#Deadline day Jan 2023 Edition: Page 8 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

#Deadline day Jan 2023 Edition

goon

Clrnc I think a transfer request has contractual ramifications, i.e. players ends up making a financial sacrifice.

Anyway, Caicedo can't really accuse us of leaving him hanging, we made a near club record bid for him and still received zero encouragement. It's not like Brighton set a price we didn't meet.

Pepe LeFrits

Clrnc Reports that Caicedo have travelled alone to London to force a move.

From the same fella who claimed a deal was agreed this morning I think.

QuincyAbeyie

Claudius

Claudius QuincyAbeyie Vieria is a fucking kid

Nah.

Claudius

QuincyAbeyie Nah.

Hahahaa. He’s 22 with 2000 career league minutes, 250 of which are in Premier League. This season alone Saka has played over 1500 Premier League minutes.

Expecting Vieira to be magically productive and consistent from this starting point is unrealistic.

Don Pacifico

Yeah, what goon said.

As an aside, whilst I understand the frustration with not sorting out our midfield, I think James' reference to 'building Rome in a day' are valid. No one thought we'd be in the position we are right now - having a serious title challenge is well ahead of schedule and we had not accounted for that in our squad building. The current squad would have been fine for top four but given how well we've done we're now assuming higher (great!) but clearly haven't laid the necessary groundwork to efficiently close the signing of a top-class (young) midfielder in time.

QuincyAbeyie

Don Pacifico people have thought we should really, really sign someone instead of Elneny long before we became title challengers. We had the same situation just this summer with three bids for Douglas Luiz on deadline day.

Qwiss

QuincyAbeyie The squad are all delighted, Edu told me so.

Don Pacifico

QuincyAbeyie I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm just saying that we can't land all our targets at once.

Qwiss

goon there isn't really any doomsday sentiment though is there? There are a lot of people disappointed with a transfer. The whole "you are insulting the man who made Arsenal a club again" rhetoric in response is whats OTT.

James

Qwiss there isn't really any doomsday sentiment though is there? There are a lot of people disappointed with a transfer. The whole "you are insulting the man who made Arsenal a club again" rhetoric in response is whats OTT.

Edu out is trending. People want the fans to boo the player. I’ve even seen our old friend @asajoseph attempting to get #artetaout going. That’s not OTT?

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

I'm hoping Vieira will come good once he's had a preseason with us.

The end product is there. He's just so fucking weak and doesn't know how to get involved at the moment.

Qwiss

James Thats not happening here.

Gazza M

James I’ve even seen our old friend @asajoseph attempting to get #artetaout going. That’s not OTT?

it is. but still 😂

Ricky1985

I'm in agreement with James et al.

Jorginho is not my favourite player by any means, but if there's any system in this league he's going to thrive in currently, it's Arsenal's.

Everything is so well structured that his strengths will be very useful to us, whilst his weaknesses won't be too exposed - Jorginho won't be involved the press, just as Partey isn't. Similar to how a Barca midfield with the three least athletic players of all time couldn't be got at back in the day. We're not as good as them, obviously, but on the ball, Jorginho is made for that lone 6 role in our team. He's so much better than Elneny, and we're certainly stronger for this.

Pepe LeFrits

Qwiss @Coombs did say a few posts up that he hopes he's booed to be fair.

James

Qwiss You sure?

Coombs I hope this cheating piece of Chelsea scum is booed at the Emirates.

Qwiss

Pepe LeFrits yeah but Coombs is crazy.

And TBF thats about his personal history rather than football.

goon

James this too:

GooneriC Fans should let them know what we think the next game.

Both of these posts received multiple likes too. You'd think we're the ones in 10th place, not Chelsea.

Coombs

Qwiss precisely. I'm not mad about this because of Jorginho's footballing ability, that'd be idiotic.

Ignore the football. Nothing about this is good.

We get bullied by Chelsea all window and end up PAYING THEM MONEY for a player they want to get rid of, with Edu clearly doing a favor we'll never get back in return.
He's a nasty piece of work that is hard to support for his cheating and on-pitch antics, regardless of who he plays for. He's slow as molasses and barely has anything left at the highest level.
Someone with all of the above is going to be the guy we have to tolerate when rapey Tom can't play. I wanted to see us move away from Partey by signing someone who could legitimately surpass him, not cement him as our only option for the rest of the season.

I couldn't care less about his fucking ball progression. Fuck this little rat right out of my club.

Pepe LeFrits

😂

QuincyAbeyie

Claudius hahahaha.

I haven't expected that at all, you just made it up for some reason. I just said that when we spend big money on 22 years olds, they should preferably be ones you're not afraid to sub on.

Claudius

QuincyAbeyie
I’m saying that he is an inexperienced player. 22 is an inexperienced age for pretty much every position on the field. There is tons of data to support this. @Pepe LeFrits posted a graphic that shows peak ages by position. Expecting a 22 year old with 1500 minutes of Portuguese football to come and be a big contributor on a title chasing team is unrealistic.

So why did we get him? So we aren’t sitting here next year complaining that Vieira is being sold for £80m by some clever Portuguese club and we should’ve acted faster.

HomeSteak

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