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Gazza M

I'm not too enthused with those options tbh. don't see a strong enough partnership in a back 4 in those

Anzac

TBH without additional investment then IMO those options are about our lot.
Trouble is I don't see any of our top players wanting to stay when we fail to qualify for UEL, let alone UCL.

Anzac

https://www.whoscored.com/News/bQI0N_ICV0KdbnOk7PFdNA/Show/Leicester-to-face-competition-from-Arsenal-for-Porto-midfielder

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/120608/Show/Ot%C3%A1vio

Asterix

Eh stats don't seem too compelling. I guess the most compelling part is he's free. Is he a Kia player?

Anzac

Asterix wrote:
Eh stats don't seem too compelling. I guess the most compelling part is he's free. Is he a Kia player?

Not sure - but apparently Neto is?

Asterix

Yep I read that too.

Otavio is managed by Time Sports - a Brazilian player management company - only have a handful of players. There is bound to be a plethora of third parties who would get involved.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/otavio/profil/spieler/231289

They also manage a striker - not very good it seems - called simply Rick. I love Brazilian names. I want a team including Rick, Fred, Larry, George, Oswald, Mike, Steve, Kevin and Bruce.

mentalvortex

Sun claiming that we are in for Stoke City's teenage Irish center back Nathan Collins.

Burnley apparently the front runners to his signing along with us.

BWooley

Burnley are the front runners for his signing per Twitter. They claim Burnley are willing to pay 10M - the first investment from their new owners while we don't want to step up that much. I'd honestly be ok not paying 10M for a centre half - feel like we have a full complement of good / passable ones at the moment unless the Gabriel we are seeing now is the real one and not the one we saw in the first few games of the season.

Qwiss

My brother goes to some Ireland U21 games, says he's decent, good at passing out from the back, etc but doesn't think he'd get his game here.

Anzac

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2021/01/24/tyrick-mitchell-arsenal-transfer-eyed-from-crystal-palace/

Alternative LB option & another HG player.

goon

We're talking about Palace here so he'd probably cost a lot. Not worth it for a backup.

Find someone old or find a cheap young promising player to genuinely push Tierney.

mentalvortex

Came across this on my twitter feed recommending Lee Buchanan from Derby as a bargain pickup for the LB position.

Anzac

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9185323/Arsenal-set-offered-Julian-Draxler-Matteo-Guendouzi-Paris-Saint-Germain.html

any takers?

Klaus

Lawd no. We can ship Guendouzi to any number of clubs if we want to sell him. Why would we take on an old, busted, useless Draxler who hasn't been good for almost a decade and will be impossible to move again once he has settled here? Didn't we learn anything from Willian?

Clrnc

Agreed.

But shocked that Draxler is just only 27. Realised anyone who moved to the French Ligue make them irrelevant after awhile. Golovin is still very impressive for Monaco but hardly anyone wishlist or remembers him.

Anzac

Klaus wrote:
Lawd no. We can ship Guendouzi to any number of clubs if we want to sell him. Why would we take on an old, busted, useless Draxler who hasn't been good for almost a decade and will be impossible to move again once he has settled here? Didn't we learn anything from Willian?

This part for me.

Qwiss

Anzac wrote:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9185323/Arsenal-set-offered-Julian-Draxler-Matteo-Guendouzi-Paris-Saint-Germain.html

any takers?

Noooope.

Clrnc

Bell says Odegaard is our backup plan for the summer. He is refusing to disclose the player we are going for but he says we will concentrate all our funds on one player this summer to solve the creativity issue.

Everyone guesses Grealish.

QuincyAbeyie

It must be someone of Grealish's quality if Ødegaard is the backup plan.

Klaus

If we're spending that many millions on an attacking mid from Premier League, would you guys go for Grealish or Maddison?

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