Riccardo Calafiori: Page 9 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Riccardo Calafiori

Clrnc

Confirmed.

Burnwinter

Clrnc Oh dear 😆 The boy's chosen his Arsenal dream over his girl.

JazzG

Clrnc Naughty boy, once Arteta catches wind he'll make sure he's married within the year. Need his full focus on the Arsenal not chasing after birds.

flobaba

Clrnc London birds better make him feel welcome...

lorddulaarsenal

He’s proper Arsenal

Burnwinter

Claudius I'm quite certain he'll be a left back or LCB for us. Where he's going to improve us straight up is his reading of the play and his execution of intercepts and tackles. Remains to be seen what it means to lose Zinchenko's "backup general" style when going forward, or how Calafiori may link with Rice, Gabriel, Martinelli or Havertz.

Claudius

Burnwinter we may loss progressive passing when Zinchenko is on the bench, but this guy will allow us to mix it up with his carrying. We don’t have enough players who have the power and skill to run 20 yards with the ball and disorganise the opponent. With this guy and timber, we suddenly have that running.

Don Pacifico

Bernard Woolley I feel like that has been the sentiment for 60-70% of our signings and things worked out alright.

Meatwad

she has crazy eyes. look at this psycho marking her territory during an interview. guaranteed she doesn't behave this way if the interviewer was a man.

regardless of what she says in that tweet, she's following him to london even if he doesn't know.

Big Willie

That's a fake tiktok apparently. Haven't checked but this is what they saying

mdgoonah41

this transfer is only like an 6.4/10 on the weirdness scale, still plenty of time for things to ramp up

Burnwinter

Claudius We'll see what happens, but I like Calafiori a lot on paper. This looks like a significant upgrade.

There seem to be some concerns about Calafiori's durability and athleticism, but those are also Zinchenko's weakest suits. Kiwior is an elite physical specimen and an asset to the squad, but he's no "pictures" player. Come on in, Riccardo.

Clrnc

Don't think we lost anything at all without Zinchenko playing last season. If any, it was net gain and improved team performance

Claudius

Clrnc he wasn't a gamechanger in the way that Rice, Saka, etc are, but was still a value-adding member of the squad. It's easy to understand why Arteta has been committed to him given the options we've had. I think Cala is the piece that makes Zinchenko less necessary.

Gazza M

our obligatory defensive signing is now out of the way. time for things to get interesting

Gazza M

flobaba

Gazza M probably helps that they likely could/would not match whatever terms we were offering.

TambourineMan

Good stuff. Remember listening to an Athletic podcast on Motta and Bologna earlier this year and the they spent a fair chunk of it speaking about Calafiori. I remembered the name and then when I saw Italy at the Euros I understood why they were impressed.

He only wanted us if reports are to be believed and the price is fair. Happy with this.

Now for a midfielder and forward. Please and thank you.

Clrnc

Calafiori reminds me of Chivu. In his playing style. Anyone else?

Burnwinter

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