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Summer 24

Claudius

lorddulaarsenal all of them except Saka, Martinelli and Odegaard are 6’2” or bigger. They are big, strong, fast lads. Opponents will expire at 60 minutes.

samthegooner

Love this signing and hope we play him mostly in the LCM position and move Rice back to the 6. He can help defensively with his duel winning and stature while also hopefully helping our LHS dynamics to get back to a balanced attack. Also love the potential of him making back post runs for half space crosses, since we seemed to be focusing more on that in the Wolves game and I'd love to see more half space crosses in general.

Also seems like there are rumors out there that we are still in for Nico Williams, despite how much of a long shot it still seems. If we could somehow change his mind over these next 8 days, that would be such a perfect end to the window. I am not holding out any hope though.

Claudius

samthegooner if Nico happened, I would lose it.
We have an incredible first team. I just like the ability to keep throwing weapons at opponents at 60 minutes in each game, and the ability to lightly rotate game to game. Will give us that resilience City have. That's how you get 90 points and call it a day. Fuck you, Pep you bald cheat.

samthegooner

I think we hold out to see if we can somehow pull a rabbit out of a hat with Nico over the next 8 days. Maybe we try for a loan for someone like Sane or Raphinha to add some additional firepower but I doubt we do anything substantial if Nico says no. Could see us going for the Real Betis winger prospect Diao (I think that's his name) but he likely wouldn't play much. I still like the team even without Nico as title co-favorites with City but the margin for error will be razor thin.

Then we go big next summer with Sesko and a world class winger (Kvara would be my choice but Nico, Rodrygo, Leao, Musiala would all be good fits as well and might be on the move).

Sicario2 - Tier 1

One WC winger away from having our best ever squad. Let’s get it done.

GooneriC

I wouldn't say best ever squad , still need a 25-30 goal striker

Claudius

GooneriC Saka will be that guy within 2 years. Just not quite yet.

Clrnc

GooneriC if you have a top winger you don't need that prolific striker. We are one top attacker away from winning the league imo

flobaba

Claudius you just know he's about to make that leap where he goes from world class to unstoppable force of nature in the next year or two. He has seen and sussed out most defensive set ups and knows how to be efficient and make the most impactful decisions in the final third.

Ladies and gents we have a beastly player in the making.

samthegooner

I'd rather have a squad scoring 100+ goals over a league season than a 25-30 goal striker personally but that's just preference. I like having more balanced distribution of goals. Speaking of, it's crazy to think that in the Invincibles season, Henry scored 30 league goals for a team that scored 73 goals total (41%!). It's also crazy to me that last year's squad scored 18 more goals than that juggernaut of a team (91). I want to see us going for over 100 goals in the next two league seasons and I think it's doable.

Claudius

samthegooner football changed. Because of pressing, roles have changed and goal distribution has changed.

HomeSteak

We are so back guys

RocktheCasbah

HomeSteak that tweet... Having lived in Bilbao for a year I can tell you if the phrase "Mes que un club" should apply to anyone in Spain, it's not Barca, it's Athletic. I'd love to see us sign Nico for many reasons, a selfish one being we share a surname 😁, but there is something about the bond between a Basque and that club which makes it very difficult to break.

As I'm sure Arteta, despite repping another part of the Basque Country, is well aware.

Clrnc

We are targeting a backup winger. Definitely not Nico Williams.

Let's get a young and highly potential player to take the minutes off Saka when required.

Claudius

let's get Sane on loan. no obligations.

samthegooner

Either an established dynamic winger like Sane or Raphinha on loan or a younger prospect we can give some minutes to and develop over the year like Assane Diao. I know others have said no to Bakayoko but I think he's quite talented and has more end product than Doku, who he gets compared to most. However, it sounds like he wouldn't be cheap either so my preference would still be a loan for an older first team winger or bringing in a young prospect.

lorddulaarsenal

If it’s a prospect as back up Asprilla fits the bill

samthegooner

lorddulaarsenal Asprilla is on his way to Girona according to the tap in merchant this morning. Diao is a better prospect IMO anyways and 2 years younger.

lorddulaarsenal

Oh hadn’t seen that. Yep both talents

lorddulaarsenal

—————--————Raya
BW/JT/TT —Saliba/BW—-GM/RC/TT—-RC/OZ/TT
—————-———-DR/TP/J
————MO/FV/EN——-MM/DR/KH
BS/GM/GJ——Osimhen/KH/GJ——GM/LT/GJ

Fantastic squad. Osimhen or Nico Williams to take us to the next level

Mirth

lorddulaarsenal when you see it laid out like that you can clearly see we’re short one body in the front 3

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Mirth

That’s because he hasn’t included Reiss Nelson or Fabio Vieria. Numbers wise we are ok but quality wise a different story…

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