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lorddulaarsenal

Thanks Clrnc - love the insight. What’s the word on Madueke.

Qwiss

Clrnc that's great that you got to spend time with the players. Great insights yet again, thanks for posting.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Thanks Clrnc 🔥

JazzG

Wow, thanks @Clrnc really good info there.

Clrnc We were contacted by a striker's agent expressing his strong interest to join us. Name was not told to me (now I know it's Isak). We delayed the Gyokeres deal, media was fed about add-ons disagreement, but if you are wondering why we agreed everything and suddenly became Sporting wants more guaranteed add-ons, it's actually our side deliberating whether to pivot. Was also told we considered the spillover impact (how long it will take to get the other deal over the line vs Arteta wants a striker ASAP in pre-season to be ready for the season), and our future signings in this window.

I wonder if the club also didn't want to get into a bidding war over Isak with Liverpool and then be potentially left with nobody because if Gyokeres knows we have the deal near enough done and switched I doubt he'd want to wait. Then Newcastle will probably want to drag this out and not make it easy either. For me Isak over him is a no brainer but it is also a much harder deal to get over the line and higher chance we miss out on him as well as Gyokeres.

Clrnc Spoke to Nwaneri, he has signed the thing and is looking forward to playing centrally.

There's your confirmation @Sicario2

Clrnc Saw ******* browsing his laptop the day after Gyokeres was announced. He first looked at the media articles (bbc, mirror etc), then he went on reddit to browse for fans reactions. Then we surfed twitter to see fans reactions. Then he opened 2 players pages. First one was Alejandro Ganarcho. He took pictures of some stats and sent on his phone. Then he spent some time on Rafael Leao's page. Same thing.

Leao 😯

Clrnc Spent time with Dowman (this was before I spoke to the coach that gave the youth insights). He didn't come across as positive to me at that time.

What do you mean by that?

invisibleman18

Amazing stuff @Clrnc
Thanks for posting, really appreciate the insight. Must be an awesome job! Better work stories than me for sure!

Also curious on what you mean by Dowman not being positive, and what kind of naughty thing MLS did.

Asterix

Thanks @Clrnc - great stories to tell there. And lovely work on the teasing - you've got us all hooked! 😆

TambourineMan

Really cool stuff. Thanks for sharing. @Clrnc

Hear anything on extensions for Saliba and Saka? And is your impression that the potential signing ('that we're happy with the progress and the media does not know about') Eze or someone else? Feels like it's not Eze as the media are all over that one.

And fucking Isak man, about 2 months too late. Hope he enjoys living in bumfuck Liverpool.

Burnwinter

Very cool @Clrnc … this is my first real "in the know" material of the summer. I don't count people who are clearly getting briefed!

Very interesting re: Isak and it sounds like there would've been a bit of frustration about it behind the scenes.

Tam I don’t buy the Isak stuff.

The latest narrative tends to slide past the "spillover impact" mentioned a bit.

It sounds like that impact was decisive: we did want Isak, he did want us, and we would have paid, but by the time Isak's agent said he was on the move, it was too late, Gyökeres and Varandas practically had their pens in hand.

Gazza M

nice share Clrnc.

I remember the last time you were on ITK duty when wenger was still coach. when would that have been - was it 2015-ish?

invisibleman18

Gazza M That was following back to the hotel and eavesdropping wasn't it? Remember the post going kind of viral 😆

TambourineMan

Might be remembering this wrong but didn't @Clrnc also break the Tomiyasu news before anyone reported it? Am pretty this forum knew about it hours before anyone else cottoned on.

Gazza M

invisibleman18 I do recall some grainy photos from behind some kind foliage 😆

Clrnc

Gazza M My camera is a lot better these days

This was point 6 spying on him

FEBravo

That's amazing Clarence. Any insights on Madueke? Is he really that highly regarded internally?

Clrnc

Sicario2 I have no idea. But he was literally smiling and winking from the moment he said we are all very happy with the progress so far on the discussions.

Re Negative: Dowman said he doesn't know if he would stay, his parents have to look at the pathway planned for him.

JazzG

Clrnc Re Negative: Dowman said he doesn't know if he would stay, his parents have to look at the pathway planned for him.

That's not good! He's probably getting approached by every top club in Europe right now. It will be incredibly hard to keep him because they'll be offering him the world. Good thing is dad is a gooner!

Don Pacifico

Clrnc Re Negative: Dowman said he doesn't know if he would stay, his parents have to look at the pathway planned for him.

Sounds like he needs to be emancipated. Get Berta onto it!

USArsenal

Clrnc Re Negative: Dowman said he doesn't know if he would stay, his parents have to look at the pathway planned for him.

Seems odd considering he is training and playing with the first team. He will get some minutes this season. He needs to remember he is only 15 fucking years old. All he needs to do is look at Saka, MLS and Ethan, they were good enough and they're in the first team now, permanently. He could see a similar trajectory as long as he keep working at it. We show that we're not afraid to use young players if they're ready. Tell him to look at others who left before they should have... Most of them are not doing anything.

RocktheCasbah

JazzG he's fifteen, he was probably thinking about his next wank... 😃

Clrnc

USArsenal You will be surprised what young players think of now. And the perspective gap between the coaches and the young players.

They just want to play. They are impatient. They are totally not thinking like "oh I have broken the record of most minutes of a 17 year old etc."

Max is an incredibly confident lad. The way he speaks, the way he thinks shows a lot of maturity and confidence. Our coaches are very very confident we have prepared a good pathway for him and his family will decide that he stays.

Clrnc

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Clrnc They just want to play. They are impatient. They are totally not thinking like "oh I have broken the record of most minutes of a 17 year old etc."

Max is an incredibly confident lad. The way he speaks, the way he thinks shows a lot of maturity and confidence.

Going by the pre-season games*, he already looks to be one of our best attackers. Much better than most, at least.

(*I know.)

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