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The Wishlist 2020/21

lorddulaarsenal

Clrnc wrote:

This guy looks very good. Midfield maestro.

Does look good yes. I should imagine he’s on our radar.

Love the the way he strikes the ball. Foot angled in slightly more than your average player producing a flatter flight. Xhaka has that.

lorddulaarsenal

Who would you guys rather we sign - Leao, Nkunku, or Kvaratskhelia?

TambourineMan

Hmmmm, it'll be between Leao and Nkunku for me. And if I had to pick one, I'd go for Leao as I think he has the potential to be the best in the world. Nkunku will always be one tier below the Mbappe's and Haaland's but I can see Leao in that top tier category at some point.

Clrnc

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Who would you guys rather we sign - Leao, Nkunku, or Kvaratskhelia?

Nkunku. He is absolutely deadly and we need more finishers in our team.

Bernard Woolley

Is this the same Nkunku Emery was supposedly looking to sign when he was our head coach? I don't recall him being so hyped at the time. Clearly his time at RBL has done him a world of good!

TambourineMan

Seem to remember Emery being ridiculed for wanting him and most of the fan base being very pleased with the signing falling through.

Clrnc

Yes. He was supposed to be the b2b midfielder Emery wanted to replace Ramsey with.

To be fair to Unai on hindsight most of his signings and decisions proved to be right

Claudius

It wasn't clear to me what Emery was doing. He wanted a lot of good players, but if felt like an extension of the rudderless late Wenger era. At least now with Arteta, when I hear a transfer rumour, I can take it seriously or dismiss it quite quickly because his style is clear.

Nkunku though is excellent. Has consistently been one of my wishlist players for the last few years. He would've worked well here. Chelsea will fuck him.

jones

We've had a bunch of signings fall through too though. Buendia instead of Odegaard, Tapsoba for even more than we paid for White, Lisandro, Raphinha Vlahovic etc

Claudius

The Buendia vs Odegaard debate is one of the funnier things that’s happened. Just no comparison between the two. I’m glad we chose my capi.

deardevil

Can't wait for Bissouma to age and we can laugh at that one too. Another one to to throw in the Lorik Cana bin.

QuincyAbeyie

Didn't we bid for Buendia? We chose not to buy him the same way we chose not to buy Vlahovic.

Don Pacifico

I thought it was similar to Tielemans where we supposed to be interested but never actually bid...?

jones

Nah it was reported we bid for Buendia and that Norwich rejected it, we didn't want to improve the bid and Villa paid what they asked. Not sad about it as I didn't rate him that highly, just saying that the masterplan involved a couple of bullets dodged even disregarding Willian, Luiz' extension etc.

Clrnc

Mustafi extension too.

It's not all bed of roses but it still worked out well.

Maybe if we had successfully bought Buendia he would be shining for us too. Who knows?

Vlahovic would definitely still be a success for us I am pretty sure

Claudius

Buendia is a top 6 ambition player. Not title push quality. Every piece counts now.

lorddulaarsenal

Glad we didn’t get Aouar

Big Willie

100% with you on that dules.

Anzac

Claudius wrote:
Buendia is a top 6 ambition player. Not title push quality. Every piece counts now.

I'll hold my hand up and admit to saying I wanted Buendia - primarily because he adds a goal threat. That said I think Vieira is his replacement in that regard.

Anzac

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Glad we didn’t get Aouar

I still suspect if we had signed him last season (and played him in the Xhaka role in our 433), that we would have made top4 and possibly top3. I know Xhaka is doing well in the role now but we only started playing this shape and roles this calendar year. IMO if we had signed Aouar we could have done so from the off last season.

On a side note I don't get how many pundits thought we'd still struggle to finish in the top4 this season despite our new signings, and particularly after how close we were to doing so last season. Even more so when they say we bottled it, which means we were good enough to do so.

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