade
Carl Jenkinson - PL grade, somehow stuck around, not played much.
Denilson - PL grade, somehow stuck around, played a lot.
Arshavin - Exciting but short term
David O’Leary - Long-term servant
Cesc Fabregas - Bordering on the legend status
Dennis Bergkamp - Legend
Pat Rice - Face of Arsenal
How long do you think the player would last in the club?
How good a player in his prime, will he eventually be with Arsenal or elsewhere?
Poor
Average
Alexandre Pato
Gareth Barry
League’s best in his position
League’s best
World Class
GOAT
How do you think his overall career will pan out?
Won’t be a professional footballer for long
Inferior non-european leagues
Inferior european leagues
European top leagues - lesser clubs
European top leagues - midtable clubs
Nicolas Anelka
Respected professional plying with only top clubs
World class player plying with multiple top clubs
Club Legend
Transfer Valuation
Free agent
10-20m
20-40m
50-75m
75-100m
Above 100m
Qatar will purchase him
Would be pretty miraculous if that turned out to be the case, two youth centre backs both graduating to first choice and forming a partnership together for a top side.
That’s not a bad selection of players, questions and options but I still can’t categorise them like this without thinking they’re not accurately reflecting what I’d predict.
With Iwobi I’d select “Arshavin - 5 years - Gareth Barry - midtable - 10-20m” but that’s mostly rounding up/down.
Will just go through each player and how I predict it’ll turn out.
Reiss Nelson - two years of on-off excitement and promise, before the uncertainty for him and us culminates in letting him go abroad. A good old tale of what might have been.
Eddie Nketiah - never quite establishes a first team run. Few more League/FA Cup runs before moving to a Championship/newly promoted club.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles - injury problems persist and struggles for opportunities as arrivals come in. Moves to a newly promoted side in a year or two.
Mattéo Guendouzi - continues to progress well in Emery’s developmental system but primarily in bit part roles. Make or break moment comes in a year or two and grabs it with both hands. #success
Konstantinos Mavropanos - hardest one to call. Throw a guess that after this season he’ll have one more year as a 4th choice followed by a 2 year run in and around the first team. Faces stiff competition with recruitments and Rob Holding. Ends up abroad within 3 years.
Rob Holding - accumulates consistent appearances with the first team before recruitment and form begin to change that. Can see it being touch and go with his future in 18 months-2 years from now with other big six clubs interested.
Alex Iwobi - several solid first team runs over the next two seasons, peaking a year from now and maintaining his status as a highly useful squad player for 2-3 seasons. Moves to a midtable side in 4/5 years.
Look forward to how stupid this will look in a few years time.