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Saka Contract Saga

lorddulaarsenal

To be fair we have recently acquired two top youngsters in Martinelli and Saliba, and we have a fantastic crop of youngsters coming through so overall our policy is working.

Just want Saka to stay

Claudius

I think we should be fine. He’s going to go to Pool now to slow down behind Mané and Robertson?

jones

spaceman spiff wrote:
He's been here his whole life and has a coach who will give him first team games. His agent is just trying to get him PAID and I'm sure he will be

Claudius wrote:
Another angle is we are a club in the football media capital of the world with a highly active online fan base. Perfect ingredients for endless rumours. Let’s see where this falls

This and this. The fanbase is highly sensitive to this stuff if not sore at the moment but there's really very little to be worried about right now. Saka's agent would be a complete moron to tell his client to sign anything at a point in time where his performances have been steadily improving and the kid is making a name for himself. Very little the club can do about it. The calls that he should have been extended before the season started are ridiculous, nobody thought he'd start the season like this. Every single club has these same issues.

jones

goon wrote:
Despite all his talk and snobbery towards how Gazidis dealt with contracts Raul and co don’t seem to be fairing any better. Two important assets heading into their final year. The reality is players have all the power. Not some, or most, all of it. They don’t have to leave with two years left, they don’t have to sign either, they can do whatever they want including when to hold talks.

Except when they're doing bad. Then you have the likes of Mustafi being thrown on the market against his will by Emery, Markovic and God knows how many others being publicly thrown under the bus by Liverpool or Schweinsteiger getting his locker trashed by Mourinho and being sent to train with children, the notion that it's somehow lopsided in favour of players is ridiculous. Especially since on their part it's actual people having to relocate their entire lives and families when they're struggling, facing abuse in the ground and online while for clubs the big issue is that star player X doesn't want to hang around with guys who are slowing him down, and half the time having already dumped another club to come to us in the first place.

QuincyAbeyie

Although I agree with your overall point, I think you're also proving Goon's. Mustafi is still here. Özil is still here.

Clrnc

I think the bottomline is there's very little a good director can improve on if we don't improve on the pitch. Puts us in severe disadvantage.

jones

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Although I agree with your overall point, I think you're also proving Goon's. Mustafi is still here. Özil is still here.

Yes but only because the club signed them and gave them contract extensions which to be added at the time looked like great decisions. Every party will always do what's best for themselves and there's usually little wrong with that. I don't begrudge Mustafi wanting to stay because he's in a much worse position now than he was when he came in and therefore will most likely go to clubs and wages worse than here, and I can't say I blame Özil for not throwing away millions and leave the club and city he's been at for the last seven years. I do blame Özil for blatantly not giving a fuck on the pitch though.

lorddulaarsenal

Looks to have grown even more during lockdown - proper athlete now

HomeSteak

Just sign him up already

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Top, top talent. We cannot fuck this up.

goon

on Bukayo Saka's contract situation...
We are trying, as a club, to finalise the deals that are more urgent and are a priority for us. The ones you are talking about [Bukayo and Auba] - they are both really important, not just for now but for the future of the club as well and if the club has something to announce, they will do it in the right moment.

Maybe reading too much into this but I actually think this sounds quite positive.

GooneriC

Saka ain't signing anything unless we pay him massive wages.

invisibleman18

Why would he, or anyone stay if they have the opportunity to join a proper club?

banduan

I reckon he'll stay. He'll get plenty of opportunities to play for us and can still get to another club in the future regardless.

Coombs

If he's playing further forward because of this contractual issue I'd be furious. This kid should be playing at left back or nowhere in the PL. He was a weapon for us and the position allows him to play to his strengths, he doesn't need reinvention.

Claudius

The 8 position could be dangerous as well. He’s still able to get forward and create chances and goals. He has the skill and power to play in there, and might be the Ramsey replacement we’ve been crying out for. If Tierney and Aubameyang / Martinelli can be effective out wide, and he combines with them, we could have a very deadly left side of the field. I wish we could try all 4 together. It feels like that might be a source of strength. The types of combos Pépé can only dream of

Coombs

There's just no basis for it other than theory, and it's not even necessary at this point. Why are we breaking the only part of the team that was kind of working? How does he solve any of our midfield's problems in defense or possession? It's just weird and I really don't get it.

banduan

Coombs wrote:
If he's playing further forward because of this contractual issue I'd be furious. This kid should be playing at left back or nowhere in the PL. He was a weapon for us and the position allows him to play to his strengths, he doesn't need reinvention.

this is kinda funny cos earlier on in the season him playing at LB was seen as another one of our stopgap measures - he'd been playing LW all this while.

Saka in the whole has everything to do with us missing a guy in the hole.

Coombs

He was discussed as a left back since he played there in youth teams. He broke through as a winger but his skillset is everything you want in a modern fullback. He was crushing it, we have wingers, and Tierney is further behind in terms of fitness and integration in the squad. Less said about Kolasinac the better.

Playing him anywhere else at this stage is stupid, and the last two games bear that out, especially if it's not even at LW! Maybe he'd become a good midfielder in 2 or 3 years, but he's so young it seems ridiculous to crowbar him in to the worst Arsenal midfield for decades.

goon

I don't really know what the best position to play him is, I thought he'd be a great left back but maybe he can be even better further forward. What I don't think is good for him is playing in a multitude of positions, 4 by my count. At 18 any game time is good time, but he needs a set position by the start of next season, assuming he's still here.

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