Summer 23 winda: Page 32 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Summer 23 winda

naz

How much for him?

Gazza M

PSG are pushing for vlahovic. think he'll go there, if lukaku ends up at juve

I do wonder if supporters of any club actually want lukaku to join at this point. him and pogba seem like prime candidates to be fishing for a Saudi golden parachute

Clrnc

Xavi Simmons back to PSG. shame would really have liked him here.

MistaT

Clrnc some talk PSG is still selling or paining him

Burnwinter

samthegooner Yeah this is the take.

I don't see players objecting to being benched on the same terms this season. All else equal, the bench will include players like Trossard, Nketiah, Smith Rowe, Tierney, Timber, Turner, Vieira weekly.

That's a lot of high-priced talent and if a player acts like he's too good to be there, it's not going to go down so well.

Clrnc

Not sure how true but 70m is actually reasonable

Qwiss

Clrnc Not sure how true but 70m is actually reasonable

Reports at the start of the summer were they wanted 100m. We offered 70m in January and if that was the price I think we'd have been back at the start of the summer. Maybe there is less interest than Brighton expected but I think they'll wait and see who else comes in for him. Outside of Arsenal not a whole lot of deals being done in the PL yet.

lorddulaarsenal

Clrnc why are Chelsea being price sensitive all of a sudden?

JazzG

Imagine if Arsenal made that bid, media and Twitter would be having a field day.

goon

This Ben Jacobs guy is a fraud so I wouldn't pay much attention to anything he's saying. Plus it's not clear if he's suggesting Brighton want £70m+ or if Chelsea are looking to offer £70m +.

I'd be surprised if he went for anything less than £80m.

samthegooner

lorddulaarsenal Valverde has been on my wishlist for the last two years. He'd be absolutely incredible in this side and I think his versatility would suit Arteta perfectly. Most of all, he brings incredible ball striking ability and athleticism to the team that would open things up tremendously in my opinion. I really hope we are able to get one of the Madrid midfielders if they need to shift one for Mbappe. All three bring different things to the table but are world class and we've got the versatility in the squad to accomodate any of Tchoumani, Camavinga or Valverde.

Clrnc

samthegooner Out of those 3, they will be least likely to sell Valverde.

RowJimmy

Clrnc
Agree. I think the reason that there have been rumors about Tchouaméni is that he is the one they are most likely to sell at the moment. (I'm not sure whether that means that Madrid have been making inquiries, that his agent is looking for a way out, or just that rumor-mongers think that way.)

samthegooner

Clrnc Makes sense. I wouldn't ever want to sell him if he was on my team. Camavinga similarly is just as versatile. As @RowJimmy mentioned above, it makes sense why Tchouameni is the name we are seeing the most. I would love him here as well- moreso than Caicedo and I like Caicedo a lot. A Tchouameni/Rice midfield would be absolutely monstrous.

QuincyAbeyie

Least likely Camavinga in my opinion. He's the only nailed on starter since he can play both in midfield and has taken the LB spot off of Mendy.

If we can't get any of the three then just spend the Partey+Balogun money on Caicedo and be done with it.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

lorddulaarsenal

Boehly is not an idiot, a business man at first - last season he was out of his depth but think he is learning from his mistakes

RowJimmy

Sicario2 - Tier 1
Don't see significant evidence of that yet.

lorddulaarsenal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12311813/Arsenal-eye-40m-rated-Ajax-midfielder-Mohammed-Kudus-22-offload-team-players-200m-spending-spree-summer.html

Ooooh yeah

DiabyKungFu

lorddulaarsenal https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12311813/Arsenal-eye-40m-rated-Ajax-midfielder-Mohammed-Kudus-22-offload-team-players-200m-spending-spree-summer.html

Ooooh yeah

I think he makes a lot more sense as a right winger (which every journalist has lately been tipped off that we're going after) than as an attacking midfielder which was the context in which his name was first brought up this summer. I don't totally understand what we're doing with our attack though. Making the safe assumption that we're selling Balogun, we'd still have 11 legit first-team players for our front 5 and only 4 of them (Jesus, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli) do I have total 100% confidence in. We're looking at having a shitload of guys "on the bubble", so to speak. We really need to pick out some winners and losers here.

Pepe LeFrits

DiabyKungFu I think he makes a lot more sense as a right winger (which every journalist has lately been tipped off that we're going after) than as an attacking midfielder which was the context in which his name was first brought up this summer. I don't totally understand what we're doing with our attack though. Making the safe assumption that we're selling Balogun, we'd still have 11 legit first-team players for our front 5 and only 4 of them (Jesus, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli) do I have total 100% confidence in. We're looking at having a shitload of guys "on the bubble", so to speak. We really need to pick out some winners and losers here.

Would have to offload both Balogun and presumably Nketiah, with Trossard operating as the Jesus alternative. I'd be happy enough with that.

lorddulaarsenal

I’m surprised we haven’t been linked to any physical forwards

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