Sounds like Balogun wants to go:
Loan Watch 21/22
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Scored again from the spot last night.
Yeah he is very impatient, he did the same with England. Did not get a call-up, and even if it is not 100% now, it looks like he will play for the USA national team. Bad call, as a few more months of this form and he would have been in the England team. He is 21, he has plenty of time....
Questionable character.
I think it's fair enough. He's had a taste of 1st team football and wants to be somewhere where he is settled and 1st choice. He won't even get meaningful minutes here. I think he's more of a counter attack striker, making runs and getting the ball in the last action which doesn't suit us and we have Jesus, Trossard, Eddie for the 9. Sell him in the summer with a sell on clause.
Lokonga needs to be sold too. Palace have started winning without him and Hodgson is bringing on Hughes and McArthur from the bench rather than Sambi. Hopefully we will get our money back. Tavares can go too.
Only natural he will want game time now.. Would prefer to keep him instead of Eddie but doubt he would want to be possibly 3rd choice next season...
Should be able to get a decent amount for him in the market, would try an put a buy back clause in any sale as well.
Lol, Lokonga is a fraud.
HomeSteak He was angry when he wasn't given a chance previously by Arteta too. Kept posting on social media little jigs about him. If he wants to go, get a buy back clause. If not convince him 2nd choice at this stage is good for him, bin Nketiah.
Don't really agree US is a bad choice. Very young team full of talents, can win the Concacaf and Gold Cup every few years whilst If he chose England he gets a very questionable manager and will win nothing. 50-50 choice
US is ideal for him for national team. There is poverty across the forward line - he will slot in immediately, almost automatically get picked as the 9. Why choose England to compete with Kane for the next 3 years?
HomeSteak I don't think its a bad call from him in respect to where his motivations seem to lie. He wants to be a big deal and a big player, he'll walk into the US squad before the World Cup over there and be their main striker. That'll be huge for him and propel him to stardom. Its probably why he's demanding football now too, he wants to get out there and show what he has. He seems very calculated about it all and fair enough if thats what he wants let him go, we can cash in and he can have his career away from us. We've enough Hale End grads who are good enough and actually want to be here.
Good that quite a few teams want him. We should ask for a big fee.
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He really left Arsenal man to be a CM somewhere, only to end up back-up right back at almost relegated Sotton...and with no contract offer in almost may. I don't know if it was him or his agent who made that call, but boy did he fuck up
HomeSteak I don't know if it was him or his agent who made that call, but boy did he fuck up
There are enough fucks to go around with how the whole situation unfolded. Could have gotten 20m for him.
Ridiculous situation on both his and the club's parts.
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I think it was £15m that Wolves offered. I think the clubs been a little unlucky, but ultimately I don't think a player who's never established himself as a serious contender to be a first XI player should be here at the age of 26. A lesson we should learn with Eddie. If we can't get 25m for him so be it, but even 15-20m is better than nothing.
goon https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/24/arsenal-ainsley-maitland-niles-wolves-20m
Was 20m as reported by Romano and many others but tbf at that time the majority here said it was too little and no way should he go for that kind of money.
Same thing we thought 20m was a good deal for Willock but Newcastle fans think its the bargain of the century now. Hard to predict how it will go
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£20m was what we wanted apparently, what they actually offered and rejected at the time was £15m.
But I think we may have moved the goalposts later on after he got an England cap so maybe that's why a second bid never materialised, so you could be right.
I was one of the few on here (I think along with Kel?) that wanted to sell him for £20m, but thought £15m was too low.
I mean we played our own part on this one - my recollection was that Mikel rejected this on the basis that we wanted AMN to stay but then never used him.
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goon was one of the few on here (I think along with Kel?) that wanted to sell him for £20m, but thought £15m was too low.
but everyone who didn't want to accept the bid didn't because they wanted to use him. The actual outcome, rejecting the bid and not using him, was the one option nobody would've chosen.
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This is right Quincy.
I think Edu will have to be judged on the sum of his transfer actions versus individual deals. Everybody has a few stinkers.
I feel that deals done within this season and next season will be the best indicator of how much value he adds. For the previous seasons we were in basically a “big bath” mode, using a crisis to clear no -performing assets, and refreshing the squad. Now that the big financial crisis is over, we need to show peak performance in trading. Sell some excess (Nketiah or Balo, Tierney, Lokonga etc) and buy some new stars.
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He was dropping dime after dime in their game against WBA. Looks like he's earning the team's trust already to dictate and I'm really excited about following his season.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66627893
Nice article on KT. Hope he can revitalise his career at Sociedad
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Patino with his 3rd assist already
Thats a lovely pass. Kids still only 19, could still make it here.
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Lokonga injured already. We never gonna sell these guys for good money.
Such a shame for him. Hope he recovers soon.
Pathetic
We are still banterous in a couple of crucial ways.
Thats a real shame for Sambi, really feels like the guy needs a break for his career to get going.
If anything, this has been one break too many for him!
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I mean, how the hell does he even manage it? These guys are lacking something. It can't be luck or just shit genetics, they've gotta be doing something...wrong?
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Did we falsify the medical, presumably like Celtic did for us?
invisibleman18 Did we falsify the medical, presumably like Celtic did for us?
It's just a loan so there would no benefit for us.
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invisibleman18 Did you see the clip with Gary Lewin recently doing the rounds about what the aim of medical is?
I'm reading your questions as being tongue in cheek, but Lewin's comments were quite interesting in any case.
Tam yeah I was just teasing. I saw the Lewin interview with the story he told about the unnamed player we signed 18 months post acl, won some trophies then sold him shortly before we thought his body whould break down and he retired 18 months later. The injury history and transfer fees seem to fit Overmars except that he retired closer to 4 years after we sold him.
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Seen that Biereth is doing alright at Motherwell this season. Scored 6 goals in 10 games (a goal every 110 minutes or so) and seems to be dealing with the physicality of the league well judging by his highlights. Always though he looked an interesting prospect from the youth team so wonder if he might become an option for us in a couple of years (probably needs to take another step up from the SPL).
Don Pacifico He is strong as hell but his body cannot take the physicality of football really. In the last 18 months, he had 4 injuries that kept him out for 4 weeks, 6 weeks , 4 weeks again and 10 weeks the last one. The first 3 muscular injuries.