Finacially it’s a great deal for us, but I don’t think it was too hard to pull this off. We just had to be be patient enough.
Chelsea literally had zero choice. They knew they had to offload him, they just waited for a better offer, which was very unlikely to arriwe.
Now what matters the most is that Arteta gets the best out of him. I’d love it if he could seriously push for the starting place, and not just be a squad player, a Nelson with more appearances.
Quite interested to see what he can offer to the team, and also such a strange feeling at the same time after watching him in this league for more than a decade.
Very excited about this deal. He’ll have something to prove with us. Previous working relationship with Arteta.
He’s miles better than Nelson.
And his G/As in most EPL seasons eclipse Martinelli’s and Jesus’s. He can play LW or RW, so that’s some cover for Saka + can share minutes with Trossard and Martinelli.
Would be great to win the EPL with him this season and then go in hard for some proper attackers next season.
I still think his end product is shite btw. Always has been since his Liverpool days, it wasn’t highlighted at City becat they used to create so much he’d eventually score or assist, especially once Pep got there. It was definitely highlighted more at Chelsea.
His biggest strength is his ball carrying and movement, even after regressing a bit physically.
Martinelli really has two great examples in Trossard and Sterling to follow now. Try and learn off some of the best aspects of those two and he’ll get to the next level. Don’t, and you’re getting the Tierney/Ramsdale/Xhaka/ESR treatment next summer.
That’s not because his end product is good, that’s because of how good he was at getting into the right positions so even if he missed a couple big chances every game, he’d eventually score or assist.
Martinelli doesn’t even get into the right positions anymore.
