Tam wrote:
mdgoonah41 wrote:
the ornstein article mentioned that no other clubs bid because they knew he was going to arsenal. im sure we didn't throw out £45m as our first offer, its not like we just overestimated his value or what it would take to get him by £40m
I disagree. What was the harm with testing the water with a £10,000,001 bid?
To be honest I find this signing baffling. Our defence is far from perfect but statistically it was one of the better in the league. I know we need to sort out our general play, and improving defence will do that to an extent, but I struggle to think that can't be better impacted by strengthening positions further forward first.
I'm not one of these hipsters that think the best way to score more goals is to sign a ball playing centre back, but anyone who helps break up the triangle /pentagon of death involving Xhaka, our two centre backs and occasionally our full backs, is undoubtedly a good thing. There's games where we have 60-70% of the ball with 70% of that spent passing around the back. And by the way, Luiz was a part of that as much as anyone in most games.
But yeah, midfield and CAM is the key to improving our attack, my hope is that the reason we've not seen a great deal of movement there beyond Lokonga is because they are higher profile targets and therefore (please lord be Locatelli) harder to complete.
