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Claudius I think there's probably a difference between what is difficult/challenging work, and what is generally understood to be hard work.
It's funny because I'm actually hiring right now. The hard part is the fact that our shit pay scale results in a candidate pool that reflects it almost perfectly. I can point to a dozen people I'd love to give the job to, but they'd never take it. I have no power or authority to change that, though. I wouldn't call it hard work. I'd say it's difficult for me to do much of anything at all. Hilariously, we're in desperate need of this hire, but the likely outcome is a failed search and we keep picking up our own slack until circumstances change.
My suspicion is that its not much different at Arsenal. You make your pitch, to your execs and to the desired player(s), and that's pretty much that. Move on to other projects.
Yes please to Lee Kang-In and Nico Williams.
Bring them both in and ease the pressure on the summer.
Panda We need more ruthless ball strikers across the team and Lee Kang-In really showed me something in our game against them. I haven't watched enough of him to know his total game but he can definitely put his foot through the ball.
Also being linked to Damsgaard
Appalling hair but decent playmaker - could play a Rosicky or Benayoun type role for us
samthegooner talking of ball strikers, do you recon Arteta would love a prime Podolski in our team?
lorddulaarsenal I don't know if Arteta would but I sure would! To me, our lack of great ball striking across the squad is the biggest difference between us and teams like City in past years (Rodri, KDB, Mahrez, Gundogan) and current Liverpool (Salah, Gakpo, Mac Allister, TAA, Szoboszlai). That ability allows them to pull something out of nothing time and time again and I'd love to have a few players outside of Saka who are willing and able to take a crack at net from distance or odd angles.
Is Williams going to fix our scoring situation. I'm not convinced
He’ll score enough here but he’ll make us a threat on both sides of the attack.
Good thing Mudryk got suspended or you just know we would have been all over that.
They need that 100% profit
How is Leao?
United’s situation is what you get when you spend like a drunk sailor even when you’re the richest. It’s such a farce. We should take Mainoo off them.
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It always works like this, after we lose a few games, or fail in our target of winning, the league, top 4 etc what ever it is. On point, the articles about us going huge in the summer come out lol. Then comes the summer, we fail to get in our main targets and life goes on.
Personally I think we need to be moving Odegaard deeper to dictate buildup and bring in a more output oriented CM that will score goals. I don't think Odegaard is the next KDB but rather the next Bernardo Silva and we need someone like Wirtz to come in and complete the midfield. Wirtz or Musiala would be the dream of course but even someone like Eze or Gibbs-White would be a good fit for me. I just don't think Odegaard scores enough and is enough of a threat in and around the box and adding a more output focused and athletic midfielder would really help us in settled game states and in transition.
Question, if we don’t sign anyone this Jan have we effectively sacrificed our season?
Would love Araujo - class player