Arsenal broke their transfer record to sign Declan Rice last summer, and they also invested heavily in Kai Havertz and other players.
They spent so much that they couldn’t complete a transfer for David Raya immediately, so he joined them on loan.
The club remains committed to ensuring they sign the best players available for any role they want to strengthen.
Many players have been linked with a move to Arsenal in this transfer window, and some of them are more than good enough to improve the team.
However, the better the player, the more expensive they are, and the Gunners may have to break their transfer record again to sign some of them.
That is unlikely to happen, as a report on Football London claims Mikel Arteta’s side does not want to make a big-money purchase.
After spending so much last season, the report claims Arsenal wants to focus on signing players who will be alternatives to their main stars and will not cost too much money.
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We do not have the luxury of splashing the cash on very expensive players and we can understand why.
We already have a good team and a few average players could improve our chance of success.
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What’s the point on this comment, Daveg? We aren’t going to go for either of these players or be able to afford them if we did. And how exactly do you propose they fit into our system?
I think Arsenal need to make one marquee signing every year for a number of reasons
Motivate the fans
Keep other players on their toes
Commercially re shirt sales etc
To ensure other teams know we are not standing still
Good news I think is that with recent good form we have seen the squads valuation soar…so we can keep selling squad players for good money to fund the marquee signing
Eg ESR (£30m) Vieria (25 to 30) Partey (25 or more to Saudi) And Nketiah (30 to 40) could raise £100mn+ to fund eg Osimhen Vlahovic Gorkeres etc
Wrong reasons. As long as Arteta sees ST profile most required, I agree buying a star.
Also, Partey will fetch 10mil max as he is not going to Arabia. Vieria / ESR / Nketiah could have fetched more – they will not, because our manager did not even trust them to play 1k minutes. His job is to max value of squad, so we can do such divestments to get top players in
It all depends on departures.
100% right my friend and we shouldn’t stop with one Striker get Two.
We have a squad capable of winning the league but the coach doesn’t not fully utilize the whole set of players. We have failed the last 2 seasons when we had every chance to win the league. A team may fail to reach its full potential because of their coach. IMO the opposition has been very poor the past 3 seasons with the traditionally strong teams playing very poorly. You really struggle to get outstanding coaches and players outside Arsenal, Liverpool, City, and Villa.
Kieran Tierney is our best left back since Monreal but surprisingly Arteta doesn’t like him and frustratingly his replacement is way below the levels of a decent defender. Our defense could have been better had we used proper left back. Zinchenko is not good enough for the left back position and also can not dislodge anyone from our midfield. He is just good enough to be a squad player.
The past season we have seen a lot of players loosing form and confidence because they sit on the bench for too long a period. As long as the coach doesn’t fully utilize his whole squad we will not achieve anything big.
Sometimes it’s good just to use a player in his position and if there is an injury or suspension replace him with a direct replacement without unnecessary adjustment to a winning setup. Against Villa Arteta used Havertz in midfield instead of playing Elneny as a dm leaving Havertz to continue where he was thriving.
It will be very unfortunate if this team continues to have disappointing seasons. Fact of the matter is that the team Arteta inherited from Emery won the FA cup with players fans have continuously mocked on this platform eg Rob Holding who has FA cup medals to his name. A team is as good as the competitions it has won. Our report cards have been bad as in football competitions there is no joy for runner up. Man Utd have added to their FA cup statistics whilst we have zero additions to any cups since the covid season when we won the FA cup. Every season we are competing in four cups and we are not achieving anything. Let’s stop glorifying failure. The team needs to win cups and if the coach continuously fails to do se he must go as he has been supported in every way possible by the owners.
Players like ESR, Nelson, Vieira, and Nketiah must be having a good number of games and help the team. Why does the coach renew contracts and sign players if he just want to use certain players even when they are tired or off form.
You are speaking a lot of sense and truth in there. Sadly sense, logic, truth, facts are on their way to extinction in this modern world.
Twisting, fake news, lying, gaslightng, and the biggest of all double standards are the order of the day.
What exactly do you fans want from Arteta? You still blame him for rotating against Villa, which according to some fans, is the reason we lost the league to Man City. Same reason Arteta has refused to change anything or use some players.
You still want him to utilize the whole squad? SMH
They have been like this all throughout Arteta’s tenure.
Some of what you have written has some merit. However, the lack of context reduces the strength of your exposition. Some of the opposition in the PL have not been quite as strong as they have been in previous years. However, teams like Newcastle and Aston VIlla have risen to be significant threat even if it has been for just one season. MC remain arguably the strongest team team the PL has ever seen.
KT is a good traditional LB but even he has had his challenges when up against the very best. Unfortunately, he is unable to play the inverted LB role preferred in Arteta’s set up. In addition, he is susceptible to injuries which means that in order to keep him and put him back in the team we would have to play somewhat different systems and have another similar rotational player to deputise when he is unavailable.
The “whole squad” argument is credible only if we can stay in all competitions long enough and the bench players can play to a similar level whenever they are called upon. From what I have seen the biggest concern is that the bench players are generally at a lower level in some aspects of their game.
The Arsenal team has progressed year on year and it is really disingenuous not to acknowledge this even if there is to be criticism of the lack of trophies. Arsenal play very good progressive football and in many respects are amongst the best balanced teams in the world. We have young exciting players and are well set to challenge for years to come.
A number of fans have, rather disappointingly, kept referring to Arteta winning the FA cup with another manager’s team. What Arteta demonstrated at the time was the tactical flexibility needed to win one off games against top level opposition. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to repeat this since. There are likely to be a number of reasons for this; this requires better understanding and analysis than just suggesting that the manager has to go.
The players you have cited have not managed to reach the levels required for various reasons. As a result some people have suggested they will need to be replaced. Inevitably if they cannot improve their outputs this will be next step. However, it is important to consider that any transfer will have financial and other consequences.
If we could sell Havertz, now that he’s much improved, and buy a WAY BETTER CF (a significant improvement on Havertz), then that would be the best outcome in my opinion. Now before Havertz fans start frothing in anger, I’m not saying he is poor, I’m just pointing out that he is still not the top CF we need to compete with City. I feel gratitude for his goals that helped us this season, but I also acknowledge that some of his wastage hurt us e.g against Villa. If we can recoup part of the 65M and do away with the 330k p/w from the wage bill, we should comfortably make another big money signing who would improve the team tremendously.
While he is not Mbappe or Salah, and I still think he is worth half his salary and fee, he has proven himself useful to this team.
And if he continues where he left off, he will play a big part in our success, that is if Arteta is not Pochetino 2.0!
@HH, let go of Havertz salary, the money is not coming directly from your pocket. Give it a rest already
In all the games we lost or drew, we still had good chances created that ended up being wasted. Imagine a scenario where we have an efficient striker. We would win the league with games to go and possibly even unbeaten.
That’s my point. Our major missing puzzle at the moment is the CF position. If we improve on it significantly, we will beat Man City. Pep is still coming for a 5 consecutive EPL. He’ll come back better and we need to be at our very best.
He did more than just been a striker, his contribution, his defensive contributions and crucial goals cant be over looked, he also fits into Arteta’s patten so well. we cant sell him instead the club can buy a striker and use him as a supporting striker
As I already said, he did a lot. But we need someone who burries clear chances and some half chances too. We create so many chances that we can potentially win all matches in a season if only we have a top CF. At the moment, most of those chances are wasted. That’s why I think our main area of improvement should be the CF position