It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

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Pep trusts this squad of players and rightly so but can they do it for another season with the Euros only just out of the way. It's a huge ask and a freshening up of the squad would've been nice, but maybe the idea all along was to blood the likes of Mcatee, O'reilly, Bobb in more matches this season hopefully saving the club multi millions in the market. The gamble there though is can they deliver when given the chance
 
KennyG said:
Small club mentality this summer. McAtee and O’Rielly?…what a drop off.
Uncertainty with the manager, the charges? Whatever the factors, it will be the determining factor this season.
Europe is a write off and It is Arsenal’s title to lose.
Anyone with an other opinion is simply thinking with the heart.
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Not sure what you are thinking with
 
oldius said:
I can't really understand the desperate need to buy.

Ederson, Ortega, Carson = no keeper needed
Walker, Lewis, Akanji, Stones, Dias, Ake, Gvardiol = no defenders needed
Rodri, Kovacic, Nunes, DeBruyne, Foden, Bernardo, Grealish, O'Reilly, McAtee, Perrone = no central midfielders needed
Bobb, Doku, Savinho, = no wingers needed
Haaland

The only position, arguably, that we require is a back-up to Haaland. Given we are likely to play a false 9 in his absence, with a front line combination of Bobb, Doku, Savinho, Foden or DeBruyne, I don't see a centre forward of the highest calibre being willing to sit out game after game.

As for Rodri, similar. He isn't replaceable, so you rely on the combination of central midfielders we have.
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Perrone will leave on loan again, Nico will train full time for the first team but is too raw for a week in week out at this level, Mcatee will get minutes but won’t be in every matchday squad imo and Nunes will have a solution found by Mendes and the club imo as well. Bobb is the main one who will benefit this season but we can’t stand still as others aren’t? KDB picks up injuries at times throughout the season and is 33 so will need resting at times, Rodri will need breaks and we saw yesterday that Kova isn’t the answer there?
 
Keeper! said:
Bruno would cost well over 100M crazy money in this market.

Wharton is very raw and could he come into this team straight away? And I find it difficult to beleive he has the rumoured release clause mentioned.

FDJ for me would be outstanding in a Pep team but again would be want to come?

Naves raw and for me very overrated.

Has Tixki got one of his out of nowhere signings lined up?
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I think FDJ would come mate
 
If we’re not going to buy a DM then I imagine when Rodri isn’t available, we’ll see Kovacic and Bernardo as a double pivot, particularly in the bigger games.
 
richards30 said:
The wages thing has been done to death though mate? It’s was deferred wages due to Covid and not his actual wage? There was also talk that Barca would know the difference off the transfer fee to make it up for him? I think he would move to us now as the Barca move although romantic for him at the time has gone Tom tit now and the chance to work with Pep with our squad and fight for all trophies every season would be too good for him to turn down imo.
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obviosly barca would bite our hands to sell him, they have tried it for years to do it to rags. don't think i've ever seen frenkie saying that he would want a move, i believe he doesn't care about trophies that much tbh, it's all about the cash
 
striver said:
obviosly barca would bite our hands to sell him, they have tried it for years to do it to rags. don't think i've ever seen frenkie saying that he would want a move, i believe he doesn't care about trophies that much tbh, it's all about the cash
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I think he’s wants his deferred wages mate without question but from a footballing perspective he would join Pep in a heartbeat imo
 
KennyG said:
Small club mentality this summer. McAtee and O’Rielly?…what a drop off.
Uncertainty with the manager, the charges? Whatever the factors, it will be the determining factor this season.
Europe is a write off and It is Arsenal’s title to lose.
Anyone with an other opinion is simply thinking with the heart.
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Keeper! said:
There is not a player in the world at this time that could replace Rodri but that's not what we want, we need a player to compliment and also allow Rodri to get periods of rest.
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If the release clause of £50m for Zubimendi is true, I think he would be a decent option, but he appears to be off to the Dippers.
 
decmancity said:
Well of course we hope Rodri doesn't get injured but there is no one better than Kovacic who is joining to sit on the bench, surely that is obvious?

If Rodri is fit, he plays. Pep has made sure that everyone knows that.
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When we signed kova I was happy as I wanted him a couple of years before but he cannot cover for Rodri which was proven last year when we lost the games which Rodri didn’t play in . Kova is good in is own right .
 
decmancity said:
Frankie De Jong is going to become the new Mido in the future. He will be touted as a target for the next decade. He's no better than our starting midfielder, barely puts a run of games together when he is fit and will want huge wages.
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Like Joao Felix, people only want him because we were once linked with him like 5 years ago.
 
KennyG said:
Small club mentality this summer. McAtee and O’Rielly?…what a drop off.
Uncertainty with the manager, the charges? Whatever the factors, it will be the determining factor this season.
Europe is a write off and It is Arsenal’s title to lose.
Anyone with an other opinion is simply thinking with the heart.
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so if it goes tits up ,the reason it went tits up was because that was the reason, haha, tremendous


we haven't kicked a ball in anger yet, i hope the G in your name doesn't stand for gonads, because it sounds as if you actually don't have any and if you do they are very very small


relax.
 
richards30 said:
;-) fuck that mate, not even I’m that bad! lol. I just want the club to keep pushing on? We need to try and keep improving?
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By copying what Chelsea do?

Tell me what Chelsea has accomplished since "Buy for the sake buying" has been implemented for the past two years?
 
I don't think the quantity of players signed has been a problem. But the quality seems to have gone down. Just in the last 2 seasons we have signed 2 major flops; Nunes and Phillips. The quality coming in is lower than the quality going out (with a few exceptions).
 
Paul1970 said:
When we signed kova I was happy as I wanted him a couple of years before but he cannot cover for Rodri which was proven last year when we lost the games which Rodri didn’t play in . Kova is good in is own right .
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I think it is very difficult to judge those losses in that light.

Villa played us off the park, we just didn't show up at all that night, backed up by them then beating Arsenal.
Arsenal, last minute winner, pretty shit game all in and again we had several chances we didnt take.
Wolves, just one of those ridiculous games, nailed on red card for Hwang not given and he scores the winner.

I know the stats paint a different story but I dont think anyone other than Rodri could have made much difference.
 
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