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lorddulaarsenal

A couple of nice links popping up today

Nico Williams - club to drop the bag

Joao Pedro - has magic moments in him

Don Pacifico

I've see nothing but beige from Joao Pedro. We should be aiming higher and that doesn't mean Nico Williams for me, either.

lorddulaarsenal

It depends where you see Havertz fitting in to things

Nico Williams thought would be a tremendous signing. We need teams trying to double up on our left as well as our right

MistaT

I'd rather Cunha than Pedro, but certainly selling Cunha would have Wolves dropping.

Qwiss

MistaT It seems Partey is off the boil again and we may need Rice to play at the 6.

He was off the boil at RB. We need to only play him as a 6.

He'll need to be replaced in the summer though and we are starting to look like the mess of last summer is going to make this summer an almost impossible feat as well. We'll need a striker, a left winger and a deep lying mid at a minimum. I can't see us getting all of that done.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Qwiss hopefully our new DoF hates barbecues and can get work done.

Clrnc

Qwiss last summer was pretty much a wasted window. I love Calafiori but he really shouldn't have been a priority.

I think we can survive another season without a new DM and with Jorginho still playing.

Priority must be a LW, and then a striker

Qwiss

Clrnc Partey is gone in the summer isn't he? We need a signing there and Jorginho kept as back up.

Claudius

Clrnc Calafiori was a priority. Just go to last season and see the constant complaints about Zinchenko. If folks had to watch Zinchenko most weeks cos there is no Calafiori, this place would collapse from calls for Arteta’s head on a spike.

Clrnc

Claudius Mate, when Calafiori was linked (he was a CB btw), everyone thought we are being trolled.

Qwiss He probably will be offered a 1 year contract

QuincyAbeyie

Claudius but you would be happy with Zinchenko most weeks and therefor not making Calafiori a priority, wouldn't you? I don't think you were among those constant complaints.

Claudius

QuincyAbeyie I am fine with Zinchenko. He doesn’t agitate me at all. But as I have said often, you want better players where possible, and I think both Timber and Calafiori make us harder to defend than Zinchenko does

Claudius

Clrnc this is a misunderstanding of how Arteta recruits players. He’s not looking at positions. He’s looking at attributes. He put this guy in at fullback because he’s a progressive beast. He was the most progressive defender in Europe last year. Thats the attribute we wanted to make us more direct. You don’t take that and put it at centre back in our system because the center backs have a clear role at the back to hold the shape and manage distribution.
Whereas in his previous club, Calafiori could constantly leave his centre back role and get cover.

Clrnc

Let me put it this way, Calafiori won't win us any trophies this year. Isak, Marmoush, Kvarat, Gyokeres or any LW/Striker upgrade would.

goon

I mean you guys are assuming that Calafiori prevented a far more expensive forward signing because the defence was prioritised. Considering we tried to sign Sesko right at the start of the summer well before Calafiori that seems unlikely.

Either we didn't fancy the names listed, they didn't fancy us, they were too expensive or we're keeping our powder dry for someone we have our eye on feel like more likely explanations.

Claudius

goon most people have said buying one person typically doesn’t prevent others coming in. That the drivers of these deals coming through is usually issues of player availability, player desire to join Arsenal, and intensity of competition for his signature. Those 3 factors drive the speed at which deals are done - versus some general interest in getting the deal done by the team.

Qwiss

goon I don't assume that but I think it's clear where our priorities lie.

Clrnc

And if that's the truth, we have made a massive mistake trying to waste one more year away.

goon

Clrnc

Maybe. I do think we desperately needed a top winger. But I'm not convinced anything other than a world class forward signing would have been enough to counteract the reds and injuries to the backline + Ode, but who knows.

Coombs

I mean, we paid an absolute fortune for Calafiori and Merino, and I don't mean together, I mean individually. I would argue that both cost "over the odds" in weird football parlance. For whatever reason, paying over the odds for an attacker is abhorrent, but doing so for journeyman midfield backups is acceptable. Its just bad squad building, end of story.

Claudius

Coombs Calafiori and Merino are not journeymen. LOL

goon

Coombs

That 'fortune' buys you an Eddie Nketiah up front.

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