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MSGAMBLE9:
Gibbs-White is still available and missing on João Gomes who is a younger alternative to Bruno G is hard to take...

I don't believe Ethan is that bad with the way we are treating him... We saw against Burnley last season and he was lively when he came on....

Ethan has slot into the AM role better than the right wing. With what we saw since MLS came into the midfield, I think he can play when Rice is off and the shift won't be much.
Anybody they wan sign make them sign but I hope it's an upgrade or at least the same level to what we have and not a downgrade with potentials. Saka will be back to claim his spot when the season starts, cus he has sure had a good rest even at the world cup plus he still has to rest till season begins, so he will be fit. How Madueke and Dowman comes in will play a role in his season.

MSGAMBLE9:
Crazy times indeed considering he's very inconsistent performer, he's just another Harvey Barnes and Jacob Ramsey ( both now struggling at Newcastle)....

We need proper wingers not hybrid players cos even Tzolis is an AM masquerading as a winger...

if we can go for vini and pay 100m for him, it would be better than wasting it on english overhyped players.

@ Mostob mosquera isn't just learning, he has proved that he can be a good cb in all his appearance last season. I can't right him off due to that ucl final error out of his natural position. There's a reason why we all was skeptical about him playing RB in the final and it happened. Yes White and Timber injury is there, why not go for a RB instead?. Saliba won't be going for surgery as the initial fears was, he just needs rest to be back. But my own is that 60m for konsa is not ideal.

iamoyindamola:
I don’t think nwaneri will stay at Arsenal
I read his father had a fall out with Arsenal especially arteta, I am sure Newcastle or this useless villa will be eyeing him I hope we make them suffer or sell him to dortmund
The reason we may need ramsay or someone of this profile is because rice,saliba and saka won't be available fir the first half of the season. Zubi have shown he can't hold it on his own

Nwaneri younger brother has already agreed to stay at Arsenal, I don't know what will happen with his elder brother.
Ramsey is an average player to me, not the kind that can be an upgrade to what we have already. Zubimendi for all his errors and all played so well in the first half of last season that no one mentioned the comparison to partey till the second half when I believe fatigue had a hand in it all. He is a good player that can improve especially after his first season experience. We need a either a dm or central that can push the ones we've got. In that AM role, we have Eze, Odegaard and Merino and all three can be trusted to start and be rotated, but in the case of Rice and Zubimendi, it is only MLS that can enter in the conversation, so we need a good quality in that position.

iamoyindamola:
Seeing him struggle in the wing during WC, fvck it he should go
I just love his ball driving strength but MLS isn't bad either or we should get Jacob Ramsey instead

do we even need such profiles again in our team?. I was surprised we went for Rogers, going for Ramsey is just the same kind of deal to me. We have Odegaard and Eze for the no.8 position which is where dem two florish. Plus we still have Nwaneri that we don't know their plans for. We can use that money to go out for Guimaraes especially considering that norgaard is not rated much by Arteta. We can have Merino, Zubimendi, MLS, and Guimaraes in the absence of Rice. Seeing how much that central and dm role played so much we really need a player that can maintain that standard whenever one of Zubimendi or Rice needs rest.

Shegzdave:
Good for him
He’s an average player btw with such high fee, don’t really fancy him
I just feel like we’re sleeping in this transfer window

i share same thoughts about him. To me he's like a low budget Eze with potential. What ever they want us to believe he can do, Eze can do that too. We need to seek real profiles for the positions we are lacking, not packing players up and down.

I feel the same way about konsa that we are also romancing with. We have Mosquera and Ben white to fill in as cb, Timber will also be back and that will have us with a more than needed personels when saliba returns too. So why go for a 60m konsa when we can get a less value option who's young still and won't be just a quick fix. The pressure of winning a big project is off now a bit, so Arteta should trust his champions more and rotate often.

MSGAMBLE9:
Chelsea have reached a verbal agreement with Aston Villa to sign Morgan Rogers, with a £117m bid accepted, although the deal for the attacking midfielder is still being finalised. - The Athletic


https://nyti.ms/4vAngX6

crazy times!!!. Rogers for £117m €137m. I know he's a baller but I always quetions why we wanted him when we can look for other profiles. I actually love that we lost him, let's use that money and get what we need. Make he no turn to another mudryk.

iamoyindamola:
Berta should double bruno guimares money right away

i prefer Guimaraes to Tonali that we were first linked with. In a world where players like Anderton and his likes are valued at 100m+ getting Guimaraes for 65m wouldn't be a bad deal.

Martinelli played more like a false 9 today, dropping deep, distributing the ball and all. This is my first time watching him play in this world cup and his performance was good plus the goal to cap it all.

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iamoyindamola:
Are we not getting Yildiz again
If we can sell both trossard and Martinelli
Yildiz should be the one instead of barcola or Nichole Williams

we are on the same page. I prefer Yildiz to those two

mostob:
First, Airpod is Arteta's second hand man. Heinze is more of a specialist unlike Cuesta who all rounded.

Heinze has been mostly pictured with the defensive groups whether in training or during warmups. His job role is primarily defensive but he can contribute in other area as well.

Do you remember when Arsenal employed Hussein Isa? He is a specialist and a tekker. He was to help our attackers then. I really don't know what happened but that kind of appointment is what I'm talking about.

As for the bolded, I'm glad you agreed. Now, what I'm saying is that Arteta can get a coach who specializes in attacking plays. Someone who can get the best out of our forwards.

to be honest, I don't know what happened with that Hussein Isa guy, I remember him for adverts more than working at Arsenal. I even forgot about Albert sef, yeah he's the man after Arteta. In the end, what i am trying to say is that in as much as our defence was better this season, we can't outright say that Heinze transformed the defence. The difference between this season and previous season was belief and mentality to win. From the attackers to the keeper, everyone knew the importance of tracking back and defending, and next season we have to balance it by having clinical attackers. Will Arsenal allow Arteta add a new background staff to his already high earning group?, especially now that a new contract is on the table for him?.

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mostob:
Excellent comparison here I must admit. But you're ignoring the Jover angle which best conveys my point. Everyday, we see Arsenal coming up with different set piece styles. Why can't we have something like that in the attacking department too. An assistant coach doesn't need to leave before Arteta add another. Aside the sprinter who is coming to replace the doctor that's sacked, another guy (a conditioning and rehabilitation expert) is coming to join the team.

We won the league but one truth we must tell ourselves is that attacking wise, we underperformed. I am an ardent follower/reader of Billy Carpenter's articles. I read EBLs too. One thing both consistently say is that Arteta has been getting his attacking combination wrong because he sometimes misprofile the players. How about we bring in an expert to address this?

Lastly, I really respect you bringing in past figures from previous seasons but WE CAN ACTUALLY DO BETTER. The goal is to continually evolve and not to be satisfied.

ok, i get where you are going. But Jover has been working with Arteta since his man city days specifically for dead balls and cuesta was the main assistant. The same position cuesta occupied is the same position Heinze is in, the same job description, Heinze is not a defensive coach that was brought in to strengthen our defence, but Arteta's main assistant coach who also offers his ideas as a former manager too.

Our attack wasn't as potent as we expected and even Arteta knows better about that. There's a reason why all our signing speculations are about attackers. Heinze is not a defensive coach in the crew of Arteta but his second hand man and the person who shares tactical aspect of the game, team selection, match analysis, training sessions with him. As a former defender and manager it was the right choice choosing him to close the gap left by cuesta. If Cuesta didn't leave, there would have been no reason to get Heinze. For jover, he has been working only on dead balls since his man city days with Arteta.

mostob:
Well, I may not understand where you're coming from but it won't hurt to have someone bring fresh ideas into the team. When Arteta came in, he was able to stabilize the team (defensive and attacking) even with resources at his disposal.

Jover came in and our set piece improved. Heinze joined and our defence improved so much. We didn't collect any red card nor concede any penalty in EPL.

So if we have an attacking coach that will raise the level of our attack, is there any issue in that?

he can't be adding another person to the coaching crew. Heinze came in to replace Cuesta who left to be a manager not because Arsenal needed a defensive coach. He needed to replace the vacancy in his coaching screw. We conceded 29 goals in 2024 and 34 on 2025 because of the many red cards and referee decisions and this season we conceded 27 goals, two less than 2024. But you can't say that the indiscipline in the team wasn't improving for better every year before Heinze came in. Saying we need an attacking coach is just the same as saying this season's defence was just because of Heinze. He was instrumental but not the reason for not conceding penalties and red cards. Didn't we concede penalties in the champions league?, and even the pgmol had to save us from penalties and red cards this season sometimes.

BlueRayDick:
Personally, I feel we supposed don wrap up one or two signings before the world cup start o. I fear if some of our potential signings shine at the world cup, it will drive their value higher, and their current clubs will want to milk us dry.

I understand we have enough transfer budget to get our desired players in this transfer window owing to how well the club earned this past season, but then we need to be prudent in our spendings too. We need to get our business done ASAP, have the players ready for pre-season and be ready for the new season.

Even dirty spuds who escaped relegation have started getting busy in the market as soon as the season ended. To think we will be playing them as our first match of the season. I don't want surprises at all. I hope Berta will and his team will get busy in the market soonest.

most clubs understands that the world cup can change the price associated with their players, so they are dragging on that. I think only free transfers and players not going to the world cup are moving already. As a player, I no go even want to engage in club deals when world cup still dey start, I fit shine for world cup and negotiate better deal off it.

iamoyindamola:
Like you said the training pattern changed and got more intense
What if the players are getting injured because of this and the medics don't want to force early recovery. I read saliba is still having recurring back pain and only surgery can help him which he should have done a long ago.
Anyway next season we will know the impact of this decision

yes definitely next season we will know the impact of this decision.

mostob:
Brother Jover came in and set piece became bonus for us. We're labeled set piece FC. I can't forget that Saka miss against Liverpool. Proper set piece execution.

Heinze came in and our defence improved massively.

Arteta, abeg find an offensive coach. You're a manager. Not a coach.

i guess we need to sack Arteta and bring in that coach that broke Arsenal's epl record goals in 2024, that coach that his Arsenal team is first to score 80+ goals in two straight seasons 2023 and 2024, that coach that with the fastest Arsenal team to reach 200 epl goals, that coach with the highest number of goals scored in all competitions since 1930, that coach that his Arsenal team scored just 2 goals less in all competitions than Pep Guardiola great attack in 2025/2026 season.

Yeah, that coach.

Arteta dey try, make he just improve more next season.

Happiest birthday to Arsenal's best striker at the moment. King Cobra Kai. £60m down the drain they said, but Kai Havertz always scored again and again.

iamoyindamola:
Sacking the head of medics looks somehow
He didn't run our players to the ground na

i know the training pattern is usually extreme and requires a lot of work and running, but there are certain players whose injuries where reoccurring even without playing. Players like Norgard, Calafiori, Ben white, Odegaard and Timber. Everybody has to take responsibilities for their action. His job is to examine our players and give the best environmental for their recovery, but most times the time frame for injury returns never always be as he informs and the players ends up getting sidelined again.

dominique:
Have they given him another contract apart from the one year extension he was given last year? His contract runs out next year, I expect him to complete it and leave for free next season. Martinelli is attracting big spenders across Europe and Saudi, I expect the board to sell him this window and allow Trossard run out his contract

i doubt Arteta would let Martinelli go. His relentless and ability to cover tracks is so important for the team for him to go ahead of Trossard. Martinelli would just be another case of Luiz dias of Liverpool to bayern, our system limits him so much even though i am not taking the fact that he fuccks up sometimes away. I think Raphael Leao and kvaratshkelia are just another version of Martinelli, if we can bring out that attacking hunger in our players play fast attacking games, both Martinelli, madueke and Gyokeres will be hot next season.

Come to think of it, every thing they said it's our problem with winning the epl was the same thing we didn't do to win it.

They said we can't win without a striker that scores 20+ goals, and our striker scored the same range of goals as our previous forwards(13 - 15)
They said we can't win the epl if we don't win at Anfield and Etihad, we lost at the two venue and still won the league
They said set piece can't win us the league, we started and sealed the win with set piece.
They said we can't win with by relaying on defence, we started and won the league with 1:0 scoreline.
They said we can't win the league without improving our total points because city would be more deadly, and we won with less points than our previous title challenging seasons and still had 7 points more than city.

I just know with the belief and mentality in this team now, we will be up there with the biggest clubs again for a long time.

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yinkeys:
A Gabriel Jesus type of striker would be Julian Alvarez
Osimhen is a serious aerial threat & ultra high presser, we won’t be in so much low block pressure if we had Osimhen

bro na the same talk wey carry us go sign Gyokeres, you don forget?. Plus Osimhen is already injury prone not to talk of when he plays in epl and Arsenal setup that requires workload. His attitude is also another thing. At the moment kai is our best striker which is why we need another profile better than what he can bring. Alvarez is a better option but the amount involve might make us overlook him.