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Arsenal OUTS 2023 😞

Don Pacifico

At those wages, don't think anyone is that desperate unfortunately.

KingslandBarge

Qwiss I thought it looked close with Villareal but yeah thats a shout

KingslandBarge

KingslandBarge There were reports earlier in July that a 5 million pound move was in the works. Not sure how genuine, but rumour has popped up again after the PSV match earlier this week.
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/39111413/villarreal-interested-arsenal-defender-cedric-sources
Again, another reason it was important to shopwindow certain peripheral senior players in a low-stakes match broadcasted widely with the Winter transfer window coming up. Lad's on 100k a week. Desperately need someone to take him.

lorddulaarsenal

Sounds like Monaco will give us decent money for Balogun.

Get that deal done then we’ll move for our new attacking toy

flobaba

lorddulaarsenal Kane.

Gazza M

inter closing in on mehdi terami for 23m, Iranian striker at Porto. if that happens they're out of the balogun race

Claudius

Clrnc It has always been attitude over talent for Arteta.

Disagree with this. Which talented player who fits our style of football has Arteta chased away? There’s simply no evidence of this. He has a clear football vision and is removing players who typically aren’t good enough or don’t have the right style

MistaT

So a few weeks left and still we should be moving on from Tavares, Pepe, Cedric, Balogun, and (to a lesser degree) Tierney?

That's a lot to ship out....Edu has really only impressed with selling Xhaka, and if he can't get something for Balogun or Tierney he'll not have done well on exits.

Burnwinter

MistaT We should hit £100m from outgoings, and if we don't it's a pretty poor effort.

Burnwinter

Clrnc It has always been attitude over talent for Arteta.

Attitude is a talent. As for Balogun, he's being sold because he insists on starting and he won't start at Arsenal in 23–24. He's not coming in ahead of Martinelli, Trossard, Jesus, etc. And nor should he. And unlike Nketiah, Balogun won't tolerate that. And nor should he. We might not be comfortable with it yet, but being a top club means selling bright talents, so let Balogun go and all's right with the world.

Qwiss

Burnwinter And nor should he.

Meh. He's half the player Alvarez is and he's playing second fiddle to Haaland. I think if Balogun had a bit more sense he'd have aimed at Eddies spot this season rather than Jesus, if he was good enough then he'd have usurped Jesus. A lot easier to do than get past Haaland for instance. Instead he wants a guarantee that was never going to be given. Kids seems like a total dope TBH. So far his ego exceeds his talent.

Coombs

Burnwinter Attitude is a talent.

My thoughts exactly.

Burnwinter

Qwiss Nope. Balogun would barely play and Nketiah will barely play. We say he's got an attitude problem but he's really just a gifted young footballer who wants to play football. Starting for Inter in thirty matches is a hell of a lot better than playing a bit of Carabao Cup.

mdgoonah41

the balogun transfer might also be the first time i can remember us rejecting a big offer for a player because we know we can get more. typically we seem to sell for whatever peanuts clubs toss to us, so this is hopefully a sign of better selling going forward.

Qwiss

mdgoonah41 I think there is some leeway on transfers given to people who've been good servants to the club too. Like maybe we could have eeked another few million out of Xhaka but the offer was fair and he wanted to go there and he'd stayed when Arteta asked him so we didn't force the issue.

Ricky1985

We rejected £40m because we want £50m. I'd be happy with getting that. Even more so if we can sneak a cheeky little sell-on clause in there, though that might be asking for too much!

Clrnc

Qwiss Really? Think the fee we got for Xhaka was excellent considering we were struggling to ship him out just a year ago to Roma for 12m or something.

Anyway, talks that West Ham wants to push for Balogun if they sell Paqueta. Need to add 10m to the fee if its them

Qwiss

Clrnc Xhaka had a better season though and those figures then were always terrible. Probably why he wasn't sold. Anyway he wasn't put out to the market, there was only one team he wanted to go to and we honoured that and did it quickly and reasonably. We didn't try to start a bidding war or hold on for more. I'm sure Arteta would have rather kept him too.

QuincyAbeyie

Clrnc

Good move for him. Swansea play decent football.

Seems like orny got it wrong with the permanent deal guess

What a waste of his career joining barca

JazzG

Need to try and extend Patino's deal ideally, one year left next summer isn't ideal.

lorddulaarsenal

Not sure he’ll make it with us. Nwanieri has taken his spot

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Patino isn't good enough.

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