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Deadline Day thread (Arsenal + Non Arsenal)

goon

He's just turned 23 too, about to hit his peak years. I reckon he could really take a step forward this season. If not, we can always sell him next year or two once the likes of Nelson and co. have had a chance to develop.

QuincyAbeyie

Neill Lennon wrote:
We were talking about it on the plane over here as it’s all gone a bit quiet, which is surprising for me

This guy seems like such an amateur muppet.

Mirth

Jed wrote:
Everton fans up in arms on Twitter urging their club not to buy him. Other than some gooners, no one seems to rate Iwobi.

Yeah, rival fans are idiots. What else is new?

I don't see the point in selling Iwobi at this stage, that isn't the same as saying he's world class. Iwobi a good squad player on manageable wages, he'll keep his value till next summer if we do want to cash in once (and only once) our younger players potentially surpass him. There's no point getting hyped up on potential at this stage because when Iwobi first broke through we were saying exactly the same thing about him.

Plus £30m is really insignificant in the scheme of things, it won't even free up that much in terms of wages.

Ricky1985

Maybe the journalists are all slighlty behind the pace at which everything moves as per usual, and we moved for Coutinho a few days back because Everton had made a move for Iwobi?

Shady

Iwobi out would only make sense if we were about to upgrade to a Zaha, which seems unlikely at this stage.

Jed

Qwiss! wrote:
Iwobi managed the same number of assists last season as both Silvas at City, and he played less minutes in a worse side.

Ryan Fraser has more assists than all of them. I wouldn't take him over the Silvas.

Shady

Jed wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
Iwobi managed the same number of assists last season as both Silvas at City, and he played less minutes in a worse side.

Ryan Fraser has more assists than all of them. I wouldn't take him over the Silvas.

Look at the goals City score. The guy who makes the killer pass rarely gets the assist because they always cut it back to someone else for a tap-in.

Rohit

Coutinho is a better player than Iwobi currently but he isn't an Arsenal boy. He will come on loan for a year and we won't see him again in an Arsenal shirt I reckon. I really hope we don't sell Iwobi.

Jed

£30m for Iwobi is cool. You put that towards the Upamecano fund and improve your area of weakness, knowing that you have a plethora of options in the position Iwobi occupies.

BWoolley

If we can get 40M for Iwobi and Coutinho on loan for under 10M, I'd do that in a heartbeat. Will add 30M to the Upamecano fund and give Nelson / Saka / ESR a year to grow into the role.

Clrnc

40m + 10m add ons and I will bite for Iwobi. Use that money to get Upamecano this window and Coutinho on loan with an option to buy.

Next summer sell Ozil to MLS and Mkhi to wherever, get Everton in if he's still doing well. Perfect

Ricky1985

[Twitter]

Rubbish source with this prat from the Sun (pushed the chopped up quotes of Josh Kroenke to stir shit up), but I hope he has some accurate information here.

goon

Plethora of options? We have 3 guys who’ve played about 5 mins of senior football between them and Mkhi who is reaching Mustafi levels of diabolical.

Jed

Ozil, Ceballos, Nelson, Mkhitaryan, Saka, Pepé, Martinelli, Lacazette and Aubameyang (if stretched).

Jed

What are our options at CB? Sokratis and an injured Holding. Upamecano is a far greater need than keeping Iwobi.

Qwiss

Jed wrote:
knowing that you have a plethora of options in the position Iwobi occupies.

We don't.

Shady

Jed wrote:
Ozil, Ceballos, Nelson, Mkhitaryan, Saka, Pepé, Martinelli, Lacazette and Aubameyang (if stretched).

Ozil, Ceballos, Mkhi, Pepe and Laca don't play on the left.

Nelson, Saka and Martinelli would most likely give us less this season than Iwobi.

Aubameyang could play there, but he'll also be needed centrally in some games.

Clrnc

Looks like this could be done. No wonder Coutinho is coming

Mirth

Jed wrote:
Ozil, Ceballos, Nelson, Mkhitaryan, Saka, Pepé, Martinelli, Lacazette and Aubameyang (if stretched).

Yeah, no. Martinelli and Saka are still very unproven, Nelson did less hoffenheim than Iwobi did at Arsenal - where's the logic?

Jed

What is Iwobi's position anyway? It can't be left winger, he himself has said as much.

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