Re: The Official Summer Transfer Rumours Thread

[El Gunner]

Partey rumours have only gotten stronger and stronger. At this point I'd be really disappointed if we don't sign him. The way he dominated Liverpool's midfield just recently. We need such dominance and strength in our midfield.

Read we're also linked with Espanyol midfielder Marc Roca. Know nothing about him. But he's probably the back up if our board chickens out of paying up for Partey.

This season means nothing much more really. At best we'll remain around 9th place so we don't play EL next season. Have to look forward to next season.

Leno
Bellerin/Niles - Luiz/Mari - Saliba - Tierney
Partey - Xhaka
Ozil???
Martinelli - Auba - Saka

Unfortunately we'll probably still have to do with Xhaka because my faith is low on Torreira and Guendouzi.
It'll be a real heartbreak if we enter the next season with Ozil as our main AM option YET AGAIN because it already means we'll accomplish nothing major

[Hapless_Hans]

Wonder whether you can afford either Partey or Roca

Roca would probably be >30m (think he has a 40m release clause, was reported last summer when we were supposed to be after him)
Partey surely much more

[Robespierre]

Bouhafsi is reliable

Manchester United have opened negotiations with Corentin Tolisso and his agent.

The Bayern midfielder has a €35m release clause in his contract and Inter Milan are also interested.

(Source: @mohamedbouhafsi) pic.twitter.com/XRKslHJH01

— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) June 10, 2020

[Hapless_Hans]

Would be very surprised if he had a release clause in his contract tbh

Actually 100% certainly not.

But we'll sell him for 35m no doubt.

[urbaNRoots]

Arsenal news so dire, we have to hear about other teams strengthening their teams

[Robespierre]

Ah of course I have the wrong again section
It's 10th time that happens I think

it will never change the title between General Section transfer rumours and that on Arsenal section : ?

[El Gunner]

Arsenal have decided to complete a £14m deal to sign Pablo Mari permanently https://t.co/anAPkgDUgs

— Metro Sport (@Metro_Sport) June 19, 2020

[Sina]

Hope these are actually option to make permanent as it is said and not obligatory but it feels the latter to me

Arsenal had already made the decision to sign Pablo Mari permanently in January. Arsenal took Pablo on loan to circumvent financial fairplay. Arsenal paid a significant sum to loan him, so of course they have no choice but to sign him permanently. [@simpraisa, Marco Braz]

— Z (@ZRAFC) June 19, 2020

Well

[RealGunner]

Meh. Looked really poor before his injury tbh. 2 meters more and he would have conceded a pen.

Hopefully we can sell to a spanish club.

[Eman]

I actually feel like Mari has been doing a decent job personally. He got injured probably because he wasn't fit enough to come straight back into an EPL game, but he looks far more solid than most of our CB options. We really need to overhaul our CBs this summer though...Holding, Mavropanos, Sokratis, Luiz and Mustafi could all go and you'd hear no complaint from me.

Speaking of which, we also need to sell Mkhitaryan, Elneny, Ozil, and probably Torreira. I can't see us paying up big to keep Ceballos. Cedric's loan will expire and we have no reason to offer him a contract. Lacazette could go too if we need the funds, though PEA might leave first, and then we're royally fucked. Niles and Willock could both use a loan to play regularly at CM but I don't see how we can afford to let them get the experience they need when we don't have enough senior players in that position.

We honestly just need a new owner who is going to be aggressive and give us huge funds this one time because we're on the verge of collapsing and being an irrelevant mid-table club for years to come. Our talent simply isn't there anymore and it is frankly impossible to compete with the financing of the other teams and not keep getting worse by comparison. Kroenke has shown glimpses of giving more of a shit in recent times and I get that we have no CL football to help with revenues but we never will have that income again if he doesn't fork some money up front, even if it's via a loan. You need to spend money to make money.

We'll get some funds if we manage to sell everyone, but then we will need so many changes it makes my head spin:
- GK (if Leno is out LT)
- RB (unless we choose Cedric)
- CB x2 (1 at minimum)
- CM/CAM x3 (2 at minimum)
- LW/RW - maybe Kluivert if we can get him for Mkhi?

We need around 150M to have the window we really need to be relevant and I feel we're going to be told to try to break even under the guise of 'COVID-19' when Kroenke's net worth only increases

[Sina]

Sell both Auba and Laca and go all out for Osimhen

Zaha and Doucouré would be good from Within PL
I still believe in Golovin and Zagadou
We should take a chance on them

----------------------Leno
Bellerin---Saliba---Zagadou---Tierney
----------------------Xhaka
---------Doucouré---------Golovin
Pépé------------Osimhen--------------Zaha

[El Gunner]

we have Martinelli and Saka, we don't need someone like Zaha

[Jay29]

Also wondering where we're gonna get the cash to by Doucoure and Zaha in the first place. That's like £100m right there.

The harsh reality is that the club has little money for signings without sales (or an owner injection, but that ain't happening). This is why Mari and Cedric have been signed-up to four year deals and Luiz is being extended.

Torreira and Aubameyang are the most likely to be sold. One hasn't settled and the other can do a lot better than his current team.

If/when Auba leaves, Lacazette will be kept at all costs. Club can't afford to lose both strikers without being in a position to sign a quality replacement.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if Mkhitaryan returned to the first team to pad out the offensive options.

Ozil will stay until the end of his deal because nobody is taking his wages.

Saka will either leave with a year left on his contract or go into the season without extending.

The club will struggle to find buyers for Mustafi, Kolasinac and Elneny.

In short, I'm anticipating a very difficult transfer window with a lot of wheeling and dealing going on.

[mani88]

Is it fair to say the Cedric has beaten Kim Kallstorm??? All this transfer window and for a few seasons to come we will make a list of targets and then buy the cheapest among all. Unfortunately I have not seen a player getting better at arsenal. We buy world cup winners (Ozil, mustafi) and convert them into some one who arent worth a dime to any other team. We buy/promote exciting prospects (chamberlain, iwobi etc) and they either remain exciting prospects for few years or fizzle out into dead wood. And some time club takes the piss on us and straight away sign a la yaya sanogo, andre silva and benayoun etc. I think this pandemic is just the right time to forget big name transfers and we get coaches who can the the best out of players that we have at our disposal. Converting Nketiah, Saka, Martinelli, Holding etc into world class players would help us alot . As of now 4 van dijk 4 de bruyne and 2 messi as arsenal will also lose 2-1 to southampton

[boyzis]

4.2.3.1

Saka Holding Mustafi Bellerin

Cebelos Xhaka

Nelson Ozil Pepe

Auba

Arsenal win every match

[El Gunner]

lol boyzis pls

[Sina]

Nelson+Holding+ cash for Zaha
Of course they wont take it  

[Sina]

Bellerin out
Adama In as a right back with LB playing more defensive role

Thoughts?

[El Gunner]

Sina, your tactics these days are bordering on Unai Emery level

[Sina]

Why?
If Saka can play full back in back four(which he has done)
Then so can Adama

[Hapless_Hans]

But why would he want that?

[Sina]

If any big club plans to use him as a winger then fair enough
If not then RB/RWB his best chance to step up

[Hapless_Hans]

But are you even that much bigger than Wolves at this point?

[Sina]

Yes we are and anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves!

[Jay29]

Don't think the Saka comparisons are quite right because Saka played LB as a youth player several times. He was familiar with the position when he started playing there for the first team.

Traore is a winger, through and through. Playing RWB a few times is absolutely not the same thing as playing as a RB in a back four.

Also, I suspect his current success comes down to Wolves knowing exactly how to use him and how to isolate him against defenders. I'm not convinced this can translate over to Arsenal.

[Eman]

I personally wouldn't try to sign any player from a PL team with our budget. Zaha or Traore would cost us our entire transfer budget, if not more than that...and frankly, I think and have always felt like Zaha is a shit player who can barely control a ball but bundles in goals once in a while due to his athleticism.

We'll need to work with signing players from top teams who are towards the end of their contracts and want to leave, or finding youngsters nobody has really heard of. Nothing else is really going to work. We're an opportunistic club in the transfer window at this point - we can't get who we want, we can only get who's available and hope that opportunities present themselves

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