He doesn't

Werner/Lemar

Clrnc wrote:

Bryant wrote:

I'm not sure Fabinho is gettable with Jorge Mendes being his agent. Fabinho is also a third party ownership player too, most of the transfer fee would go to Mendes. Until I see us sign a player represented by Mendes, I won't have that much confidence in getting Fabinho. 

If he has a legit release clause I don't see a problem.

Release clauses are not allowed in France. The best they can do is gentleman's agreement.

Ray wrote:

Mertens would be a good Sanchez replacement.

Fabulous player, but isn't he 30?

He's a small bloke without any outstanding physical abilities. He's probably gonna be the same player four years from now.

The biggest issue is that Wenger doesn't like players like him. If you can't play with your back towards goal you're done at this club. It's the single saddest evolution of Wengerball.

Also isn't Timo Werner destined for Bayern, like most promising young Germans? Bloody good player though. Hopefully our BFG and Mad Jens attributes will help us get a few more Germans into the club. I'd take Goretzka and Werner any day.

Asterix wrote:

Also isn't Timo Werner destined for Bayern, like most promising young Germans? Bloody good player though. Hopefully our BFG and Mad Jens attributes will help us get a few more Germans into the club. I'd take Goretzka and Werner any day.

So put the money down. We can beat Bayern in a financial shootout for Goretzka and Werner in January. If we did that and started to shake some deadweight, I would be happy 

Klaus wrote:

He's a small bloke without any outstanding physical abilities. He's probably gonna be the same player four years from now.

The biggest issue is that Wenger doesn't like players like him. If you can't play with your back towards goal you're done at this club. It's the single saddest evolution of Wengerball.

Welbeck? Walcott? Lacazette?

Lacazette and Welbeck play pretty well with their back towards goal when they're up front. Walcott doesn't play anymore, much like Lucas couldn't get a game last season.

They can hold the ball up now and then but it’s not like either of them are there to link play. We also went after Vardy whose back to goal game is non-existent.

I don’t think Wenger has any style in mind when he looks at potential recruitments, I think he just looks at whether or not he likes them and then worries about the rest later.

Claudius wrote:

So put the money down. We can beat Bayern in a financial shootout for Goretzka and Werner in January. If we did that and started to shake some deadweight, I would be happy 

Sweet, we didn't do anything idiotic like not sell Ozil and Alexis last summer, and throw away 150m, right? 

kamikaze wrote:

Claudius wrote:

So put the money down. We can beat Bayern in a financial shootout for Goretzka and Werner in January. If we did that and started to shake some deadweight, I would be happy 

Sweet, we didn't do anything idiotic like not sell Ozil and Alexis last summer, and throw away 150m, right? 

The problem is that no-one would have given us 150m for Ozil and Alexis. We would have gotten 100m for the both of them if we were lucky. That barely gets you one Lemar these days.

Or it could've bought Salah and Matic with about £20m to spare.

And then what? Ozil and Sanchez are basically 90% of the creativity in the team. How do those two replace that?

No they're not. This season Ramsey is the most creative player in the team, even Xhaka is ahead of those 2 on assists. Kolasinac is equal to them. They are far more replaceable than you like to admit. Replacing Sanchez goals is the key issue and that could've been done with someone like Salah.

Yeah we saw their creative powers in full flow yesterday. Ramsey can't even trap a football mate.

Replace Alexis with him.

Was about to post that in the wishlist. If only we had some connections with Ajax.

Wow, that's amazing.