Is Arsenal’s £40 million asking price for Eddie Nketiah too high, and will a suitor be willing to pay it? That is a question that most people would ask after reading the recent news about the Hale End Graduate.
According to reports, Marseille’s new manager, Roberto De Zerbi, who last season was at Brighton, wants Nketiah to come and lead his assault next season. Marseille is reportedly willing to submit a £20 million bid to Arsenal in order to test their commitment to keeping the wantaway striker. According to Teamtalk, Arsenal will reject the deal, preferring a £40 million bid for the striker.
Surely Arsenal is asking a lot for a player who has only six goals and three assists in 37 games. Yes, the 24-year-old still has three years left on his £100k-per-week deal, but given his not-so-headline-grabbing stats, would someone pay £40 million for his services?
According to Transfermarkt, Nketiah is worth £25 million. I believe we can compromise and obtain up to £30 million for Nketiah, which is a favorable offer. It is no secret that the player wants to leave, and Arsenal, as a club, is eager to sell him. Given Nketiah’s status as an academy product, it goes without saying that the revenues from his sale will be considered pure profit for Arsenal.
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Nketiah is worth what others are willing to pay, so we will have to compromise. I doubt anyone will pay 40 million for Nketiah; a 1 dimensional poacher who is not clinical in front of goal.
Ask yourself, would you pay 40 million? 20-25 million seems more reasonable, but that’s just my opinion.
Agree. I do think he could be worth more but Arsenal has devalued him by the way we have and haven’t used him.
To be honest as you said it, Nketiah is worth what any potential buyer is willing to pay.
I wouldn’t have paid the amounts we paid for Rice, Havertz, White, Ramsdale, Jesus, Partey, Zinchecko, Vieira, etc. But Arsenal / Edu / Arteta they were worth that much for the plan they had for the club..
I wouldn’t have paid the amount the likes of Man United, City, Chelsea etc paid for the likes if Pogba, Grealish, Lukaku, Pepe, Mudryk etc. But they paid those fees because they thought it was worth it for the route they were trying to go as clubs.
So whatever any clubs is willing to pay and Arsenal okay with it will be what Nketiah is worth.
If we can get 30 million for Eddie Nketiah
You drive him to the air port
I would volunteer to drive him myself asap…
A problem with Arsenal and selling has been unrealistic valuations. As someone else has said, quite correctly, any player (or anything, come to that) is only worth what someone is prepared to pay.
Arsenal need, desperately need you could argue, to sell players in this window. A backlog of players to offload has been building up because of the failure to do so in previous windows.
With reports that Arsenal is intending to bring in three, perhaps more, players this summer creating space in the squad and headroom in the wage bill is paramount.
If Arsenal can get £30m for Eddie – or even somewhat less – I think they should take it and move on (quickly) because it’s very probably “take it or leave it” time and Arsenal can’t afford to leave it with no other offers in sight.
If we could get £30 million each for Eddie and Rhys, I would consider that very good business for the club.
We should consider that it seems MA doesn’t now see them as part of his project and the reported £100k a week salary their on, makes it very difficult for “smaller clubs” to think about signing them.
Good offer.
Sell him.
No questions.
Honestly 20m is more than fair. I’d be surprised if they went up from there but stranger things have happened. What will happen with his contract, though? Surely that would become an issue.
Yes!
God bless you@Goonster. I wonder why some arsenal fans doesn’t value their player, yet complain that the club is releasing players or selling players too cheap.
To be honest rice is not worth £100M yet we paid over. We had to, because we need him.
Should any team want Nkethia, or any other player let the team pay whatever value place on him.
Arsenal is no longer desperate to sell and with time our players will no longer go cheaply.
Nketiah’s stats are irrelevant as he barely started.
What is relevant is that he is English if a Prem League club wants him and so £30-40mn is reasonable
Outside of PL then £25-30mn is probably about right…if Marseilles opening jud is £20mn then likely get £25-30 if they really want him
Let’s see if Fulham Palace or another team like that from the Prem want / need a striker and also need to fulfill home.growm quota.
Same goes for Reiss….if we can get £50 -60m for both of them that’s good value !
And remember there is not much out there for clubs in middle / lower part of the league so might work for them.
Funny how when a player’s stats are rubbish stats suddenly don’t matter lol
If he started every game then stats matter…if he starts 5 or 6 games they don’t. Anyone who has played sport knows its not easy to play naturally if you know you have to do twice as good as others just to retain your spot and even then unlikely.
Ask Aaro. Ramsgate!
I think 168 games is enough chances
Nketiah should go on loan to Marseille instead if Arsenal want to sell him above 40M. By playing regularly , he will have a better valuation and more ready suitors who can pay that price. I don’;t see marseille paying even 30M now.
Please sign Watkins!! But will Aston Villa let him leave? Never!!!
Ramsdale
Guys, one sure thing IS that Marseille will Never afford a player for 30 millions. WE dont have the money and it would be the highest bid ever done By the club…
I don’t think Arsenal need or have to compromise anything. It’s early days in the window and I doubt the club is desperate to sell. Looking at the price for English or homegrown players, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for over £40 m .
Let’s look at a few examples. Former Arsenal youngster Omari Hutchinson just fetched £20m without any PL experience. Iwobi to Everton got us £28m. Liverpool got £19 m for a young Solanke back in 2019 when his output was not nearly as good as Nketiah currently.Basically £20m is the going rate for a young English prospect. Nketia has to be worth more given his experience and length of contract.
Premier League clubs can still come for Eddie and obviously can pay more. Like Balogun,it’s better to wait until better offers arrive. I mean Liverpool got £23.5 m for Rhian Brewster for crying out loud!!
I think Arsenal know there not getting 40 million
£30m, put the contract under their nose now, take it and pop the cork on the champagne