What are the odds of Arsenal making a Marquee signing before transfer deadline day.
The gunners have had a modest transfer window so far with only Riccardo Calafiori being brought in for any substantial amount, Raya also technically joined with his transfer made permanent, but that was expected after a very good debut season at the club.
Make no mistake, we have been linked with a lot of players especially strikers, given our early pursuit and failure to land Sësko, it is however not the shear amount of links that count rather the desire and willingness from the club to land key targets.
Looking at our opening game of the season against Wolves, there’s no doubt that more could be added to further make the team even stronger, in the midfield and attack particularly. Looking at the strength in depth of our rivals, it would be a statement of intent from us to go all out and make a very big move happen at the club, sometimes i just marvel at the absolute absurdity of our biggest rivals’ (Man city) strength in depth but sadly that’s what we’re up against, therefore making a Marquee signing in the forward area particularly would only not improve our attack, but also help us sustain another title push.
Victor Osimhen, Ivan Toney and Leroy Sane are some of the players linked with making move to North London, and considering their respective situations at the clubs they are it is therefore highly likely that if we wanted to make a move happen we will. However looking at the gunners transfer strategy it is highly unlikely we see a major transfer coming in aside from the imminent arrival of Mikel Merino.
From the outside looking in there are things that may be obscured, but considering the potential of this group of players it is thereby only sensible for us to keep faith, cross our fingers and hope for the best.
Given the the transfer window closes in just under two weeks, are there any chances of Arsenal spending big late in the window?
KENNETH BENJAMIN
Just sign players that we actually need. Bargain basement is far more preferable than wasting millions on “marquee” misfits.
12 days is a long time in a transfer window. Arteta said recently that there are certain areas in the squad/team that he wants to improve during this window. And we are not in financial trouble, so I expect some more business after Merino. They ptobably just want to sell players like Eddie and Nelson first. We really need better squad depth, and there are many players that can fill that purpose. Hopefully they already have a plan in motion behind the scenes.
It’s not that long really if you’ve yet to enter negotiations for a player – particularly at the speed Arsenal appear to move at.
Remember, in many cases the selling club won’t sell until they’ve a replacement. That may be a player already at the club of course but if not, they will need to enter the market themselves so you’ve two sets of negotiations (both with potential hitches etc.) on the go against a shrinking deadline.
Arsenal (still) haven’t completed the purchase of Merino yet because his club are playing hard ball over the fee. I suspect they are doing that because they know that Arsenal probably couldn’t institute an alternative “Plan B” before the window closes.
Likewise, potential buyers for Eddie are dropping away – Brighton are the latest, following Bournemouth and Olympic Marseille – all looking elsewhere for strikers as Eddie is obviously overpriced.
For both buying and selling I think Arsenal needs to get a move on or they’ll find there’s little or no room left before 30 August. They’ve possibly a player to sign (assuming Merino does) and several yet to sell.
I hope hope Arsenal have a Plan B for the Merino deal. It’s dragging too long for my liking. It may just collapse on our heads given the apparent hard stance of Real Sociedad
I believe the Merino deal may be one of those dominoes that just hasn’t fallen yet because it’s waiting for other ones to fall first. I’m curious to know what those other dominoes may be (e.g. Partey’s situation?). There really doesn’t seem to be any other explanation for the delay other than perhaps as you say a lack of positive negotiation with RS even though various sources seem to believe they are very close.