The summer transfer window is here with us, and obviously Arsenal had a budget in mind for Mikel Arteta to work with. Last summer, it was claimed he had around £200 million to play around with. I reckon he’ll probably have the same transfer budget.
Let’s say you’re Arteta, and you have £200 million to spend. Which three players would you prioritise bringing on board this summer? If I were the Spaniard, I’d definitely consider going for Benjamin Sesko, Bruno Guimaraes, and Ferdi Kadioglu.
Why the 3? There’s talk that Arsenal wants Guimaraes to join for less than his £100 million release clause (which is open until the end of June), but it might be risky not to activate it. Newcastle probably won’t settle for anything less than £100 million come July; who knows, they could even ask for more?
As for Sesko, the 21-year-old definitely has a lot of potential. It’s unlikely RB Leipzig would let him go for anything less than his £55 million release clause. Arsenal, as reported over the weekend, has submitted a £47 million bid for his services, but it might not be enough because of the release clause.
As for Ferdi Kadioglu, it seemed like his deal would be pretty straightforward. According to reports, Arsenal had their bid of £17 million rejected for the Turkish fullback. We expect the club to return with an offer of £20 million or more.
Ultimately, for around £200 million, the trio will definitely bolster the three crucial positions that Arsenal needed to strengthen this summer.
Of course, Arsenal might have to close more than just those three deals to be at their best next season, but I think the rest of it should depend on how much they make from departures.
Oleksander Zinchenko, Jakub Kiwior, Emile Smith Rowe, and Eddie Nketiah are considered to be talented players. Arsenal has the potential to make a significant amount of money from their sales, possibly reaching £60 million or more. This could greatly contribute to funding other deals.
Who would you buy for Arsenal with a 200million transfer kitty?
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De jong – fofana – hato …no way sesko he is a clone of havertz and havertz is better.
Wouldn’t know enough to pick a striker
With 200million ,I would take
1. Osimhen for 110m
2. Ferdi K. for 25m or less
3. Desire Doue for 25m or less
With the balance ,If possible still add either of Nico Williams/Zubimendi/ Everton’s Onana
Desire should cost more than 25M if we’re being serious…north of 60M.
200 million is not enough for what I want. ideally:
100M – Guimares
110M – Osimehen
27M – Raya
8M – GK on loan to replace Ramsdale.
That totals £245M. Our sales should fetch us £180M.
I agree Joe, if arsenal is serious on winning any title next season, we need a proven top player on their respective position.
Sesko is a good player, but I reckon will need some time to develop. Might just as well go all in with Osimhen.
we will never get £180m for our cast offs, closer to half that
I could see this happening if Edu & MA are ruthless
with the following players that IMWO are simply
not the quality needed for Arsenals 2024/25
silverware ambition.
Ramsdale——£25M
Nkietah——£25M
ESR——£25M
Zinny—-£30M
Party—-£20M
Tierney—-£15M
Nelson—-£15M
Lokonga—-£15M
Biereth—-£10M
Patiino—-£10M
Tavares—-£5M
Viera—-£5M ( loan)
£200M right there and all @ realistic values
WTS if I had a voice in the transfer war room these
would be my preferred incomings.
Sesko—-£55M
Bakayoko—-£45M
X Simmons——£10M (loan)
Fofana—-£20M
Onana—-£60M
Kaidoglu—-£30M
Szczesny—-£3M
£223M spent, £23M net when factoring the above
sales.
“our sales should fetch £180M”
What???????????????? Never
I will use 150m pounds to land Vinicius Jr. People think it will be impossible but forgetting that the entrant of Mbappe and Endrick will affect his playing time.
I will use just 4m pounds to get Benfica B left full back, Rafael Rodrigues to be an understudy to Zinchenko. He is good. Then 27m pounds on ‘right footed Maradona ‘ in the person of Argentine Thiago Ezequiel Almada who will man our attacking midfield.
Saliba -like David Odogu of Wolfsburg will come in for 10m pounds to be an understudy to both Magalhaes and Saliba.
Last and not the least, Ajax youth goalkeeper, Charlie Setford, who is a wonder to behold will come in for 8m pounds.
“Understudy to Zinchenko”?. So he must be a very poor quality left back?
With Partey and Elneny leaving, I will get 2 defensive midfielders that are an upgrade to them, Sesko and a left back
100m on Guimaraes, 55m on Sesko,. 25m on Youssouf Fofana, 10m on Gk, and 10m on an experienced defender to help Saliba.
Am sorry,I will not go for three but two.Arsenal has two main positions that we need to strengthen and that is midfield and striking.We need a complete striker that can give us more than 40 goals/assists if we really need this Epl title and a defensive midfielder,a good replacement for Partey.So I will rather go for Gyokeres 100m and either Bruno Guimaeres or Joao Neves 100m.Other positions will depend on sales.And if we make sales I will then go for a left back,Jorrel Hato to replace Zinchenko and as a backup to Gabriel Magallaes.
“more than 40 goals/assists”…nice one
Wertz 90m and Olise 60m and fofana 23m.Raya 27m
Kadioglu 20
Cesko 55
Johan Bakayoko 40
Guamarez 80
1 or two free transfers
I am inclined to trust and accept what MA and Edu will
bring in recruitment, but Guimarez is a must to our middle, Hato to our defence and an insider for our attack!!
£105m Osimhen
£52m Zubimendi
£27m Raya
£0 Ryan (or promote Hein)
Not sure what to do with the last £16m
Bruno and Zubimendi are Unrealistic.
Scenario 1:
Pending no major sales, I’d go for;
Osimhen (60M + ESR)
Fofana (30M)
Another Backup CB (30M)
Raya (27M)
Nwaneri (FREE)
Skelly (FREE)
Total: 157M
Scenario 2:
Pending Major Exits, I’d add;
Gabriel Jesus (Sesko 55M)
Zinchenko (Reull Walters FREE)
Partey (Onana 60M)
Ramsdale (Karl Hein FREE)
Nketiah + Nelson (Rashford/Olise 60M)
Total: 175M (+100M from Sales).
Solid presentation.
I’d add Desire Doue for 60M but I’d rather go for Tchoumeni.
Maybe promote Duberry too. Skelly might need a loan, and not a promotion.
more realistic than osihmen
For £200m I’d buy Wirtz (£140m) and Frenkie (£60m).
Then sell ESR (£30m), Nketiah (£30m), Ramsdale (£30m), Reiss (£10m), Kiwior (£20m), Lokonga, Patino, Tavares, Biereth (for a combined fee of £15m) for a another £135m.
Get Tierney back in the squad, promote Nwaneri, sign Colwill (£50m) as backup to Gabriel and sign Soulé/Pedro Neto as backup for Saka (£45m).
Next season go all in for Isak/Zirkzee if Jesus keeps struggling.
Adding Frenkie would allow Rice to play as our left 8 and would also allow Odegaard to focus less on build up. I also think we lack creativity. With the adding of Wirtz from the left hand side, we solve the issue of being too reliable on Odegaard.
Playing with Wirtz or Trossard on the left limits our width there. That problem will also be solved by getting Tierney back, who offers more widt with his overlapping runs. It also adds a different type of option on our left hand side, to mix things up a bit
I forgot to add a backup goalie. Sign Bijlow/Ramaj/Steele/Valles for around £15m which can be funded by selling Partey for £15m