Morning all.
Arsenal have announced which players are leaving the club this summer.
Men’s and Women’s first team squads:
Lisa Evans
Tobin Heath
Alex Lacazette
Eddie Nketiah (contract offered, ongoing discussions)
Viktoria Schnaderbeck
Lydia Williams (ongoing discussions)
Men’s Under-18s and Under-23s squads
Jonathan Dinzeyi
Joel Lopez
Jordan McEneff
Any further developments regarding players extending their contracts; joining/re-joining us; or leaving us will be officially communicated as soon as they are confirmed. (Arsenal.com)
So Eddie Nketiah hasn’t signed a new contract yet.
Does anyone really take any notice of who leaves the club anymore, especially when it come to the younger players who’ve yet to feature for the first team in any competition? I think it’s human nature to be more interested in who joins the club each transfer window, especially when Arsenal are in great need of depth as well as strength.
Does it matter if Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pepe, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Cedric Soares, Nuno Tavares, Lucas Torreira, Daniel Ballard, Hector Bellerin or anyone else out on loan are sold this summer?
On HH and around other Arsenal forums, the same names pop up when it comes to players who need replacing, I know I have my own list as I’m sure you do. I think mine is very similar to last summer albeit with one or two additions and one or two added. Lol
I think we’d all agree that we as a club need to be better in all three departs. More potent up front and better at defending. Arsenal conceded too many goals last season and didn’t score enough from the opportunities created. It’s all very well scoring a glut of goals in the League Cup against a Championship club but we have to be doing that against better clubs in the Premier League if we want a better finish to next season than we’ve just had. In my opinion the squad needs players to really challenge the best we have in the squad rather than be there just in case.
William Saliba won’t be joining the club this summer to sit on the bench so Ben White will have a challenge on his hands to keep his place. At least he should and that’s what we need throughout the team. A player to challenge Thomas Partey, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli. Kieran Tierney, Takehiro Tomiyasu and definitely Aaron Ramsdale because right now, everything seems to be a little to easy for those who played the majority of the league fixtures. (When everyone was fit I mean)
How many times did Mikel Arteta mutter the words “we lacked the quality” after a game we’d lost last season? Quite a few I’d say so what’s the point in signing any player who is not better than the majority of players already at the club? Gabriel Jesus is a quality player, of that there is no doubt so if the club go and spend £50million signing him, who am I to complain? Same if Yves Bissouma arrives at the club for a similar fee, I’m not Arsenal’s banker so why should I care? If the Kroenke family want Arsenal FC to be a successful club then Mikel Arteta should be telling him to spend some serious money again. Isn’t that what we once said about Arsene Wenger? I know I did.
If the club spend another £150 million this summer, it has to be on quality because if the club focus on quantity, I can’t see next season being much better than the last.
Catch up in the comments.
Yes DG I agree, in fact I was never that enthused by the links to Scamacca mostly because he’s Italian and they prefer to stay close to Mama in Italia and I don’t blame them.
But he is the type we need, it’s just getting the right player at an affordable price given all the business Edu has to do this summer – I do hope he’s got some help in his dept.
Is he though Kev? Does Arteta want the tall man up front or are we going to be like City who seem to prefer the small and skilful guys?
Well Rico a year ago Man City tried to sign Harry Kane and this year they’ve got Haaland, that’s quite a statement in terms of how Guardiola sees football evolving, but it’s not just getting a big unit like Lukaku up front it’s getting a big unit with pace.
Hence we also see Liverpool going for Darwin Nunez, a big, skilful and rapid centre forward.
Now if Guardiola and Klopp see a centre forward as the way to go then Arsenal should maybe try as well and in truth we have, Martinez and Vlahovic both being that type of striker.
Ah yes Kev, very good point.
No Jesus then?
Yeah, I’d sign Jesus, he can play up front or at inside forward the same as Sylvaner Wiltord and Eddie for that matter.
Remember next season we’ve got 5 subs and Arteta was pretty good during lockdown and the 5 subs, it’s not about the XI Rico it’s about the 18 (25+) and we’re gonna need all of them and some reinforcements and upgrades with 4 major tournaments to compete in.
I know Kev, it’s Mikel Arteta who needs to realise there’s more than just 11/13 players in a squad. Lol
That’s why I suggested we need better than what we have rather than just numbers to bulk up the squad.
Never mind the price, feel the quality. 😉
I filled up with diesel this morning, £2.07 a litre. 😟
I worked evenings in a filling station in the early sixties. Petrol then was £1 for 4 GALLONS! And we cleaned the car windscreen which might have got us sixpence for a tip.
Nottingham Forest want AMN apparently.
Kev, I’m proud to have recommended Scamacca in March, 2021(!), when TA was feeling nostalgic for a Giroud-type giant, but I’m not entirely convinced if he is indeed a technical type of guy. If we are really in the market for a tall yet technically adept striker we should go back for Alexander Isak. He is a talented dribbler (1.5 successful dribbles per 90 minutes compared to Scamacca’s 0.5), and his 5 assists – and 2.3 key passes per game – are also more convincing than Gianluca’s 0 assist and 0.7 key pass. Abraham is also tall – not as tall as these guys though – and his dribble and key pass stats are superior to Scamacca’s, but inferior to Isak’s, however his goal tally is mighty impressive.
However I’m not sure we are looking for that type necessary. The example of Toney and Son showed that you don’t need to be a giant to thrive, and Lukaku’s season wasn’t a success story either. Jesus could be a good candidate: he is technical, good at passing and dribbling, motivated to claim his stake at the World Cup, has a good relationship with Arteta, and seems more affordable than the rest of the bunch.
Could be a good move for him. How much are they offering?
Not a lot I suspect Cicero, despite their new wealth. AMN only has a year left on his contract I think.
Niles of the Forest has a nice ring about it…
Alexander Isak, weren’t we looking at him a year ago and last January?
Yeah, I guess he’s an option Peter but I think a very large transfer fee was the stumbling block, I can’t say that I was overly impressed by him in the Euros if I’m honest as I thought he was a bit slow, more Giroud than Adebayor so to speak, but needs must I suppose…
Among those leaving…..”One player who confirmed his exit shortly after the final Premier League game of last season was Luigi Gaspar, who just happens to be the son of Arsenal technical director Edu. The young midfielder has already taken to social media to pen an emotional farewell after three years at the club.
“Thank you @arsenal, it’s never easy to say goodbye, a club I’ve watched and admired since the first day of my life, my life started here, I was born a North London Boy… I wanted to thank everyone who was with me in these last 3 seasons I spent here, there were beautiful moments but also not-so-easy moments, sometimes things in football don’t work out the way we imagined, but that’s where you get thick skin to prepare you for any situation,” he wrote on Instagram.
“I cried, laughed, made friends and built a family here… Eternally grateful for this club that opened the doors for me here in Europe. I arrived here as a boy, leaving Brazil afraid to face new challenges, and I leave today as a man ready for whatever is to come! My decision to leave was not an easy choice, but as I said in football, sometimes things don’t go the way we want, I feel that now is a time to face new challenges, to go to a new home.
“I leave here this letter in thanks to all the players, coaches and staff of the club! Thank you for everything you’ve done for me these years! Thanks again @arsenal.”
‘morning all.
It seems we have signed a 19 year old Brazilian winger called Marquinhos for £3 million on a five year contract. He’s described as 5ft 9 and very fast, according to The Guardian, he will go out on loan for his first season. Hope he doesn’t become another Saliba.
A good chance to assess our reported target tonight, Scamacca is expected to start for Italy in the Nations Cup game against England. Channel 4. 7.45 k o.
Your memory didn’t fail you, Kevin.
We indeed inquired about Isak in the winter, only after the Vlahovic saga turned sour.
Sociedad did respond with a 70M+ figure, but I don’t know (neither do I care) if it was because we were known to have this funding when going after Vlahovic, or because it would have pushed the Spanish team into a desperate situation a few days before the end of the transfer window without their main striker. Nevertheless that money was not justified for Isak, and probably still isn’t.
But I think he will be able to impress you in the future, Kevin; as he is only 22 now, so was just over 20 in the Euros…
Fair enough Peter but that link seems to have died so maybe we’re looking elsewhere and looking for better value?
Personally I don’t see the point in signing a young Brazilian and then sending him out on loan, that policy has been a total failure in the past, I’d rather we kept him around and integrated him into England and English football surrounded by the other Brazilians at the club.
That means having to suffer watching England play Cicero…
I still don’t believe Vlahovic was anything other than a rumour in January.
Agree Kev, if he’s good enough to sign, play him in the cups.
Kevin, Rico, apologies for going back again to the boring squad size topic, but the “if he’s good enough […], play him in the cups” argument only valid if we don’t have a huge team.
Many fans expect youngsters to play in the cups. But if we sign 2 high profile strikers, then even Eddie would sit on the bench in the cup games. Assuming the good old 4-2-3-1 formation Xhaka and Neves/Tielemans/SMS/Sangare would play in the PL, Partey and Lokonga in the cup/EL games, so in order to have a few minutes Patino or Azeez need to bypass Elneny, who has just recently extended his contract, after 7 consecutive starts in the PL.
Even if Pepe leaves and Nelson stays that would mean hard competition in the B-team (ESR, Marquinhos, Nelson behind Balogun/Nketiah) without further additional attacker signings, so whoever expect to see Flores or Hutchinson playing 3-digits are in for a major disappointment.
Depends on how Arteta approaches the season Pbarany. Will he prioritise the League over the cups?
Scamacca off after 75 minutes, not bad but not outstanding.
Well that was mind numbingly boring . Sammacca had moments of link up but was never given a cross to latch on to .
Italy’s play didn’t suit him . I watched in a bar in Cyprus and the place was packed but the crowd lost interest after about half an hour and England did nothing to win them back .
Ramsdale was good though wasn’t he? I spared myself the pain.
Morning all
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