Takehiro Tomiyasu (18)

He could definitely do with some games to build up his fitness

Out for another month apparently

https://x.com/afcstuff/status/1845863898664104232?s=46

Another player that we neither get the best football out of nor a big fee. At his best consistently he’s a starter the last 2 years and worth 40-50m now.

Gonna end up leaving for 10m in the summer isn’t he.

:arteta:

I have stopped considering him while talking about our squad depth.

I don’t think we will see him feature a lot this season.

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For the people who said Calafiori wasn’t a necessary signing we are 7 games into this league campaign and Tomiyasu is yet to feature and seems to be unlikely to feature whilst Zinchenko has already suffered early season setbacks.

On top of being a considerable upgrade on both we’d be absolutely facing issues now without him.

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Yeah I’d withdraw my comments on Calafiori.

This guy unreliable.

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Its truly incredible we had Tierney and Tomiyasu as our first choice full backs in 2021/22 :rofl::rofl:

We seemed to get away with it aswell until the March if I remember and we had to play Cedric for the run in and collapsed

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I feel bad for the guy but we just need to get rid.

This is why we kept Kiwior.

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Same for those who wanted to let Kiwior go.

We needed 8 defenders because 2 are crocks and 1 was just coming back from an ACL. Timber has already featured more than I expected at this point but also had a small niggle already and likely to get more.

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Time to bin him.

Feel bad for the dude. Very good defender when fit.

I reckon we will be more than willing to listen to offers in the summer, giving Arteta the opportunity to sign another defender lol

Tomi san is most likely not going to be at Arsenal beyond this season.

Tbf these Twitter reports have been rubbish both of the times so far

Did he extend last season?

Doesn’t matter what twitter reports say. Tomi has been injured almost all season last year as well and same looks like this year again.

Don’t see the point of having him here when he isn’t available most of the time

Time to go. Love the guy, but we have to ship him out.

It’s probably fair to let him go and Arsenal have managed it well by ensuring we are stocked at the back. He’s almost always done a solid job whenever called upon and think he would move forward quite content with his Arsenal stint aside from the obvious injury setbacks. Bit of a shame actually that injuries have hampered him so much because he certainly has quality in multiple defensive positions.

he is not the high earners on the team… I don’t think it is necessary to make a conclusion to sell him in the summer.

we want a forward/striker, we want a midfield to replace Partey/Jorgi.

Is it only TEAMtalk that’s reporting this? I don’t get why they would lie about this but I haven’t seen anyone else reiterate the info.