Re: The Official Summer Transfer Rumours Thread

[Jay29]

Next week’s final could be Koscielny’s last #Arsenal game, report L’Equipe. One year left on contract, he wants to play 2-3 more and no talks yet for extension. Leverkusen, Milan, Monaco, Rennes keen. Gunners want Barcelona’s Umtiti as replacement and could get him for €60m

— Matt Spiro (@mattspiro) May 24, 2019

I don't want to imagine a summer where we lose Ramsey AND Koscielny. They're two of our most loyal and best players in the last decade. And Koscielny on his last legs is still twice the defender Mustafi is.

From what I've read, Umtiti's knees are huge concern.

In other news, we're sending scouts to watch Joachim Andersen and Denis Praet during Sampdoria's last game this weekend, apparently:

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/sport/calcio/2019/05/24/samp-lunedi-incontro-giampaolo-ferrero_b3bc7297-ae10-4a5d-826d-fb99ba0c2bfc.html

[Sina]

Rob Holding>>>>Joachim Andersen
would take Preat as a squad option

[Sina]

Breaking | @MohamedTERParis, who 1st broke Matteo Guendouzi to Arsenal last summer, tells Get French Football News that the Gunners have had a bid rejected for Alexis Claude-Maurice already, but they will go in with a 2nd offer. More follows tomorrow.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) May 24, 2019

[Jay29]

Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Torreira, Maurice, Martinelli, Nketiah, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Saka... seems like Project Youth 2.0 is going to be a thing. I'm okay with this.

[El Gunner]

Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Torreira, Maurice, Martinelli, Nketiah, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Saka... seems like Project Youth 2.0 is going to be a thing. I'm okay with this.

I don't have faith in this type of approach anymore.

[Sina]

Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Torreira, Maurice, Martinelli, Nketiah, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Saka... seems like Project Youth 2.0 is going to be a thing. I'm okay with this.

Hopefully Saliba or some other young Center Back with big potential too

[RealGunner]

I am fully up for it too. been a while we had young talented attackers.

[urbaNRoots]

All these talented young players, only for Emery to shove Mkhitaryan and Perisic up our arses.

[RealGunner]

He is shoving neither up our arses

[Sina]

[Jay29]

Arsenal looking at Dayot Upamecano, whose contract expires in 2021:

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/3863831/source-arsenal-want-leipzigs-upamecano

Sounds good. Looking forward to Mustafi's contract extension.

[Sina]

Sportsmail understands Arsenal have enquired about Leicester’s James Maddison but have been quoted £60m. Hopes of making a move for Zaha and Upamecano have ended after failing to make Champions league

— Osman (@OsmanZtheGooner) May 30, 2019

Arsenal will have to look for cheaper alternatives this summer. Bournemouth’s Ryan Fraser is a target and could be obtainable for £30million. They also have an interest in Getafe defender Djene Dakonam.

— Osman (@OsmanZtheGooner) May 30, 2019

[Eman]

Okay so we’ve got more money coming in from Adidas than last year, are offloading a ton of wages in released players, and somehow we have less money for transfers than last year? How does that make sense?

I hope these 45mil rumours have been leaked by the club themselves to keep clubs from increasing prices on us, because actually having less funds doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. If we hold off on investing right now we risk our current top players passing their prime as well...the need to be fiscally responsible is not lost on me but we need to spend some damn money.

[Sina]

SampNews24: #AFC first formal offer for Joachim Andersen and Dennis Praet which is worth €42m has been deemed ‘insufficient’ by club’s officials. Arsenal will need to reach the €50m figure at the very least to get deal done.https://t.co/mzvjThksgX

— Arsènic (@MrArsenicTM) June 3, 2019

would take Praet as mentioned before
but would only take Andersen if Mr Giampaolo himself was coming to coach him!

[urbaNRoots]

Jobber signings either way. Torreira was way more hyped and even he’s been a bit of a disappointment.

[Sina]

Chinese clubs move for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after Arsenal’s failure to reach Champions Leaguehttps://t.co/PpuxR2lCdY

— Gary Jacob (@garyjacob) June 4, 2019

Aubameyang is attracting interest from two Chinese clubs that are ready to hand him a salary in the region of £300kpw. Both clubs believe the striker could be tempted to leave Arsenal [via @TimesSport]

— Arsènic (@MrArsenicTM) June 4, 2019

[Robespierre]

SampNews24: #AFC first formal offer for Joachim Andersen and Dennis Praet which is worth €42m has been deemed ‘insufficient’ by club’s officials. Arsenal will need to reach the €50m figure at the very least to get deal done.https://t.co/mzvjThksgX

— Arsènic (@MrArsenicTM) June 3, 2019

would take Praet as mentioned before
but would only take Andersen if Mr Giampaolo himself was coming to coach him!

Giampaolo will be next Milan coach and probably he is going to sign both too

[Sina]

Yeah i have heard

also XHAKA linked with Inter lol,probably BS

[Eman]

I get the need to be thrifty but does signing 3 players from Sampdoria over 2 summers really sound like a move that a top club would make to compete for titles anyway?

Also on XHAKA: it feels to me like the club are seeing him as a future captain. He gets a lot of interviews on Arsenal.com, already captains Switzerland...then Cech and Ramsey are gone now, Ozil doesn't appear captain material, and Koscielny surely doesn't have much longer left. He's the final of our 5 'captains' that Emery named. I don't see us offloading him any time soon, even if a lot of AFTV fans hate him

[AnJl]

Losing XHAKA is not an option. We lost Ramsey and Ozil is throwing his career away, he is the closest thing we have to midfield creativity.

We cant lose more midfielders, not with the budget we have.

[Twoism]

With the budget of 40 mil, I don't expect to see any transfer in before couple of player sales 1st.

[mani88]

Losing XHAKA is not an option. We lost Ramsey and Ozil is throwing his career away, he is the closest thing we have to midfield creativity.

We cant lose more midfielders, not with the budget we have.

I would sell him in a heart beat and let willock make all those mistakes rather than him. His and Mustafi mistakes have been very very costly. I dont care if we have no midfield left because quiet frankly we didnt have one last season bar a few matches. Sell him let willock make those mistakes and buy a good CB to cover those mistakes

[Sina]

This is What we should do
Get such talents before Monaco/Dortmund/RBL etc
otherwise they cost much more while they are not even  ready made and still developing LIKE Zagadou/Konate etc

Other than Saliba,Mickaël Cuisance is another French player we should look at
get them before they explode and their value sky rockets
if we can sign these and loan them back,not like they would be cheap but still

[Sina]

Arsenal expected to make improved offer for Alexis Claude-Maurice this week

Arsenal are expected to make an improved bid for 21-year-old Lorient versatile attacker Alexis Claude-Maurice this week, in the region of €13m, after having a €7m opening bid knocked back, according to information gathered by Get French Football News and Mohamed Toubache-TER.

Lorient intend to reject any bid below €15m, hoping to make up to €20m including bonuses for the youngster who is attracting interest AS Monaco, Lille, Mainz and Gladbach.

Rennes have formally enquired, whilst Eintracht Frankfurt have had an opening €7m bid of their own knocked back.

The situation is expected to accelerate in the next 10 days.

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2019/arsenal-expected-to-make-improved-offer-for-alexis-claude-maurice-this-week/

[Sina]

SampNews24: #AFC will submit their second offer worth €50m for Sampdoria’s duo Joachim Andersen and Dennis Praet in the next few hours. This offer will satisfy the demands of the club’s president.https://t.co/CCYOIJNNrr

— Arsènic (@MrArsenicTM) June 6, 2019

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Arsenal interested in Fedor Chalov from CSKA Moscow
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11736058/arsenal-interested-in-fedor-chalov-from-cska-moscow

[Eman]

Losing XHAKA is not an option. We lost Ramsey and Ozil is throwing his career away, he is the closest thing we have to midfield creativity.

We cant lose more midfielders, not with the budget we have.

I would sell him in a heart beat and let willock make all those mistakes rather than him. His and Mustafi mistakes have been very very costly. I dont care if we have no midfield left because quiet frankly we didnt have one last season bar a few matches. Sell him let willock make those mistakes and buy a good CB to cover those mistakes

Am I the only one who thinks XHAKA is actually one of our best players? He's more composed on the ball than any of our midfielders, has great long-range passing, can actually shoot from range, can compete physically. We would really miss these qualities if he were missing, which is why I think Arsene and Emery have started him whenever fit ever since he's been here. Some of his errors have been over-analyzed by commentators but if he had guys around him who did their job, I don't think we'd be talking about XHAKA as a weak link.

In any case, I think we should focus our efforts on offloading the guys who clearly are not providing value for money and filling the obvious holes rather than creating more holes by selling decent players when we have no money for better replacements. Our team has been disjointed for a couple of years now given the need to play 5 at the back to avoid getting our goal lit up, and also our lack of wingers. We keep having to play guys out of position to compensate when we really should be playing some variation of 4-3-3 where everyone is in their ideal position to get the best out of our top players. We need to solve those problems first, even if it takes our entire budget.

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